SHANNON HOLT

Shannon Holt is a fine art Body Painter and classically trained visual artist from Florida. She started her career firstly by painting Female Figurative subjects, but then progressed to actually using the female Body as a canvas and painting on her models instead. She first began in 2008 and in 2009 she became a professional body painter.
One piece of work that she has done that particularly interest me is her 'Florida Wildlife series'.

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These portraits are so mesmerizing to me. I love the way she contorts the body of the model to create different shapes and way of looking at the boy as a whole. This series of Art is almost an illusion to me, the way she's manipulated the body, an used the body to her advantage. The Model beneath the art is almost invisible and is secondary to me. 

I want to attempt something similar, interpreting nature and animals onto the body. My basis is more fashion orientated however, only giving the essence of the animal, an interpreting their key features into my design.