Ray Misra
Body Painter

AnthroCanvassy, Inc.

I paint crazy, delightful designs on you and your friends to amplify the amount of fun you were already having. Because however much you were already enjoying what you were doing, you'll enjoy it even more naked and polychromatic.

I have designed dozens of super-heroes and super-villains, frequently using aboriginal designs and patterns found in nature. (At least a few of my creations are based on the patterns found on tropical fish and frogs.) The same sense of bright color and bold design I bring to a flashy, skintight spandex costume, I can bring to your actual skin. I've done it at the World Naked Bike Ride, I've done it at Burning Man, and I'll do it for you.

I am also a minister with the Universal Life Church--that's the same church John Waters is a minister in--and that means that, technically, I can marry people. I've decided to offer a special wedding package in which I paint crazy designs on the bride and groom, and then marry them.

I am also studying to be a professional massage therapist, and I will be exceptional at it. In 2008, I gave a full-body massage to a girl who told me that I had "pure love coming out of my hands." I take that as a sign that I made a wise career choice. I will eventually offer massage along with body painting services.

I'm also looking into the feasibility of bring my own nude life models who I will paint and employ as living art.

I just started massage school and I need professional massage therapists who will let me practice on them and give me feedback.

Massage Certification, Cortiva Institute, Seattle, WA, est. completion: June 2010.

Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics, University of Massachusetts at Boston, 1996.

Bachelor of Arts, Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1993.

Certificate, International Relations, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1993.

Extensive improvisational training from ImprovBoston University at the Back Alley Theater in Cambridge, MA, 1999. 

My heyday was in the public sector was 1996-1998. That was when I was a full-time VISTA volunteership with Greater Boston One to One (now the Mass Mentoring Partnership), a nonprofit consulting firm offering various services to youth mentoring programs throughout the Commonwealth.  I undertook quality control surveys of the agency's pracices and developed new strategies with the results. I also helped the Communications Director with various logistical and media outreach efforts, manned a telephone hotline for people interested in becoming mentors and coordinated a team of radio professionals who would work together to help promote mentoring.

But you wanted to hear about body painting, didn't you?

When I first learned about the BizNik community, I took it as a challenge to offer a service only I could offer, and that no one else was offering. The rest is, or hopefully WILL be, history.