Mad's World: Picture/Photo Gallery: Amazing Hand Painting (Handimals) by Guido Daniele

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Picture/Photo Gallery: Amazing Hand Painting (Handimals) by Guido Daniele

Amazing Hand Painting (Handimals) by Guido Daniele

The Hand Paintings in the gallery below, dubbed "Handimals", are created by exceptionally talented Italian artist, Guido Daniele.

Guido Daniele was born in Soverato (CZ - Italy) and now lives and works in Milan.

From 1964 to 1968 he attended Brera artistic High School. He graduated from Brera School of Arts (major in sculpturing) in 1972.

He lived in India since 1972 to 1974 where he attended the Tankas school in Dharamsala.

Guido Daniele first got the idea of painting on human hands after an advertising agency hired him to do some body paintings of animals. After researching how best to paint animals onto hands he created his first ‘‘handimal’’, that of the cheetah, shown above. Daniele notes that the hardest part is watching his creations being washed down the drain at the end of the painting day.

In 1990 he added a new artistic experience to his previous ones: using the body painting technique. He creates and paints models’ bodies for different situations such as advertising pictures and commercials, fashion events and exhibitions. His personal artistic research has recently led him to the combination of the two traditional portrait techniques, which are photography and oil painting, laid on photographic support in the same way as Jan Saudek.

See The Gallery Below: