Skin Wars (2014–…): Season 3, Episode 2 - Not All Fun & Games - full transcript
- In the intense world
- of competitive body painting,
you can either keep your cool
or turn up the heat.
- It's a sizzling
season three of "Skin Wars."
The art of body painting
is more powerful than ever.
12 of the most talented artists
from around the world
will push themselves
week after week...
- You painted your heart out.
- Yeah!
- Proving who is brilliant
- with a brush...
- Yeah!
- Just amazing.
- Loved it.
- I came here to win.
- Oh!
- And who can't handle
- the pressure.
- I'm freaking out.
- What?
- Wow.
- It's not fair.
- How dare you disgrace
this competition
with your bull****!
- Do you want
to leave the competition?
In the end,
the winner takes all,
$100,000...
- 100,000 Gs, baby.
- And the ultimate title
of "Skin Wars" champion.
- We walk in the workroom
and we see this giant book.
- I don't know what's inside of it
- or what--
- how it's gonna play out,
- but whatever
they're gonna throw at me,
I'm ready to take it.
- Hello, painters.
Hello.
- Congratulations
on surviving the first week.
- Whoo!
- Ahh!
- Today we want you to embrace
your inner child
because this challenge
is all about fairy tales.
Ru?
- Once upon a time
in an enchanted
and colorful land
lived 12 talented painters.
They faced
many difficult challenges
that put their skills
and creativity to the test.
- One by one,
the painters were sent home
until the winner was crowned
"Skin Wars" champion
and lived colorfully
ever after.
- Ooh, I can't wait to see
how this story ends.
- You and me both.
- In this challenge,
you will reimagine
a classic fairy tale
by bringing it
into the 21st century.
- Let your imagination
run wild
as you modernize
these classic tales.
- You will have to create a
head-to-toe front-only painting
of your reimagined fairy tale
in only three hours.
- Oh.
- Here are a few things
to help fire up
your imagination.
- There are 11 stories
- to choose from...
- Nice.
- And each story
has a corresponding item
to serve as inspiration.
- I like the big apple.
- Oh, my God.
- When I pick the brush
- with our name on it,
you'll select the item
that goes with the story
you want to paint.
- Brittney, please pick
- your fairy tale.
- Oh, yay.
- I didn't have
- my daily fruits today,
so I'm gonna go
with "Snow White."
- Shelley.
- Yay.
"Alice's Adventures
in Wonderland."
- Kyera.
- Yes!
"Beauty and the Beast."
Aww.
- Alison.
- "Cinderella."
- Tiffany.
- "Peter and Wendy."
- Rick.
- Fairy tales for me were not
something I grew up with.
Yup.
- I get the shield
- with the sword,
and I have no clue what it is.
What is this?
- Turns out to be
- it's "Hercules."
- Jess.
- "Little Red Riding Hood."
- Michael.
- I am a nudist.
I'm totally that nude Mowgli
in the forest,
- so I looked at the tiger,
- and I was like,
- "I have to be
- 'The Jungle Book.'"
"The Jungle Book."
- Of course.
- Otto.
- "Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
- Hans.
- "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."
- And Luis.
- I got "Pinocchio."
- Are y'all happy
with your fairy tales?
- Yeah!
- Good.
The winner
will get an advantage
in the concept challenge,
so make sure
you do your best work
in the three hours you have
to complete this challenge.
Your time starts... now.
Go, go.
- I don't know what
- I'm gonna use for this one,
- so I'm just gonna
- take everything.
- Where's the little
- spray bottle, guys?
- Is this gonna be easy?
No, it's not gonna be easy.
- My name is Otto.
- I am 38 years old,
and I'm from
Winneconne, Wisconsin.
I'm very excited
- that this is gonna be
- a fairy tale challenge.
I grew up listening
to all sorts of fairy tales.
I am a single father,
and me and my daughter,
we have our fairy tale nights,
- so I love just being able
- to read 'em
- and gives her more
- and more ideas,
and it gives her some ideas
to build her creativity off of.
- Haven't read this story
- to my daughter yet, but one--
one of these years when we're
sitting around a bonfire,
we'll see what we can do.
We didn't even--
I haven't glued your underwear.
- I got stuck, luckily,
- with "Pinocchio"
- 'cause that's the story
- I know the best,
so I knew
that's what I wanted.
- I know Robin
- doesn't like cartoony,
so I didn't want to go 2-D,
so I put my own twist to it,
make kind of, like,
a 3-D cartoon of myself
to incorporate the puppet.
To get a 3-D illusion,
- it's all about working
- with depth.
Looks kind of plain,
but I like it.
- Well, we're gonna
- be doing "Hercules."
- My name is Rick.
- I'm 20 years old,
and I'm from El Paso, Texas.
I'm the youngest competitor
ever in "Skin Wars,"
and I ain't scared.
- It messes
- with everybody's head.
They think, like,
they're better than me,
so I'll just keep playing
the game.
It's looking good already.
- Wow, it looks like
the god of storms.
My name is Shelley Wapniak.
I am 33, and I am
from Brooklyn, New York.
- Primarily I'm a birthday party
- entertainer.
I do balloon twisting
and body painting.
I am obsessed
with body painting.
I love it so much.
- I would say that I was
- bubbly, energetic.
Gonna bring this to life.
I wear my emotions
on my sleeve, on my face.
- Yeah, I don't really
- hide much.
- My name is Brittney.
I'm 28 years old,
- and I'm from
- Broussard, Louisiana.
I have been painting
all my life.
When I was eight years old,
my father was put in prison,
and I would draw to escape
from all of the emotion.
I would try and create
my own imaginative world
that was happy
and took my mind off
of what was actually
going on at the time.
Fairy tales do come true.
- You just don't even know.
- The plot may thicken.
- Guys, we're halfway through!
An hour and 30 minutes left!
- My fairy tale
is "The Wizard of Oz."
Instead of her following
the--the yellow brick road,
she's gonna be walking
the stars
of Hollywood Boulevard.
My name's Hans.
- I'm from Los Angeles,
- California.
I first got
into body painting in 1997.
I started working
with designers, runway models,
music videos.
- My strategy
- for the overall competition
is to let people think
that maybe I'm not that good.
When the time is right,
I'm gonna swoop in.
Okay, you can step down now.
- I'm Jess.
- I'm 24.
I'm from Sydney, Australia,
and I am full-time body painter.
Last year I ranked fourth
- at the World
- Bodypainting Festival,
so I'm used to competition.
- When I get
- "Little Red Riding Hood"
- and I know I have
- to modernize it,
- my brain's going
- on overdrive just trying
- to kind of come up
- with as many ideas as possible,
and the first one really
that sticks is cyberstalking.
- Stand, like,
- straight onto that leg.
- Hey, y'all,
we got 30 minutes to go!
- Oh, my God.
- Is anyone else freaking out?
- Oh, my gosh!
- Whew!
- One minute!
- All right, painters,
time's up, tools down.
Hi, Tiffany.
- Hey.
- So you had
- "Peter and Wendy"...
- Yes, I did, yes.
- Also known as "Peter Pan."
- Hook is a dictator
that likes to take over
and use all the resources up,
and so here's combat Tink
over here,
and she's ready to, like,
take on the dictator Hook.
So you can--
she can move her arm,
and she moves Hook,
- so it gives--gives him
- a little bit of character.
- Can we see some movement?
- You have to say, "Arr!"
Arr!
- Okay, well,
- thank you, Tiffany.
- Thank you so much, you guys.
- So my story starts outs
with a little girl,
and she is dragged
to a really boring tea party.
- I wanted something
- vibrant and bright
- that has lots
- of vibrant psychedelic colors.
- And the model
is the little girl?
- I actually wanted to stay
- away from depicting characters.
- So is this--
- this is not a white rabbit?
- This is actually
the dormouse...
- The dormouse.
- Coming out of the teakettle.
- Oh, I see.
So her upper body is a teapot.
- Yes.
- Oh, I see.
Oh, she's a little teapot.
- Okay.
- Not short or stout.
- Okay.
- But no little girl here.
- Right.
- Hey, Rick.
- Hey, how's it going?
- So you picked "Hercules."
- Yeah.
- Will you tell us your story?
- Um, uh, well,
I don't really have a story...
- but I decided to work
- with her arms,
so that it would be
Hercules' arm,
- and then holding the sword
- would just make it
come to life in a way.
Be like...
- Oh, yeah.
This is really
wonderfully painted.
- Yeah.
- I'm just wondering
what makes this modern.
- I would say definitely
- the style.
