It's a shelf portrait! Chinese artist spends months creating incredible camouflage pictures
This is one artist who is unlikely to be left on the shelf, if you can find him that is.
Liu Bolin has become so advanced at camouflage art he is virtually able to blend seamlessly in front of a pile of coal or even a forest landscape.
The Chinese artist spends hours perfecting his poses, including three months to complete his impressive Dragon Series in Beijing's Behei Park.
Fitting in: Chinese artist Liu Bolin stands in front of a soft drinks shelf at a supermarket in Beijing
Almost appearing to become part of the enormous dragon sculpture in the capital's famous park, Mr Liu's work is designed to show how we all can just disappear in today's mass production world.
It is not the first time his incredible pictures have emerged as he spends hours positioning himself in front of backdrops with a team of two assistants to paint the camouflage on his clothes.
Touring his work across the glove for the past five years, Mr Lee will open a new exhibit at the Eli Klein Fine Art Gallery in New York this year.
Scaling down: Mr Liu spent three months perfecting this project in front of nine dragon sculptures in Beijing's Behei Park
This one's a bit wooden: The painstaking detail of the paint on his clothing his carried out by two assistants
He said: 'My urban camouflage paint series began after Suojia Village Art Campus where I was working was shut down by the Chinese government.
'My resistance to the force of governments made me experience the life of people with no social status, no job, no family, no income and this was the emotional reason I began my series of works.
'In my work the artist is hiding to restore his strength and to protect himself.
'I wany my viewers to experience China as I know it, where the concept of artists as human beings was once neglected.'
Body his temple: Mr Liu enjoys bursting out at unsuspecting people as they walk past his creations
In some cases, Mr Liu has his assistants paint his body and he remains completely still until an unsuspecting passer-by walks past.
A graduate of the Sculpture Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in China, Mr Liu's work is in high demand.
He added: 'What my generation of artists can make in the current atmosphere of China are that these works are filled with suspicion, melancholy, stimulation, dement and so on.'
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