Lana focuses on organs and the circulatory system. Cheryl Ann does the bottom half of her model, focusing on skeletal & muscular structures. She also, of course, goes on & on about who she studied under in Madrid & how many years she took anatomy. Stop it, Cheryl Ann, but I feel like you can’t help yourself.
Another thing – I love RuPaul. Love him. But I’m getting tired of the puns and cheesy lines. His performance this season feels way too plastic, for lack of a better term. Maybe he’s trying to match the energy of Craig Tracy, which isn’t very high. I know the judges aren’t supposed to be the focus of a reality show, but man this show needs a Michael Kors. He could judge while still having personality and entertaining.
Lana & Cheryl Ann are the top 2 painters with Cheryl Ann winning.
For the main challenge, the little petite female models have been replaced with huge male bodybuilders. Because they have a bigger canvas the artists only get 4 hours to paint these guys up in a full-body robot-character design.
Rio’s not really feeling painting the male models. Here’s his reaction:
Avi goes personal & creates a robot to protect his mom in Israel. Cheryl Ann gives her take on a robot which involves a bear. Because she had a dream about a bear. Whatever Cheryl Ann. Lana’s robot is a blood donor robot, which is probably my favorite idea. Aryn’s robot is jet-plane based. She’s not real sure about all of this. Rio’s robot protects the President. It’s not a great back-story & we get a lot of screen time where he talks about his background, so I have a feeling Rio will be leaving us today.
I’d like to call out probably the best thing about this episode – Rebecca & Robin’s dresses when they walk-around & check in with the artists. Want.
OMG Cheryl Ann stop painting circles! Gah! She just can’t paint a character, she’s got to put some kind of collage-cartoony art on it.
Avi and Lana are the top 2 painters for the main challenge. The judges resonated with Avi’s personal story that formed the basis of his design. Lana’s design was monochromatic but a great idea. Plus she used her model’s special talent of being able to flex his pecs.
Avi wins the challenge.
Cheryl Ann is the first artist sent to safety & you can see it all over Aryn and Rio’s face that they’re super annoyed by that fact. Aryn is shown keeping her mouth shut.
In the end, Rio is going home & he goes off on Cheryl Ann. Craig Tracey isn’t having it. He counsels Rio to focus on his own art & his own process.
What did you all think? Was it Rio’s time, or should Cheryl Ann have gone since she painted yet ANOTHER design with all sorts of circles instead of a robot. Are you hoping to see something other than robot Ru on Skin Wars? (Seriously, he just sat there & blinked when Rio poured his heart out? Really?)