That's what you call body art! Amazing UV pictures painted onto naked women celebrate the female form using images of sunsets, tropical oceans and mountains lit by moonlight

John Poppleton, from California, creates mindblowing works of art painted directly onto human skin using fluorescent paints
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John Poppleton，来自加州，使用荧光色的颜料直接在人体上创作了令人大开眼界的艺术杰作。

Under Black Light is a series of black light photography by artist John Poppleton[CN]

《黑暗光线下》，是画家John Poppleton的“黑暗”作品集名称。

His work features eerie scenes form nature painted with fluorescent UV paints on the backs of female models
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他的作品都来自自然的一些怪诞场景，使用的是有荧光的紫外光染料，画在女性裸体模特背上。

Marrying the beauty of nature and the female form, John photographs his 'works' under black light to produce these extraordinary images[CN]

John把自然之美和女性胴体融合在一起，在黑光之下拍下了这些作品，创作了非比寻常的照片。

The artist at work in his studio (l) John's Under Black Light pictures can be seen on his page on facebook.com/JohnPoppletonUVArt/
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画家在工作室工作一 – John在黑光下的作品集可在facebook的网址facebook.com/JohnPoppletonUVArt/上看到。

A model's hair is also painted so that the waterfall scene etched onto her back appears to begin fro the top of her head (l) and a stunning lilac sunset (r)[CN]

模特也染了头发，这样一来瀑布的场景就蚀刻在她的背部，像从她的头上倾斜而下，下边却是淡紫色的夕阳景色。

Scenes depict spectacular phenomena such as oceans, mountain ranges, shimmering auroras and galaxies in burned oranges, lilacs and greens[CN]

这些场景还描述了一些壮观的现象，比如海洋，山脉，耀眼的极光和星系，有橙色，淡紫色和绿色搅合在一起。

In a project which marries the beauty of the female form with spectacular scenes from nature, an artist has created stunning UV images on women's backs.[CN]

在这样一个融合了女性胴体和自然迤逦风景的项目里，一位画家在女性背部创造了令人惊叹的紫外线照片。

John Poppleton, from California, creates incredible works of art painted directly onto human skin using fluorescent shades of lilac, orange and green and then photographs them with stunning results.
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来自加州的John Poppleton，使用淡紫色，橙色和绿色的荧光色的颜料直接在人体皮肤上创作了不可思议的艺术杰作，然后一拍照得到震撼的效果。

His project, called Under Black Light, consists of 'bodyscapes' of spectacular natural phenomena such as African sunsets, tropical oceans during rainstorm, and mountain ranges under moonlight.[CN]

他的这个计划成为“黑暗光线下“，由很多身体景观，表达壮观的自然现象，比如非洲的日落，暴风雨中的热带海洋，月光下的山脉。

In more otherworldly, eerie designs the artist depicts cosmic scenes of stars, galaxies and shimmering auroras.

His gorgeous painterly scenes are photographed under black light to produce the seemingly glowing images.

John incorporates the curves and shapes of the models into his paintings, and in some the canvas is stretches beyond the back of the model onto the background behind.

The artist dabbled in photography as a hobby until several friends convinced him to photograph their weddings in 1993. He then became a professional portrait photographer as has flourished in the industry for more than 20 years.

It has always been John's goal to create something original and different but fantasy portraits were never part of the plan. 'I wasn't looking for it, it found me', he says.

'Around 2003 Photoshop introduced a new tool called liquify and just to show what it could do I stretched a brides ears and turned her into an elf. ('Lord of the Rings' was in theatres about this time.) It turned out so nice I put a copy in my portfolio and it just evolved from there.

'But things really took off when the owner of a faerie collectable store asked me to create 12 images for a calendar. That's what gave me the biggest push.'

In 2010, while suffering from a sleepless night in a hotel room bed, John received his inspiration for using black light and he was off on what has become the biggest adventure of his career.

John has received numerous awards for his wedding and fantasy portraits through Wedding & Portrait Photographers International, and his work has been featured in many acclaimed photography books.

He now lives in the quiet little town of Wellsville in Northern Utah, with his wife Becky and their three children.