YOU’VE got to hand it to this artist –painting amazing pictures using her own palm as a canvas.
Svetlana Kolosova creates quirky and detailed designs on her left hand, inspired by fairy-tales and her own imagination.
The 30-year-old can spend between one and three hours painstakingly applying the paint to her hand.
Svetlana Kolosova creates quirky and detailed designs on her left hand, inspired by fairy-tales and her own imagination.The 30-year-old can spend between one and three hours painstakingly applying the paint to her hand.
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Hand art ... Svetlana Kolosova creates amazingly detailed designs
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But the stunning designs only last ONE DAY before she has to wash them off.Svetlana, from Moscow, said: “I have a lot of paintings on canvas and paper, but the drawings on the palms of the hands I invented myself about five years ago.”
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| A dab hand ... painter creates extraordinary designs
The poet and songwriter started by drawing leaves that she wrote about in her poems.She
said: “In my poems leaves are often compared with the palms so I thought why not use my
hand as a canvas?''
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| Lifelike ... mermaid
Svetlana first outlines her plans for the picture with a gel pen and then uses watercolours to
complete the painting.
She believes that an advantage of drawing on the body is that the pictures are not static.
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| Gripping ... hand art She said: “These pictures can move. If you compress or decompress your hand a little or
bend the fingers, then the painted angel tilts its head or spreads its wings.
Svetlana admits she feels sad when she has to cleanse her hand of the image, saying: “Such
pictures can only live one day, then they have to be washed away.”
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| Night scene ... Svetlana uses her own imagination and fairy-tales as inspiration |
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| Wintry scene ... Svetlana was inspired to paint her hand after writing poems about leaves |
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