Body Art

May 1, 2014

Tal Peleg Continues to Amaze with Dazzling Eyelid Paintings

Israeli makeup artist Tal Peleg doesn't just use cosmetics for a little pop of color or to conceal a blemish. No, she's turned eye makeup into an art form where the eyelid is her canvas. Her tools are eye shadow and eyeliner, and with them she transforms the skin around it into tiny and intricately-detailed paintings. We've been wooed by Peleg's charming work before and continue to be amazed at what she can do.

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July 8, 2013

Amazing Body Art Inspired by Nature

Fine art body painter Johannes Sttter blends his subjects into their surroundings by skillfully applying paint to their skin. He uses the human form as his canvas to both camouflage into their environments and mimic forms found in nature. The illusionary subjects in Sttter's growing collection of creations range from fruits and vegetables to trees, rocks, and wildlife. Each piece that the artist completes reflects a unity between man and nature.

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December 6, 2010

Hypperrealist Sharpie Man by Alexa Meade

Aligned with Alexa is a new piece by the one and only Alexa Meade. Alexa continually blows us away with her originality. Here she sits next to what looks like a man created with a black Sharpie! (But we all know it's actually another one of her amazing illusions.) Alexa sent us these photos and explained to us that Aligned was performed at Red Dirt Studios in DC.

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August 31, 2008

Camouflage by Liu Bolin

No, this isn't Photoshopped. In his series “Camouflage,” Beijing based artist Liu Bolin paints his subjects from head to toe to camouflage them almost perfectly into the background.

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