The Golden Girl series of Dan Van Winkle

Dan Van Winkle

Member since 2008

UdA Art Editor

His 17 articles
The most read : Vassanta

His interview

Some years ago, I interviewed Dan Van Winkle :

Dan, you often shoot outdoors. Is Nature your favorite location ?
I love the outdoors. I find the challenge of shooting nudes outdoors to be particularly fulfilling when I'm able to pull it off.

Indeed, it's a large majority of his beautiful work :

"CK Dunes"

"Stormrider"

But on his active DeviantArt I found this beautiful Golden Girls series.

I discovered another facet of my talented friend : Dan in a studio, Dan using painting, Dan in a sculptural body work ?... Of course, I asked him immediately the story of the series :




Golden Girls

The original idea came from Andrea Rosu IG @theandrearosu. She came over to my house with and idea for a shoot and we just went with it.

The shots came out amazing and I was hooked.  Since then I have done 4 more of these shoots all with different yet amazing results.

The technique is really simple : take some Mehron Gold Metallic Powder and mix it with some grape seed oil.  Then spread it all over the model and spray with water.  

It is a big mess to clean up however, and you have to make sure to leave some skin exposed so the body can breathe.  We found out the hard way in one of the shoots!

Stormrider

Kayla

His 5 books :

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Kae Love is back !

André Brito

Kae Love is back !

Famous and shooted by a lot of my friends, Art Model and photographer Kae Love desires to model again. Be quick to ask her a shooting, she'll be quickly overbooked !

In 2015, I was very sad :

"Friends, my blog here was a great project. It was nice to look back and write about so many meaningful art modeling experiences. I’ve moved on to front end web developing and a few other projects. Keep creating art. Always, Peace, Love and Art. A tender hug."

Today, I'm full of joy to welcome her again and very impatient to admire her new always incredible work.


Some of my favorites and of her renowned talent :

By F.W. Scharpf

No site my friend ?

" Kae Love is a most beautiful, talented and experienced model with whom (as somebody told me) "any hack could make good photos". It also helped that we were not pressed for time and that I could become somewhat familiar with her "philosophy" and how it translates itself into characteristic poses in response to a given setting."

The deep involvement of Kae Love to diversify your models :

If art nudes are about human emotions and human stories, why does it seem like the majority of art nude images are of white models, slender models, young models, and/or female models? No seriously, tell me.

By Alex Ingram

"Cave girls"

With Art Model Joceline

"Snow Kae"

By André Brito

By Dan Van Winkle

UdA Art Editor

"At the Top"

"China Camp"

"China Camp 5"

By Charles E. Nevols

And your official site ?

"Birth"

"Caught in transition"

"Steps"

Dan Van Winkle, some of my new works

An article of Dan Van Winkle

Uda Art Editor

In October, I took a trip to Spain for business.  Due to a tragedy in my girlfriends family, she was unable to join me.  We had planned a weekend in Mallorca after my work.  I had a friend studying in Florence for the year, so rather than spend a weekend along sulking, I invited her and a friend over to do some shooting.  I had no idea how beautiful Mallorca is.  But, I did a little research and crossed my fingers.

All I can say is, wow, what a weekend we had (really just one day).  But this was by far one of the most memorable shoots of my life.  Both for the conditions we had but also, just the fun time we had enjoying life.  Beautiful sunrise, making an awesome break driving on crazy roads, seeing beautiful scenery photographing a wonderful mode, Paella for dinner and finally sipping wine in the chill out.  I think I am blessed.

Here are a few photos from this marvelous weekend.  I plan to write an in depth blog on my website soon.  I hope they are enjoyed!