I Use Body Paint To Turn My Hands Into Animals

Like most children, I used to love drawing, painting and modelling and like most children I grew out of the habit. When my son introduced me to Instagram three years ago, I thought it was an editing app, but I posted a few pictures and slowly started to develop my own style. I create water art and use food and everyday objects for fun compositions.

Lately, I started painting fun animals and objects on my body. I like to keep the images simple, usually with plain backgrounds and only natural light. I don’t take what I am doing too seriously, to me it’s about having fun and entertaining myself and other people.

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Aravis Dollmenna

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Like most children I used to love drawing, painting and modelling and like most children I grew out of the habit. When my son introduced me to Instagram three years ago I thought it was an editing app, but I posted a few pictures and slowly started to develop my own style, quite early on I decided that I would not use and filters or editing apps, I only have an iPhone and t thought it would be a personal challenge to try to create simple and unexpected images using only the ordinary things I had laying around the house. Some of my favourite subjects are fruit and eggs, I use paint and props to give them a twist, I have also developed a technique which allows me to create images using drops of water...