- It's more of a new fashion type
- of way.
- I'd love for the painting
to speak for itself.
- That's definitely something
- I should have done.
- Hello.
- Hi, Luis.
- Hello. Hey.
- So you got "Pinocchio."
- Yup.
- I made myself into a puppet.
There's this fairy
that made the dream come true
of me being on here.
My friends and family
will be cheering me on.
Nowadays everything's in 3-D.
That's why I put, like,
the depth of the hand
kind of, you know, reaching out.
- So you had
- "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
- It's a love story
gone wrong.
The story goes
we got Ichabod Crane,
and we got Bones Boon.
Here they have
the eternal battle for the girl,
and the next morning
all you see
are shards of the pumpkin,
and Ichabod
was mysteriously vanished.
- You know,
- this is almost reading to me
like a comic book
of the whole story.
Um, where's your own
modern twist on it?
- That is the modern twist.
- Kind of like a graphic novel.
- It's your modern twist?
- Graphic novel.
- So "Little Red Riding Hood"
is a story
about essentially a loss
of innocence,
but in modern day times
the predators don't hide
in the forest.
- They're hiding
- on the Internet.
- Ooh.
Spooky.
What about those panels there?
- Think of it as
- like browser windows,
- so we've got
- a little mouse here.
- She's, like, kind of clicking
- between them,
so think of them as like
profile photos or something.
- So "The Jungle Book"
is a story about
an Indian boy named Mowgli.
Modernism is taking over
everything that's natural.
- And where's the modernism
represented on the model?
- I wanted to capture how
everything is sort of a grid
and structured
with this sort of silver,
and then nature is just, like,
creeping through all of that.
- This is Dorothy's
- modern travels
to the Emerald City,
which is Hollywood.
- My interpretation
- of the yellow brick road
- is the--the Hollywood...
- Walk of Fame.
- Walk of Fame, yeah.
- Oh, Walk of Fame.
- I have to say this is one
- of the most fully realized
paintings that we've seen
from you.
- We're finally seeing
- the highlights,
the shadows, you know.
Things are popping.
- We're getting to see
- some of your realism.
- Thank you so much.
- So expressive.
- So many stories.
- Oh, yeah.
I know, right?
- Jess's painting was maybe one
- of the only ones in the room
- that I didn't need
- an explanation.
- The focal point, though,
seemed to be grandma's house.
That was an odd choice.
Luis is just adorable,
and his painting was adorable.
Depicting himself as Pinocchio
I thought was really smart,
and it was fun,
and it was well done.
- Yes.
- I think a good attempt
- at updating the story
- was Tiffany.
I liked her take, and it was
beautifully painted.
- Beautiful painting.
- I just wish, though,
that I got that story
from the painting
more than just her
telling it to us.
- Right.
- How about Hans?
- I loved
the Cowardly Lion's face.
- He had a little highlight
at the tip of the nose.
- Yup, I liked that.
- Beautifully painted.
- Okay, judges,
- have you made your decision?
- Yes.
- Yeah.
- All right,
- let's go tell 'em.
- All right.
- Painters,
you've had three hours
to complete your head-to-toe
fairy tale inspired painting.
Now it's time to let you know
who the top three painters are.
Tiffany...
Jess...
and Luis.
- Oh.
- Yay.
- Well, are you ready
to hear who the winner is?
Yes.
- The winner
of this challenge is...
- I'm thinking to myself,
"Tiffany, you're gonna win.
Tiffany, you're gonna win."
I got this.
- Painters,
you've had three hours
to complete your head-to-toe
fairy tale inspired painting.
- Tiffany, your painting
was gorgeous and just bam.
Hit it with your creativity
and your technique.
It's pretty amazing.
- Jess, from the moment
I saw your painting,
I got "Little Red Riding Hood"
in cyberspace right away.
Luis, you really put
a lot of yourself
into your fairy tale.
- Literally.
- It was very fun
and childlike.
Bravo.
- Thank you very much.
- You all did a great job
reimagining these fairy tales,
but there is one painter
who has the best ending
to their story,
and the winner
of this challenge is...
- Jess.
- Congratulations.
You're the winner.
- Aww!
- My piece was definitely
the best by far,
so I knew I was gonna win.
- Congratulations, Jess.
You will soon find out
about your advantage
in the next round.
- You ready to hear
- about your next challenge?
Yes.
- Today you had some fun
- and embraced your inner child,
but tomorrow might not all
be fun and games...
or will it?
I'd love to tell you more,
but you'll just have
to wait to find out.
- See you tomorrow.
Bye.
- Leave us hanging.
- Don't do that.
- Good morning.
- He say, "Whoo!"
- Since I am a nudist,
I'm very confident,
and that's incredibly important
in this competition.
- Seriously?
Dude, put something on.
- Such a merman.
- So graceful.
- It's annoying.
He knows when he's naked
not to get around me.
- Personally,
- I definitely would not
be walking around bare naked.
It's really gross.
- Ew.
- Aww.
- For our concept challenge,
we walk into a toy store.
Like, a kid's
magical kingdom right there.
- All I keep doing
- is looking around
- and seeing all of the things
- that I want to play with,
but I have no idea
what's going on just yet.
- Hello, painters.
Hi.
- Yesterday you embraced
your inner child
by reimagining
classic fairy tales,
and today we wanted
to reward your inner child
- by bringing you
- to a toy store.
- All right.
- Nice.
- Woo-hoo!
- But you didn't
- come here to play.
You came here to paint.
Today you'll be
blending your models
into this toy store,
making them seamlessly
disappear.
- What do you think about that?
- Whoo!
- Ready for it.
- Ready.
- Ready for it?
- Yes.
- There are 11 different areas
in this toy store,
one for each of you.
- This is one of the most fun
environments possible,
but this will also be one of
the most difficult challenges.
Remember that color matching
is vital.
- This is
- about fooling the eye.
Your attention to detail
and picking a creative pose
are what will help you win
this challenge.
- From a modeling standpoint,
take into consideration
the model's comfort level.
Locking the knees is no joke.
We've had painters
and models drop like flies
from locking knees, so be
careful with your model's pose.
You'll have a video camera
- and a monitor
- at each of your stations
- to refer to
- throughout the challenge,
and you'll have four hours
to get it done.
What?
- Jess, since you won
the first challenge,
you get first pick
of your area in the store.
- Okay, awesome.
- The rest of you
- will pick your areas
when I start the challenge.
Good luck, everyone.
Jess, you can choose
your area... now.
- So many toys.
I'm gonna pick board games.
- I've never done camouflage
- before,
so I pick the board games
- because I figure
- everything's flat
- and so there won't be a lot
- of shiny things to deal with.
- Okay, everybody, you ready?
Your time starts now!
Pick your spots!
- Ah-ha-ha!
- Got mine!
- I got beach toys!
- I get the beach scene.
- It's right there.
Bold colors, primary colors,
big objects.
- I had my eye set out
on those beach balls
because they're
a little bit easier...
- Whoo! Long Beach!
- But of course Shelley
gets the station.
- I've got this.
- Oh!
- Uh, I'm coming.
- I'm coming.
Aww.
Everyone's got a station,
and I'm just searching
for what's left.
Ah!
And then there it is.
This one's mine.
I'll take it.
The holy wall of dolls.
I've got straight lines.
I've got doll faces
that I have to do.
This is gonna be
a tough challenge for me.
It sucks.
Hi.
How are you, love?
- Hello.
- Excuse me.
- I'm gonna
- have you take that off.
- Yeah, that's super--that's--
you're so sexy.
Damn.
Camouflage is what I do,
and I do it well.
It's really important
to have a creative pose,
so I choose a pose
for my model that isn't
the most convenient,
but it's ambitious
and it has a wow effect,
so she just has to hold it.
- You're very patient.
- Otto.
- What's that?
- How's your model doing?
- So far, so good.
- Awesome.
- I need to be an owl right now.
- I need to have eyes
- in the back of my head
watching this monitor
and getting my model painted.
That shoulder's back.
- I started getting
- into body painting
when I was in high school,
so I had to learn camouflage
the hard way.
I didn't have the tools
that I do here.
I've never worked
with a monitor and the camera,
and my color palette
was very limited,
but now I have every color
that I want,
so I'm taking advantage
of that.
Nice.
- Think maybe twist away
a little bit.
- Like this?
- Perfect.
- I think I need you
- to sit still
for the rest of it, yeah,
so just stay like that.
- Michael is just super harsh
on his model.
I feel bad for her.
- I need you
- to stay still 'cause,
- you know, we have three hours
- at this point.
- I think it's 'cause I'm,
like, stretched and can't move.
- We're about an hour into it,
and she's like,
"I can't hold this pose."
It's probably 'cause
your knees are locked, right?
It's gonna be a long ride.
- I look over at Michael.
She's got a pretty
complicated pose to do.
He locks her knees,
and so this could be really,
really bad.
- You're gonna have
- to keep it up.
Can you do it?
- I don't think so.
- It's not working.
I have to reposition her.
Let's hope that this works.
The entire first hour passes.
I lose all of that time,
all of that effort,
and I have to start over.
I'm nervous.
- You're gonna have
- to keep it up.
- We were told,
- "Don't lock your knees.
Keep your model comfortable."
Michael did not listen,
and it cost him.
- Perfect.
Okay, paint.
- I'm feeling
- very confident right now.
- I feel good.
- I've done camo before.
- Whoa!
- Where is she, Hans?
Whoo!
Damn, man.
You're killing it.
- I'm ahead of schedule
- right now.
I'm feeling good,
so there's zero issues.
- Getting there.
- Whew!
- I'm so sorry.
Can we pause for a second?
- What?
- What's going on?
So the second position
didn't make her feel better.
- I'm like, "****!
- What am I gonna do?"
Oh, my God.
I've done two poses,
and she can't get up.
I **** up in the beginning.
Her knees were locked,
and now I have to suffer
the consequences.
I lose all of that time,
all of that effort.
My entire soul just,
like, darkens.
****.
- Oh, my God.
Nothing's working out
for me today.
I **** up in the beginning.
Her knees were locked,
and now I have to suffer
the consequences.
I've done two poses,
and she can't get up.
- She's sitting on the floor,
- and I'm like,
"Something needs to happen."
- ****.
- Rest on this little guy.
So I-I start over.
I get a **** teddy bear,
and I'm like, "Listen,
just rest on this teddy bear,
and I'm gonna paint you
exactly as you are."
Okay, we're doing this.
- Are you ready?
- Are you comfortable?
I start painting again,
and I only have, like,
- an hour and a half,
- and I'm just like,
"Ugh, this **** sucks."
I'm really **** amazing
at this, and I can't show it.
- Guys, one hour left!
- No!
- Whatever.
- Make it work, okay.
I'm like, "Oh, my God."
I have no time to do
all these doll faces.
Why are there so many faces?
They make me want to throw up.
Ew.
- I think there's just
no way to do this.
I tried putting in
these straight lines
with the grating,
and that is just
not happening for me.
- Why do bodies
- have to have curves?
The grating across her chest
here is the hardest
because it has to line up
with the breast behind,
- and so I'm drawing part
- of a line here
and part of a line here,
and it is just, like,
messing with my brain.
- It's getting down
to the wire now.
- Hmm, it's coming together
slowly.
- Nope, get up.
- Sit down.
- Ohh!
Oh, my, my, my.
Ahh!
- It's a rough position
that I put her in.
I have her standing
up and down,
- you know, trying
- to stretch out her legs
- and trying
- to stretch everything out,
but there's no way
I can change it,
so I feel terrible.
- Sitting is pretty cool.
- It wasn't that bad.
It was, I know.
- Want to switch places?
- Nope.
- I'm behind everybody.
I wanted to avoid lots
of tiny little details,
thinking that bigger,
bolder shapes
would be easier to do.
Ha-ha, silly me.
I didn't think this through.
Okay, something shifted.
Your arm.
Okay, something's wrong.
Why is this bending?
Something's not right anymore.
- Keep your head
- where it's supposed to be.
- Can you get in position
- so I know what I'm doing?
Put your arm in position.
I am struggling with my model
shifting and moving around,
and I am struggling with
getting things to reline up...
- Lift your foot up.
- Lift it up.
- So I'm getting
- really stressed out.
- What is happening?
- Why is this arm not right?
- No, why aren't you lined up
- with the--
with this thing anymore?
- I love Shelley,
- but the energy
that she is putting off
is not the best.
- Oh, ****.
Everything's off now.
Oh, ****.
- All I hear is her cursing
- the whole time
and, you know, kind of fussing
back and forth with her model.
- You got it, Shelley.
- You got it.
Just work, girl, work.
Don't--don't even talk.
- Just work.
- Holy **** crap.
- I'm never gonna get
- this done in time.
- Five minutes left!
- All right, painters,
- time's up!
Put your tools down!
- It's time to take
- your final photos,
and I'll see you over
at the elimination stage.
Good luck!
- I lined everything up
the best that I can,
but get her up and down
every five or ten minutes,
all those lines
completely change.
I'm like, "Oh, ****."
- Welcome, painters.
- Hello.
Hey.
- For this challenge,
we tested your ability
- to blend your models
- seamlessly
into colorful and fun areas
of a toy store.
You had four hours to create
your playful paintings,
and we can't wait
to see your work.
Let's welcome back
our esteemed judges.
Craig Tracy.
- Hello, painters.
Hello.
- Robin Slonina.
- Hi, everybody.
- Hey.
- Hello.
- RuPaul Charles.
- Hi.
- Whoo!
- Hey.
- And joining us is
a special guest judge.
She's star of MTV's
hit show "Awkward."
Please welcome
Jillian Rose Reed.
- Hi, you guys.
Hi.
- Thank you so much
for welcoming me.
I'm a total kid at heart,
- so I'm really excited
- to see your work.
- I love "Awkward,"
and I can't believe
that an actress
- that I watch on one
- of my favorite shows
is gonna give me feedback
on my art.
- Now the real fun begins.
- We're gonna look
- at your final photos.
Brittney, can you please
step up to the center stage?
- I wanted to make my model
standing tall
but yet reaching back down,
wanting to have more
of the doll house
experience itself.
- I figured if I was gonna
- be stuck with the challenge,
I might as well
go big or go home.
- I love the way
you did the model's head.
There's some emotion there.
- Thank you, Craig.
- What would you do differently?
- More detailing.
I chose a tougher pose for her,
so maybe pose her
a bit differently.
- My favorite part
- about the whole piece
are the two dolls.
- You did such a good job
- of using a highlight
- to make it look like the--
- the cellophane
is in front of them.
You did an awesome job.
- Thank you.
- Okay, Hans, you're up.
- When you're playing,
you kind of disappear.
- I'm like, "This is kind of fun
- because you're
disappearing someone
into what they're doing."
- This is phenomenal.
I'm really blown away.
I got to tell you, kiddo,
you are in the game now.
- Thank you.
- There's parts of your model
that I cannot see.
- I'm obsessed
- with this whole thing.
I love it.
- Thanks so much.
- Tiffany, you're next.
- Mine was on art supplies.
- In general,
your details are a bit fuzzy,
but overall I'm sold.
It's camouflaging,
and you definitely achieved
a very successful execution
of the challenge.
- Thank you.
- Kyera, you're up.
- The reflections
- and then the textures
were very challenging,
but I am super glad
that I tackled it.
- I love this piece.
I love balls, you know, and...
It does trick my eye nicely.
- Technically it is
a bit hit or miss,
but overall it's so much fun
to look at,
- and I think that really
- saves this.
- Thank you.
- You're up, Alison.
- Hi.
My primary concern
was comfort for my model,
- so I went straight
- for the stuffed animals
'cause I knew I could create
sort of a cushiony place
for her to sit.
- Your painting for me
is a bit of a mess.
Oh, dear.
- That little metal piece,
it's way off.
If you can't paint something,
minimize it.
- Maybe in this instance
you were thinking
a little too much about how is
she gonna be comfortable
instead of, "How am I gonna make
a fun playful painting?"
- You know, there's a way
- to do both.
- Michael, you're up.
- You guys ready for the drama?
This was the hardest experience
I've had as a body painter.
So hard.
Originally I wanted her
to be reaching out for the toy.
- She just, like, started feeling
- ill, and so I was like,
"We have to switch it up,"
so we switched it,
and she started feeling ill
again, and so I was like,
"Well, I'm just gonna paint you
laying down,"
and that's what it is.
I think for an hour
and 45 minutes
I did a pretty decent job.
- Did your model have her
knees locked in the beginning?
- Yeah, she was basically
like this.
- Michael, you've got
a lot of excuses,
but ultimately you're
responsible for all of it.
You did make the best
of a bad situation,
but we just have to be able
to judge what we're seeing...
and what we're seeing is a mess.
- I'm realizing I **** up
really, really bad,
and I'm starting
to feel nervous about it.
