Unique Art: Painted Stone Animals by Japanese Stone Artist Akie

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Aren't these adorable?  They are the work of Japanese Stone Artist Akie Nakata.   Some are so detailed they look like the actual creature they are made to represent, like the bird, owl and frog.

An article on Daily Shared indicates Akie is a self-taught artist that loved picking up stones as a child and has been making these creations since 2011.

She sometimes sells her adorable creations through a posting on Facebook  and there are more pictures of her work on that page.

Amazing Body Art

While at first glance it appears that these are creatures of nature, they are actually people painted up and contorted to look like the creature and it is hard to tell how many people until they separate.

It would not only take a lot of skill to conceptualize and paint, it would take a lot of patience and willingness to be uncomfortable to be naked and have someone spend the time it would take to paint the model's body and then have to lay on or contort with other models to make a creature.  You can only pray no one ate burritos before this shoot.