Sometimes you go to school to study one thing and end up something different and more fulfilling. Shannon Holt is a classically trained visual artist who went from painting on canvass to painting on humans. Holt graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Tyler School of Art Philadelphia/Rome in 1998. After tuning her paint brush skills on wood, textiles, metal and even cigar boxes, Holt switched to people, using women as canvass in 2008. Within a year, she became a professional body painter. Her current collection, *Florida Wildlife Series*, has her models contouring their bodies upside down, and sideways to give the shape of the animal she is painting. For example, two models embrace to complete the pose of a Florida panther while five people make up the face of a fox. Using people of different shapes gives her room to use the bodies to complement the vivid and life-like works. Follow Holt on [Facebook][1] and her [website][2]. [1]: https://www.facebook.com/shannonholtbodyart [2]: http://shannonholtart.com/