- Michael, you did make
the best of a bad situation,
but we just have to be able
to judge what we're seeing,
and what we're seeing is a mess.
- There's some really
- beautiful parts
- of this painting
- that I really appreciate,
but the placement
of the model
is a huge part
of this challenge,
and that's on you, kiddo.
Got to learn from this one.
- Thank you, judges.
- Shelley, your turn.
- It was definitely fun
to do camouflage.
However, I had a lot
of challenges.
- Shelley, this was
an opportunity missed.
The shading,
the pegboard...
that's not even close
to the right color.
Just missed it, missed it,
missed it.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, there's some things
- that stick out,
like the head sticks out
to me a little bit.
Okay, it's fun though.
I like all of your color work
on the rest of the piece.
- Thank you.
- All right,
well, thank you, Shelley.
Rick, you're next.
- The few times that
I have worked with camouflage,
my color palette
is very limited.
Here, having every single color
to work with made it
a lot easier for me.
- So you're used to roughing it
- when it comes to materials?
- Yes, definitely.
- I was mixing, like,
with black and blue
and making a black with white
- to make, like,
- a brighter blue, you know,
so right here was really easy
to get all these colors.
- Rick...
welcome to the game.
- Heck yeah.
- I'm actually
blown away by this.
I feel like you just...
woke the **** up.
- Rick, when I first looked
- at your picture,
I could see your model's legs,
and then I couldn't find
the rest of your model.
I'm so impressed.
I'm so blown away.
- Thank you.
- Thank you, Rick.
Luis, you're next.
- I just really wanted
- to get my hands
on that bubblegum machine,
- so I just kind of placed it
- on there.
I think I pulled it off.
- I love that bubblegum hand.
I love the little dinosaur
smile on her arm.
- There's not a lot of detail
in this piece,
but yeah, overall,
pretty good job.
- Okay, Otto, your turn.
- I picked the sports section.
The model--it was
a harder position.
It was rough for her, but--
- Did you get to a point
- where you realized,
"I'm not gonna be able
to line things up"?
- It was definitely
- interesting.
There was all sorts
of colorful words
every time she went back
to that spot, so...
- Somewhere in the world
- right now,
that model is saying, "Otto!"
- She was saying that
- at about hour two, so...
- Yeah, yeah.
- I'm finding it
- incredibly distracting
that there's that one yellow
bat that it almost looks
like it's got
a slice cut out of it.
Technically it just could have
been stronger for me.
- Otto, I think you bit off
more than you could chew.
If you're gonna go
for a home run,
you got to be
a little tactical,
and that's where things
got shaky.
- All right, Jess, you're up.
- I am a camouflage novice,
so this was
a very steep learning curve.
- Jess, I'm curious.
- Yes?
- Knowing that
- in this competition
we're gonna do a camouflage,
why hadn't you tried it
before you came here?
- I was working full-time
on a--on a project
up until the minute
I got on the plane here.
- Thank you, Jess.
Painters, the judges
have a very tough decision
on their hands
and a lot to talk about.
- Please head back to the lounge,
- and we'll call you back shortly.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
- You come out here
- for a competition
and you want to do your best.
You want to prove to everybody
there's a reason I'm here.
I knew I could have done
a lot better.
- So what'd you think?
- I can't even wrap my brain
around doing this kind
of a challenge.
I was just amazed.
- What'd you think about Rick?
- Well, you know, he really
comes from a tough childhood,
and he doesn't have access
to have every color
in his palette,
and I think for him
this was such a treat.
- Couldn't find his model.
- Yeah.
- How about Hans?
- I feel like he's sort
- of been sleepwalking, and just--
- And you'd be right
- about that.
- And then all of a sudden
- he pulled out
a nearly perfect piece.
- What'd you think
- about Brittney?
- She really did a good job
- matching up those pinks
- and those purples.
- I feel like everything
- blended really well.
- I love the pose.
I love with the--the head,
the emotion in the piece.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- That heart on the eye
was gorgeous,
and lot of good elements
that she had there.
- I was not impressed
with Alison's piece.
I think she is a
fabulous painter except today.
That was not good.
- It would have been
more successful
to spend a little more time
thinking about the creativity
of the pose.
- How about Michael?
- Wow.
- Oh, boy.
- What do we do here?
- The initial idea he had for
posing the model was outrageous,
and an experienced painter
would understand
that you can't have someone
standing there in that pose
for four hours.
It was his mistake,
and he has to own that.
- Excuses
are not gonna work here.
- Let's talk about Shelley.
- Yeah.
- The only thing
- we can say is that she did
great color matching.
- But I-I disagree
because she only did
great color matching
on the primary colors.
- Mm-hmm.
- Those subtle things.
That pegboard is hideous.
It's almost as if she
had forgotten about shading.
- I think that she is probably
a very talented painter,
but I didn't see that
in the work today.
- How about Otto?
- Otto really set himself up
for a ridiculous challenge.
- The poor model
had to pay the price.
You have to be aware
of everything,
especially in
a camouflage challenge.
- So, judges,
have you made a decision?
- Yes.
- Painters, you had
some amazing blends tonight,
but only one of you
will be the winner,
and one of you will be
going home tonight.
Kyera...
Jess...
Luis, Tiffany...
Alison...
congratulations.
You are all safe.
- Oh, thank God.
- You may head back
to the painters' lounge.
Shelley...
Michael...
Otto...
I'm sorry to say
you are in the bottom three.
The judges thought
your work fell short
compared to your competitors.
Hans...
Brittney, Rick...
congratulations.
You are the top three.
Hans, Rick...
you are the top two.
One of you will be the winner.
That means, Brittney,
you are safe.
- You may head back
- to the lounge.
You did great work today.
- Congratulations.
- Thanks, you guys.
Thanks.
- Hans and Rick,
will you please step forward?
- Rick, you're a magician.
You absolutely made
your model disappear.
- Thank you.
- Fantastic job.
- Hans, your painting
was fun, smart, simple,
and perfectly executed.
- I am so impressed
with your work.
- Thank you.
- The winner
of this challenge is...
- I feel like
- I've already won this.
- I'm not trying
- to be overconfident.
- I just know
- what my abilities are,
and I know that I have
more experience than Rick.
- Hans, Rick...
The winner
of this challenge is...
- Rick.
- Yeah.
- Yup.
- Whew!
- Whoo!
- Well done.
- I can't believe
that I lost to a child.
It's so lame.
- Oh!
- There you go.
- I could not find
your model, Rick.
I am new to this world,
and I am now a big fan
of body painting,
and that's thanks to you.
- Man, oh, man.
My eyes are so tricked out.
- You rick-trick.
- He's tricky Rick.
- Trick, you ricked me, trick,
real bad, trick.
- Thank you.
- You and Hans may head back
- to the lounge.
Well done.
- Thank you so much.
- Shelley...
Michael...
Otto...
the three of you are in danger
of going home tonight.
Otto, you are safe.
You may head back
to the lounge.
- Thank you.
- Shelley,
I-I really enjoyed the pose,
but I feel like you bit off
more than you could chew.
- Michael, you made the best
of a bad situation,
but in the professional world,
you have to deliver.
No excuses.
- I made a huge mistake,
but I can't go home for that.
- Shelley, Michael...
this is it.
One of you will be packing
their brushes tonight.
Shelley...
I'm sorry.
You'll be going home tonight.
- I'm disappointed in myself.
My heart breaks.
- Michael, that means
you live to paint another day,
but you'll have to up your game
to stay in the competition.
No more excuses.
- Thank you so much.
- Yeah!
- Shelley, I love your spirit,
and I expect big things
from you in the future.
- It's time to go wash off
- your canvas.
- Thank you.
- I wish I could say
- that I was ready to go home.
I don't think I did
what I set out to do here.
- Shelley!
- Come in. Come in.
- I'm gonna miss
- all of you.
All in all it was not
a day at the beach,
and I sort of drowned in it,
but that was my doing,
and I own my mistakes.
I'm not gonna stop painting,
and this hasn't discouraged me
in any way.
The world will see more of me.
- Next time on "Skin Wars"...
- I need to show
- I do have my own place
in the body-painting world.
- Dude.
- I'm nervous.
- The airbrush
- looks really sloppy.
I'm not really feeling this.
- I'm the one
- that's gonna go home.
- Please welcome makeup artist
and YouTube sensation
Kandee Johnson.
- I'm so excited you're here.
- Thanks.
- Just stunning.
- I do wish that his faces
would have come across clearer.
- Maybe you should have helped.
- Who can I blame
for painting those faces?
