Artist uses body paint to empower nudity

Spanish artist Claudia Sahuquillo has decided to embrace nudity and swap out her pen and paper for the human body.

She has started a series called Skin is the New Canvas on Instagram to break the stigma around naked bodies and empower nudity.

Her amazing body art has become a phenomenon on Instagram and already earned her 50k followers.

Through her series she hopes to celebrate biological factors as unique, highlighting people’s imperfections, birthmarks, one brush stroke at a time.

It’s all about body positivity and creativity. Using many of the same themes and patterns she uses the contours of the body to enhance her artwork.

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Despite strict Instagram rules about nudity – that don’t allow photos of women breastfeeding – she regularly shares images of painted nipples.

Her public show in Barcelona has up to 20 people a day showing up to support her campaign to de-stigmatise nudity.

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