A student poses with her painted face, ahead of New Year celebrations at a college in Chennai on December 28, 2024. (Photo by R. Satish Babu/AFP Photo)
Three workers prepare to paint some traditional umbrellas in Bogor, Indonesia in the second decade of October 2023. The daily wage is the equivalent of the cost of selling one umbrella to a tourist. (Photo by Achmad Mikami/Solent News)
Nigel Cox and Kevin Jay paint with light using fibre optic whips on the beach at Clacton-on-Sea in Essex, United Kingdom on July 25, 2023 with a superhero fighting theme. (Photo by Kevin Jay/Picture Exclusive)
Hickman's experimental art, which reflects the vein-like extensions that electrical charges burn into surfaces they come in contact with, are referred to as Lichtenberg figures. The diverging patterns present in each of the artist's "paintings" are natural occurrences from subjecting the panels to tiny lightning storms through a handy device known as a particle accelerator. Hickman is like a modern-day Zeus, painting with lightning bolts.
A man with a painted face and traditional costumes takes part in the Schleicherlaufen festival in the western Austrian town of Telfs February 1, 2015. (Photo by Dominic Ebenbichler/Reuters)
Female soldiers with their faces painted in the colours of the Venezuelan flag, march during a military parade to celebrate the anniversary of Venezuela's independence in Caracas, July 5, 2015. (Photo by Jorge Dan Lopez/Reuters)
A hostess sits at a restaurant with paintings depicting Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej hanging on a wall in Bangkok, Thailand, June 6, 2016. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)
Mothers-to-be show their belly paintings in Hefei, east China's Anhui province on May 8, 2020. (Photo by Rex Features/Shutterstock/China Stringer Network)