- I almost feel like
throwing myself under the bus.
- of competitive body painting,
you can either keep your cool
or turn up the heat.
- It's a sizzling
season three of "Skin Wars."
The art of body painting
is more powerful than ever.
12 of the most talented artists
from around the world
will push themselves
week after week...
- You painted your heart out.
- Yeah!
- Proving who is brilliant
- with a brush...
- Yeah!
- Just amazing.
- Loved it.
- I came here to win.
- Oh!
- And who can't handle
- the pressure.
- I'm freaking out.
- What?
- Wow.
- It's not fair.
- How dare you disgrace
this competition
with your bull****!
- Do you want
to leave the competition?
In the end,
the winner takes all,
$100,000...
- 100,000 Gs, baby.
- And the ultimate title
of "Skin Wars" champion.
- We walk in the workroom
and we see this giant book.
- I don't know what's inside of it
- or what--
- how it's gonna play out,
- but whatever
they're gonna throw at me,
I'm ready to take it.
- Hello, painters.
Hello.
- Congratulations
on surviving the first week.
- Whoo!
- Ahh!
- Today we want you to embrace
your inner child
because this challenge
is all about fairy tales.
Ru?
- Once upon a time
in an enchanted
and colorful land
lived 12 talented painters.
They faced
many difficult challenges
that put their skills
and creativity to the test.
- One by one,
the painters were sent home
until the winner was crowned
"Skin Wars" champion
and lived colorfully
ever after.
- Ooh, I can't wait to see
how this story ends.
- You and me both.
- In this challenge,
you will reimagine
a classic fairy tale
by bringing it
into the 21st century.
- Let your imagination
run wild
as you modernize
these classic tales.
- You will have to create a
head-to-toe front-only painting
of your reimagined fairy tale
in only three hours.
- Oh.
- Here are a few things
to help fire up
your imagination.
- There are 11 stories
- to choose from...
- Nice.
- And each story
has a corresponding item
to serve as inspiration.
- I like the big apple.
- Oh, my God.
- When I pick the brush
- with our name on it,
you'll select the item
that goes with the story
you want to paint.
- Brittney, please pick
- your fairy tale.
- Oh, yay.
- I didn't have
- my daily fruits today,
so I'm gonna go
with "Snow White."
- Shelley.
- Yay.
"Alice's Adventures
in Wonderland."
- Kyera.
- Yes!
"Beauty and the Beast."
Aww.
- Alison.
- "Cinderella."
- Tiffany.
- "Peter and Wendy."
- Rick.
- Fairy tales for me were not
something I grew up with.
Yup.
- I get the shield
- with the sword,
and I have no clue what it is.
What is this?
- Turns out to be
- it's "Hercules."
- Jess.
- "Little Red Riding Hood."
- Michael.
- I am a nudist.
I'm totally that nude Mowgli
in the forest,
- so I looked at the tiger,
- and I was like,
- "I have to be
- 'The Jungle Book.'"
"The Jungle Book."
- Of course.
- Otto.
- "Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
- Hans.
- "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."
- And Luis.
- I got "Pinocchio."
- Are y'all happy
with your fairy tales?
- Yeah!
- Good.
The winner
will get an advantage
in the concept challenge,
so make sure
you do your best work
in the three hours you have
to complete this challenge.
Your time starts... now.
Go, go.
- I don't know what
- I'm gonna use for this one,
- so I'm just gonna
- take everything.
- Where's the little
- spray bottle, guys?
- Is this gonna be easy?
No, it's not gonna be easy.
- My name is Otto.
- I am 38 years old,
and I'm from
Winneconne, Wisconsin.
I'm very excited
- that this is gonna be
- a fairy tale challenge.
I grew up listening
to all sorts of fairy tales.
I am a single father,
and me and my daughter,
we have our fairy tale nights,
- so I love just being able
- to read 'em
- and gives her more
- and more ideas,
and it gives her some ideas
to build her creativity off of.
- Haven't read this story
- to my daughter yet, but one--
one of these years when we're
sitting around a bonfire,
we'll see what we can do.
We didn't even--
I haven't glued your underwear.
- I got stuck, luckily,
- with "Pinocchio"
- 'cause that's the story
- I know the best,
so I knew
that's what I wanted.
- I know Robin
- doesn't like cartoony,
so I didn't want to go 2-D,
so I put my own twist to it,
make kind of, like,
a 3-D cartoon of myself
to incorporate the puppet.
To get a 3-D illusion,
- it's all about working
- with depth.
Looks kind of plain,
but I like it.
- Well, we're gonna
- be doing "Hercules."
- My name is Rick.
- I'm 20 years old,
and I'm from El Paso, Texas.
I'm the youngest competitor
ever in "Skin Wars,"
and I ain't scared.
- It messes
- with everybody's head.
They think, like,
they're better than me,
so I'll just keep playing
the game.
It's looking good already.
- Wow, it looks like
the god of storms.
My name is Shelley Wapniak.
I am 33, and I am
from Brooklyn, New York.
- Primarily I'm a birthday party
- entertainer.
I do balloon twisting
and body painting.
I am obsessed
with body painting.
I love it so much.
- I would say that I was
- bubbly, energetic.
Gonna bring this to life.
I wear my emotions
on my sleeve, on my face.
- Yeah, I don't really
- hide much.
- My name is Brittney.
I'm 28 years old,
- and I'm from
- Broussard, Louisiana.
I have been painting
all my life.
When I was eight years old,
my father was put in prison,
and I would draw to escape
from all of the emotion.
I would try and create
my own imaginative world
that was happy
and took my mind off
of what was actually
going on at the time.
Fairy tales do come true.
- You just don't even know.
- The plot may thicken.
- Guys, we're halfway through!
An hour and 30 minutes left!
- My fairy tale
is "The Wizard of Oz."
Instead of her following
the--the yellow brick road,
she's gonna be walking
the stars
of Hollywood Boulevard.
My name's Hans.
- I'm from Los Angeles,
- California.
I first got
into body painting in 1997.
I started working
with designers, runway models,
music videos.
- My strategy
- for the overall competition
is to let people think
that maybe I'm not that good.
When the time is right,
I'm gonna swoop in.
Okay, you can step down now.
- I'm Jess.
- I'm 24.
I'm from Sydney, Australia,
and I am full-time body painter.
Last year I ranked fourth
- at the World
- Bodypainting Festival,
so I'm used to competition.
- When I get
- "Little Red Riding Hood"
- and I know I have
- to modernize it,
- my brain's going
- on overdrive just trying
- to kind of come up
- with as many ideas as possible,
and the first one really
that sticks is cyberstalking.
- Stand, like,
- straight onto that leg.
- Hey, y'all,
we got 30 minutes to go!
- Oh, my God.
- Is anyone else freaking out?
- Oh, my gosh!
- Whew!
- One minute!
- All right, painters,
time's up, tools down.
Hi, Tiffany.
- Hey.
- So you had
- "Peter and Wendy"...
- Yes, I did, yes.
- Also known as "Peter Pan."
- Hook is a dictator
that likes to take over
and use all the resources up,
and so here's combat Tink
over here,
and she's ready to, like,
take on the dictator Hook.
So you can--
she can move her arm,
and she moves Hook,
- so it gives--gives him
- a little bit of character.
- Can we see some movement?
- You have to say, "Arr!"
Arr!
- Okay, well,
- thank you, Tiffany.
- Thank you so much, you guys.
- So my story starts outs
with a little girl,
and she is dragged
to a really boring tea party.
- I wanted something
- vibrant and bright
- that has lots
- of vibrant psychedelic colors.
- And the model
is the little girl?
- I actually wanted to stay
- away from depicting characters.
- So is this--
- this is not a white rabbit?
- This is actually
the dormouse...
- The dormouse.
- Coming out of the teakettle.
- Oh, I see.
So her upper body is a teapot.
- Yes.
- Oh, I see.
Oh, she's a little teapot.
- Okay.
- Not short or stout.
- Okay.
- But no little girl here.
- Right.
- Hey, Rick.
- Hey, how's it going?
- So you picked "Hercules."
- Yeah.
- Will you tell us your story?
- Um, uh, well,
I don't really have a story...
- but I decided to work
- with her arms,
so that it would be
Hercules' arm,
- and then holding the sword
- would just make it
come to life in a way.
Be like...
- Oh, yeah.
This is really
wonderfully painted.
- Yeah.
- I'm just wondering
what makes this modern.
- I would say definitely
- the style.
- It's more of a new fashion type
- of way.
- I'd love for the painting
to speak for itself.
- That's definitely something
- I should have done.
- Hello.
- Hi, Luis.
- Hello. Hey.
- So you got "Pinocchio."
- Yup.
- I made myself into a puppet.
There's this fairy
that made the dream come true
of me being on here.
My friends and family
will be cheering me on.
Nowadays everything's in 3-D.
That's why I put, like,
the depth of the hand
kind of, you know, reaching out.
- So you had
- "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
- It's a love story
gone wrong.
The story goes
we got Ichabod Crane,
and we got Bones Boon.
Here they have
the eternal battle for the girl,
and the next morning
all you see
are shards of the pumpkin,
and Ichabod
was mysteriously vanished.
- You know,
- this is almost reading to me
like a comic book
of the whole story.
Um, where's your own
modern twist on it?
- That is the modern twist.
- Kind of like a graphic novel.
- It's your modern twist?
- Graphic novel.
- So "Little Red Riding Hood"
is a story
about essentially a loss
of innocence,
but in modern day times
the predators don't hide
in the forest.
- They're hiding
- on the Internet.
- Ooh.
Spooky.
What about those panels there?
- Think of it as
- like browser windows,
- so we've got
- a little mouse here.
- She's, like, kind of clicking
- between them,
so think of them as like
profile photos or something.
- So "The Jungle Book"
is a story about
an Indian boy named Mowgli.
Modernism is taking over
everything that's natural.
- And where's the modernism
represented on the model?
- I wanted to capture how
everything is sort of a grid
and structured
with this sort of silver,
and then nature is just, like,
creeping through all of that.
- This is Dorothy's
- modern travels
to the Emerald City,
which is Hollywood.
- My interpretation
- of the yellow brick road
- is the--the Hollywood...
- Walk of Fame.
- Walk of Fame, yeah.
- Oh, Walk of Fame.
- I have to say this is one
- of the most fully realized
paintings that we've seen
from you.
- We're finally seeing
- the highlights,
the shadows, you know.
Things are popping.
- We're getting to see
- some of your realism.
- Thank you so much.
- So expressive.
- So many stories.
- Oh, yeah.
I know, right?
- Jess's painting was maybe one
- of the only ones in the room
- that I didn't need
- an explanation.
- The focal point, though,
seemed to be grandma's house.
That was an odd choice.
Luis is just adorable,
and his painting was adorable.
Depicting himself as Pinocchio
I thought was really smart,
and it was fun,
and it was well done.
- Yes.
- I think a good attempt
- at updating the story
- was Tiffany.
I liked her take, and it was
beautifully painted.
- Beautiful painting.
- I just wish, though,
that I got that story
from the painting
more than just her
telling it to us.
- Right.
- How about Hans?
- I loved
the Cowardly Lion's face.
- He had a little highlight
at the tip of the nose.
- Yup, I liked that.
- Beautifully painted.
- Okay, judges,
- have you made your decision?
- Yes.
- Yeah.
- All right,
- let's go tell 'em.
- All right.
- Painters,
you've had three hours
to complete your head-to-toe
fairy tale inspired painting.
Now it's time to let you know
who the top three painters are.
Tiffany...
Jess...
and Luis.
- Oh.
- Yay.
- Well, are you ready
to hear who the winner is?
Yes.
- The winner
of this challenge is...
- I'm thinking to myself,
"Tiffany, you're gonna win.
Tiffany, you're gonna win."
I got this.
- Painters,
you've had three hours
to complete your head-to-toe
fairy tale inspired painting.
- Tiffany, your painting
was gorgeous and just bam.
Hit it with your creativity
and your technique.
It's pretty amazing.
- Jess, from the moment
I saw your painting,
I got "Little Red Riding Hood"
in cyberspace right away.
Luis, you really put
a lot of yourself
into your fairy tale.
- Literally.
- It was very fun
and childlike.
Bravo.
- Thank you very much.
- You all did a great job
reimagining these fairy tales,
but there is one painter
who has the best ending
to their story,
and the winner
of this challenge is...
- Jess.
- Congratulations.
You're the winner.
- Aww!
- My piece was definitely
the best by far,
so I knew I was gonna win.
- Congratulations, Jess.
You will soon find out
about your advantage
in the next round.
- You ready to hear
- about your next challenge?
Yes.
- Today you had some fun
- and embraced your inner child,
but tomorrow might not all
be fun and games...
or will it?
I'd love to tell you more,
but you'll just have
to wait to find out.
- See you tomorrow.
Bye.
- Leave us hanging.
- Don't do that.
- Good morning.
- He say, "Whoo!"
- Since I am a nudist,
I'm very confident,
and that's incredibly important
in this competition.
- Seriously?
Dude, put something on.
- Such a merman.
- So graceful.
- It's annoying.
He knows when he's naked
not to get around me.
- Personally,
- I definitely would not
be walking around bare naked.
It's really gross.
- Ew.
- Aww.
- For our concept challenge,
we walk into a toy store.
Like, a kid's
magical kingdom right there.
- All I keep doing
- is looking around
- and seeing all of the things
- that I want to play with,
but I have no idea
what's going on just yet.
- Hello, painters.
Hi.
- Yesterday you embraced
your inner child
by reimagining
classic fairy tales,
and today we wanted
to reward your inner child
- by bringing you
- to a toy store.
- All right.
- Nice.
- Woo-hoo!
- But you didn't
- come here to play.
You came here to paint.
Today you'll be
blending your models
into this toy store,
making them seamlessly
disappear.
- What do you think about that?
- Whoo!
- Ready for it.
- Ready.
- Ready for it?
- Yes.
- There are 11 different areas
in this toy store,
one for each of you.
- This is one of the most fun
environments possible,
but this will also be one of
the most difficult challenges.
Remember that color matching
is vital.
- This is
- about fooling the eye.
Your attention to detail
and picking a creative pose
are what will help you win
this challenge.
- From a modeling standpoint,
take into consideration
the model's comfort level.
Locking the knees is no joke.
We've had painters
and models drop like flies
from locking knees, so be
careful with your model's pose.
You'll have a video camera
- and a monitor
- at each of your stations
- to refer to
- throughout the challenge,
and you'll have four hours
to get it done.
What?
- Jess, since you won
the first challenge,
you get first pick
of your area in the store.
- Okay, awesome.
- The rest of you
- will pick your areas
when I start the challenge.
Good luck, everyone.
Jess, you can choose
your area... now.
- So many toys.
I'm gonna pick board games.
- I've never done camouflage
- before,
so I pick the board games
- because I figure
- everything's flat
- and so there won't be a lot
- of shiny things to deal with.
- Okay, everybody, you ready?
Your time starts now!
Pick your spots!
- Ah-ha-ha!
- Got mine!
- I got beach toys!
- I get the beach scene.
- It's right there.
Bold colors, primary colors,
big objects.
- I had my eye set out
on those beach balls
because they're
a little bit easier...
- Whoo! Long Beach!
- But of course Shelley
gets the station.
- I've got this.
- Oh!
- Uh, I'm coming.
- I'm coming.
Aww.
Everyone's got a station,
and I'm just searching
for what's left.
Ah!
And then there it is.
This one's mine.
I'll take it.
The holy wall of dolls.
I've got straight lines.
I've got doll faces
that I have to do.
This is gonna be
a tough challenge for me.
It sucks.
Hi.
How are you, love?
- Hello.
- Excuse me.
- I'm gonna
- have you take that off.
- Yeah, that's super--that's--
you're so sexy.
Damn.
Camouflage is what I do,
and I do it well.
It's really important
to have a creative pose,
so I choose a pose
for my model that isn't
the most convenient,
but it's ambitious
and it has a wow effect,
so she just has to hold it.
- You're very patient.
- Otto.
- What's that?
- How's your model doing?
- So far, so good.
- Awesome.
- I need to be an owl right now.
- I need to have eyes
- in the back of my head
watching this monitor
and getting my model painted.
That shoulder's back.
- I started getting
- into body painting
when I was in high school,
so I had to learn camouflage
the hard way.
I didn't have the tools
that I do here.
I've never worked
with a monitor and the camera,
and my color palette
was very limited,
but now I have every color
that I want,
so I'm taking advantage
of that.
Nice.
- Think maybe twist away
a little bit.
- Like this?
- Perfect.
- I think I need you
- to sit still
for the rest of it, yeah,
so just stay like that.
- Michael is just super harsh
on his model.
I feel bad for her.
- I need you
- to stay still 'cause,
- you know, we have three hours
- at this point.
- I think it's 'cause I'm,
like, stretched and can't move.
- We're about an hour into it,
and she's like,
"I can't hold this pose."
It's probably 'cause
your knees are locked, right?
It's gonna be a long ride.
- I look over at Michael.
She's got a pretty
complicated pose to do.
He locks her knees,
and so this could be really,
really bad.
- You're gonna have
- to keep it up.
Can you do it?
- I don't think so.
- It's not working.
I have to reposition her.
Let's hope that this works.
The entire first hour passes.
I lose all of that time,
all of that effort,
and I have to start over.
I'm nervous.
- You're gonna have
- to keep it up.
- We were told,
- "Don't lock your knees.
Keep your model comfortable."
Michael did not listen,
and it cost him.
- Perfect.
Okay, paint.
- I'm feeling
- very confident right now.
- I feel good.
- I've done camo before.
- Whoa!
- Where is she, Hans?
Whoo!
Damn, man.
You're killing it.
- I'm ahead of schedule
- right now.
I'm feeling good,
so there's zero issues.
- Getting there.
- Whew!
- I'm so sorry.
Can we pause for a second?
- What?
- What's going on?
So the second position
didn't make her feel better.
- I'm like, "****!
- What am I gonna do?"
Oh, my God.
I've done two poses,
and she can't get up.
I **** up in the beginning.
Her knees were locked,
and now I have to suffer
the consequences.
I lose all of that time,
all of that effort.
My entire soul just,
like, darkens.
****.
- Oh, my God.
Nothing's working out
for me today.
I **** up in the beginning.
Her knees were locked,
and now I have to suffer
the consequences.
I've done two poses,
and she can't get up.
- She's sitting on the floor,
- and I'm like,
"Something needs to happen."
- ****.
- Rest on this little guy.
So I-I start over.
I get a **** teddy bear,
and I'm like, "Listen,
just rest on this teddy bear,
and I'm gonna paint you
exactly as you are."
Okay, we're doing this.
- Are you ready?
- Are you comfortable?
I start painting again,
and I only have, like,
- an hour and a half,
- and I'm just like,
"Ugh, this **** sucks."
I'm really **** amazing
at this, and I can't show it.
- Guys, one hour left!
- No!
- Whatever.
- Make it work, okay.
I'm like, "Oh, my God."
I have no time to do
all these doll faces.
Why are there so many faces?
They make me want to throw up.
Ew.
- I think there's just
no way to do this.
I tried putting in
these straight lines
with the grating,
and that is just
not happening for me.
- Why do bodies
- have to have curves?
The grating across her chest
here is the hardest
because it has to line up
with the breast behind,
- and so I'm drawing part
- of a line here
and part of a line here,
and it is just, like,
messing with my brain.
- It's getting down
to the wire now.
- Hmm, it's coming together
slowly.
- Nope, get up.
- Sit down.
- Ohh!
Oh, my, my, my.
Ahh!
- It's a rough position
that I put her in.
I have her standing
up and down,
- you know, trying
- to stretch out her legs
- and trying
- to stretch everything out,
but there's no way
I can change it,
so I feel terrible.
- Sitting is pretty cool.
- It wasn't that bad.
It was, I know.
- Want to switch places?
- Nope.
- I'm behind everybody.
I wanted to avoid lots
of tiny little details,
thinking that bigger,
bolder shapes
would be easier to do.
Ha-ha, silly me.
I didn't think this through.
Okay, something shifted.
Your arm.
Okay, something's wrong.
Why is this bending?
Something's not right anymore.
- Keep your head
- where it's supposed to be.
- Can you get in position
- so I know what I'm doing?
Put your arm in position.
I am struggling with my model
shifting and moving around,
and I am struggling with
getting things to reline up...
- Lift your foot up.
- Lift it up.
- So I'm getting
- really stressed out.
- What is happening?
- Why is this arm not right?
- No, why aren't you lined up
- with the--
with this thing anymore?
- I love Shelley,
- but the energy
that she is putting off
is not the best.
- Oh, ****.
Everything's off now.
Oh, ****.
- All I hear is her cursing
- the whole time
and, you know, kind of fussing
back and forth with her model.
- You got it, Shelley.
- You got it.
Just work, girl, work.
Don't--don't even talk.
- Just work.
- Holy **** crap.
- I'm never gonna get
- this done in time.
- Five minutes left!
- All right, painters,
- time's up!
Put your tools down!
- It's time to take
- your final photos,
and I'll see you over
at the elimination stage.
Good luck!
- I lined everything up
the best that I can,
but get her up and down
every five or ten minutes,
all those lines
completely change.
I'm like, "Oh, ****."
- Welcome, painters.
- Hello.
Hey.
- For this challenge,
we tested your ability
- to blend your models
- seamlessly
into colorful and fun areas
of a toy store.
You had four hours to create
your playful paintings,
and we can't wait
to see your work.
Let's welcome back
our esteemed judges.
Craig Tracy.
- Hello, painters.
Hello.
- Robin Slonina.
- Hi, everybody.
- Hey.
- Hello.
- RuPaul Charles.
- Hi.
- Whoo!
- Hey.
- And joining us is
a special guest judge.
She's star of MTV's
hit show "Awkward."
Please welcome
Jillian Rose Reed.
- Hi, you guys.
Hi.
- Thank you so much
for welcoming me.
I'm a total kid at heart,
- so I'm really excited
- to see your work.
- I love "Awkward,"
and I can't believe
that an actress
- that I watch on one
- of my favorite shows
is gonna give me feedback
on my art.
- Now the real fun begins.
- We're gonna look
- at your final photos.
Brittney, can you please
step up to the center stage?
- I wanted to make my model
standing tall
but yet reaching back down,
wanting to have more
of the doll house
experience itself.
- I figured if I was gonna
- be stuck with the challenge,
I might as well
go big or go home.
- I love the way
you did the model's head.
There's some emotion there.
- Thank you, Craig.
- What would you do differently?
- More detailing.
I chose a tougher pose for her,
so maybe pose her
a bit differently.
- My favorite part
- about the whole piece
are the two dolls.
- You did such a good job
- of using a highlight
- to make it look like the--
- the cellophane
is in front of them.
You did an awesome job.
- Thank you.
- Okay, Hans, you're up.
- When you're playing,
you kind of disappear.
- I'm like, "This is kind of fun
- because you're
disappearing someone
into what they're doing."
- This is phenomenal.
I'm really blown away.
I got to tell you, kiddo,
you are in the game now.
- Thank you.
- There's parts of your model
that I cannot see.
- I'm obsessed
- with this whole thing.
I love it.
- Thanks so much.
- Tiffany, you're next.
- Mine was on art supplies.
- In general,
your details are a bit fuzzy,
but overall I'm sold.
It's camouflaging,
and you definitely achieved
a very successful execution
of the challenge.
- Thank you.
- Kyera, you're up.
- The reflections
- and then the textures
were very challenging,
but I am super glad
that I tackled it.
- I love this piece.
I love balls, you know, and...
It does trick my eye nicely.
- Technically it is
a bit hit or miss,
but overall it's so much fun
to look at,
- and I think that really
- saves this.
- Thank you.
- You're up, Alison.
- Hi.
My primary concern
was comfort for my model,
- so I went straight
- for the stuffed animals
'cause I knew I could create
sort of a cushiony place
for her to sit.
- Your painting for me
is a bit of a mess.
Oh, dear.
- That little metal piece,
it's way off.
If you can't paint something,
minimize it.
- Maybe in this instance
you were thinking
a little too much about how is
she gonna be comfortable
instead of, "How am I gonna make
a fun playful painting?"
- You know, there's a way
- to do both.
- Michael, you're up.
- You guys ready for the drama?
This was the hardest experience
I've had as a body painter.
So hard.
Originally I wanted her
to be reaching out for the toy.
- She just, like, started feeling
- ill, and so I was like,
"We have to switch it up,"
so we switched it,
and she started feeling ill
again, and so I was like,
"Well, I'm just gonna paint you
laying down,"
and that's what it is.
I think for an hour
and 45 minutes
I did a pretty decent job.
- Did your model have her
knees locked in the beginning?
- Yeah, she was basically
like this.
- Michael, you've got
a lot of excuses,
but ultimately you're
responsible for all of it.
You did make the best
of a bad situation,
but we just have to be able
to judge what we're seeing...
and what we're seeing is a mess.
- I'm realizing I **** up
really, really bad,
and I'm starting
to feel nervous about it.
- Michael, you did make
the best of a bad situation,
but we just have to be able
to judge what we're seeing,
and what we're seeing is a mess.
