Artist Guido Daniele has turned his hand to creating a wholly different style of painting.
Rather than working on canvas, he uses human hands to produce these stunning animals - like a Technicolor version of the "shadows on the wall" game.
Guido, from Milan, started working with living canvases in 1990, painting the bodies of models for advertising campaigns. Then he began specialising in hands.
The whole process takes anything from two to ten hours - and the models can't even twiddle their thumbs...
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Stabled mate: An outstretched palm depicts the head of a brooding mare
Snakes alive: Daniele painted the intricate scales of a slithering snake
Lofty ambition: Beautiful giraffe design
Parrot fashion: The vibrant hues of everyone's favourite feathered friend
In the pink: Daniele's talent as an artist is really on show here in this majestic flamingo
Branching out: A pair of hands were used to make up this magnificent tree
The eagle had landed: Stunning attention to detail produced this beady-eyed bird
Bird in the hand: But it took two of them to depict a predator in flight
Nothing but a hound-dog: Man's best friend is looking down in the mouth
Taking pride: A fist forms the king of the jungle
It's Michel-handgelo! Amazing pictures which capture the beauty of wildlife on the human hand | the Daily Mail
Amazing pictures which capture the beauty of wildlife on the human hand
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