A Giant Tarantula ? Take Another Look And Get Ready To Be Amazed

By Awesome Daily Staff on July 9, 2014

At a first look you might think the image below is an arachnophobe worst nightmare , but take another look and see that its actually a very flexible women. This image and many others like it are the work of the very talented body painter Emma Fay who transformed this model into a giant tarantula using water based paints

Emma Fay

It took the 27 years old artist five long hours to create this incredible detailed creature and you can below there is a seahorse and a leggy giraffe too. Contortionists Lowri Thomas and Bath Sykes were covered in layers of paint to transform their bodies into these awesome animal artwork

Emma Fay

Emma said “This series of transformations is based on the marvels of the natural world”

Emma Fay

She continues ” The animals featured in this work are both linked to evolution and both have developed over long period of time ”

Emma Fay

First she asks the model to get into the initial pose and marks where they will be, the models can hold their positions for only about 5 seconds so she have to work fast to get it right

Emma Fay

She then keeps painting and repositioning the model until they get it just right.

Emma Fay

One of her models Beth Sykes is also a circus performer , a fire eater , acrobat and stilt walker

Emma Fay

Other projects that included Sykes was her transformed into a lizard , an alien from the movie avatar , a tiger and other wild animals

Emma Fay

She says her flexibility is not all natural, it comes from years of training . she used to train six days a week before and after school. and she loved every minute of it