- There's some really
- beautiful parts
- of this painting
- that I really appreciate,
but the placement
of the model
is a huge part
of this challenge,
and that's on you, kiddo.
Got to learn from this one.
- Thank you, judges.
- Shelley, your turn.
- It was definitely fun
to do camouflage.
However, I had a lot
of challenges.
- Shelley, this was
an opportunity missed.
The shading,
the pegboard...
that's not even close
to the right color.
Just missed it, missed it,
missed it.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, there's some things
- that stick out,
like the head sticks out
to me a little bit.
Okay, it's fun though.
I like all of your color work
on the rest of the piece.
- Thank you.
- All right,
well, thank you, Shelley.
Rick, you're next.
- The few times that
I have worked with camouflage,
my color palette
is very limited.
Here, having every single color
to work with made it
a lot easier for me.
- So you're used to roughing it
- when it comes to materials?
- Yes, definitely.
- I was mixing, like,
with black and blue
and making a black with white
- to make, like,
- a brighter blue, you know,
so right here was really easy
to get all these colors.
- Rick...
welcome to the game.
- Heck yeah.
- I'm actually
blown away by this.
I feel like you just...
woke the **** up.
- Rick, when I first looked
- at your picture,
I could see your model's legs,
and then I couldn't find
the rest of your model.
I'm so impressed.
I'm so blown away.
- Thank you.
- Thank you, Rick.
Luis, you're next.
- I just really wanted
- to get my hands
on that bubblegum machine,
- so I just kind of placed it
- on there.
I think I pulled it off.
- I love that bubblegum hand.
I love the little dinosaur
smile on her arm.
- There's not a lot of detail
in this piece,
but yeah, overall,
pretty good job.
- Okay, Otto, your turn.
- I picked the sports section.
The model--it was
a harder position.
It was rough for her, but--
- Did you get to a point
- where you realized,
"I'm not gonna be able
to line things up"?
- It was definitely
- interesting.
There was all sorts
of colorful words
every time she went back
to that spot, so...
- Somewhere in the world
- right now,
that model is saying, "Otto!"
- She was saying that
- at about hour two, so...
- Yeah, yeah.
- I'm finding it
- incredibly distracting
that there's that one yellow
bat that it almost looks
like it's got
a slice cut out of it.
Technically it just could have
been stronger for me.
- Otto, I think you bit off
more than you could chew.
If you're gonna go
for a home run,
you got to be
a little tactical,
and that's where things
got shaky.
- All right, Jess, you're up.
- I am a camouflage novice,
so this was
a very steep learning curve.
- Jess, I'm curious.
- Yes?
- Knowing that
- in this competition
we're gonna do a camouflage,
why hadn't you tried it
before you came here?
- I was working full-time
on a--on a project
up until the minute
I got on the plane here.
- Thank you, Jess.
Painters, the judges
have a very tough decision
on their hands
and a lot to talk about.
- Please head back to the lounge,
- and we'll call you back shortly.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
- You come out here
- for a competition
and you want to do your best.
You want to prove to everybody
there's a reason I'm here.
I knew I could have done
a lot better.
- So what'd you think?
- I can't even wrap my brain
around doing this kind
of a challenge.
I was just amazed.
- What'd you think about Rick?
- Well, you know, he really
comes from a tough childhood,
and he doesn't have access
to have every color
in his palette,
and I think for him
this was such a treat.
- Couldn't find his model.
- Yeah.
- How about Hans?
- I feel like he's sort
- of been sleepwalking, and just--
- And you'd be right
- about that.
- And then all of a sudden
- he pulled out
a nearly perfect piece.
- What'd you think
- about Brittney?
- She really did a good job
- matching up those pinks
- and those purples.
- I feel like everything
- blended really well.
- I love the pose.
I love with the--the head,
the emotion in the piece.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- That heart on the eye
was gorgeous,
and lot of good elements
that she had there.
- I was not impressed
with Alison's piece.
I think she is a
fabulous painter except today.
That was not good.
- It would have been
more successful
to spend a little more time
thinking about the creativity
of the pose.
- How about Michael?
- Wow.
- Oh, boy.
- What do we do here?
- The initial idea he had for
posing the model was outrageous,
and an experienced painter
would understand
that you can't have someone
standing there in that pose
for four hours.
It was his mistake,
and he has to own that.
- Excuses
are not gonna work here.
- Let's talk about Shelley.
- Yeah.
- The only thing
- we can say is that she did
great color matching.
- But I-I disagree
because she only did
great color matching
on the primary colors.
- Mm-hmm.
- Those subtle things.
That pegboard is hideous.
It's almost as if she
had forgotten about shading.
- I think that she is probably
a very talented painter,
but I didn't see that
in the work today.
- How about Otto?
- Otto really set himself up
for a ridiculous challenge.
- The poor model
had to pay the price.
You have to be aware
of everything,
especially in
a camouflage challenge.
- So, judges,
have you made a decision?
- Yes.
- Painters, you had
some amazing blends tonight,
but only one of you
will be the winner,
and one of you will be
going home tonight.
Kyera...
Jess...
Luis, Tiffany...
Alison...
congratulations.
You are all safe.
- Oh, thank God.
- You may head back
to the painters' lounge.
Shelley...
Michael...
Otto...
I'm sorry to say
you are in the bottom three.
The judges thought
your work fell short
compared to your competitors.
Hans...
Brittney, Rick...
congratulations.
You are the top three.
Hans, Rick...
you are the top two.
One of you will be the winner.
That means, Brittney,
you are safe.
- You may head back
- to the lounge.
You did great work today.
- Congratulations.
- Thanks, you guys.
Thanks.
- Hans and Rick,
will you please step forward?
- Rick, you're a magician.
You absolutely made
your model disappear.
- Thank you.
- Fantastic job.
- Hans, your painting
was fun, smart, simple,
and perfectly executed.
- I am so impressed
with your work.
- Thank you.
- The winner
of this challenge is...
- I feel like
- I've already won this.
- I'm not trying
- to be overconfident.
- I just know
- what my abilities are,
and I know that I have
more experience than Rick.
- Hans, Rick...
The winner
of this challenge is...
- Rick.
- Yeah.
- Yup.
- Whew!
- Whoo!
- Well done.
- I can't believe
that I lost to a child.
It's so lame.
- Oh!
- There you go.
- I could not find
your model, Rick.
I am new to this world,
and I am now a big fan
of body painting,
and that's thanks to you.
- Man, oh, man.
My eyes are so tricked out.
- You rick-trick.
- He's tricky Rick.
- Trick, you ricked me, trick,
real bad, trick.
- Thank you.
- You and Hans may head back
- to the lounge.
Well done.
- Thank you so much.
- Shelley...
Michael...
Otto...
the three of you are in danger
of going home tonight.
Otto, you are safe.
You may head back
to the lounge.
- Thank you.
- Shelley,
I-I really enjoyed the pose,
but I feel like you bit off
more than you could chew.
- Michael, you made the best
of a bad situation,
but in the professional world,
you have to deliver.
No excuses.
- I made a huge mistake,
but I can't go home for that.
- Shelley, Michael...
this is it.
One of you will be packing
their brushes tonight.
Shelley...
I'm sorry.
You'll be going home tonight.
- I'm disappointed in myself.
My heart breaks.
- Michael, that means
you live to paint another day,
but you'll have to up your game
to stay in the competition.
No more excuses.
- Thank you so much.
- Yeah!
- Shelley, I love your spirit,
and I expect big things
from you in the future.
- It's time to go wash off
- your canvas.
- Thank you.
- I wish I could say
- that I was ready to go home.
I don't think I did
what I set out to do here.
- Shelley!
- Come in. Come in.
- I'm gonna miss
- all of you.
All in all it was not
a day at the beach,
and I sort of drowned in it,
but that was my doing,
and I own my mistakes.
I'm not gonna stop painting,
and this hasn't discouraged me
in any way.
The world will see more of me.
- Next time on "Skin Wars"...
- I need to show
- I do have my own place
in the body-painting world.
- Dude.
- I'm nervous.
- The airbrush
- looks really sloppy.
I'm not really feeling this.
- I'm the one
- that's gonna go home.
- Please welcome makeup artist
and YouTube sensation
Kandee Johnson.
- I'm so excited you're here.
- Thanks.
- Just stunning.
- I do wish that his faces
would have come across clearer.
- Maybe you should have helped.
- Who can I blame
for painting those faces?
- I almost feel like
throwing myself under the bus.