New Delhi:
A slip of the tongue can be very embarrassing usually. Then again, Anil K is no usual, ordinary man. When he puts tongue to canvas, masterpieces emerge.
Yes, that's right. Anil creates artwork using his tongue as a paint brush. While that may be distinctly strange, it's also rather fascinating.
The 35-year-old school teacher from Kerala has twisted and turned his head on over 1000 paintings, using just his tongue as his brush. And the collection even has an eight-foot Da Vinci portrait of Jesus Christ. For obvious reasons then, Anil K has stormed the internet with videos of him 'licking up a beauty' stunning netizens on Youtube.
So why use tongue? "I wanted to be a different kind of an artist," he was quoted as saying in some media reports recently.
And while most 'struggle' to draw a straight line in this age of keyboards, tablets and smartphones, Anil K can shoot from his mouth and paint up a storm with nonchalant ease.
But wait, there are the side-effects too.
"After painting, I experience pain in my jaws, headaches, slight loss of vision and dip in memory," he says. "These last for about two weeks."
'These' are fine though because when he is giving his tongue some much needed rest, Anil K uses his nose, chin, elbows and feet. "For the Guiness Records, I'm going to paint four portraits with both my hands and both feet at the same time," he claims.
Remarkable as his abilities may be, here's the much needed statutory warning: painting with your tongue can be injurious to health. Please do not try this at home. Unless of course, you answer to the name of Anil K who may be at a loss for words at times but is never tongue-tied when it comes to making art.
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Yes, that's right. Anil creates artwork using his tongue as a paint brush. While that may be distinctly strange, it's also rather fascinating.
The 35-year-old school teacher from Kerala has twisted and turned his head on over 1000 paintings, using just his tongue as his brush. And the collection even has an eight-foot Da Vinci portrait of Jesus Christ. For obvious reasons then, Anil K has stormed the internet with videos of him 'licking up a beauty' stunning netizens on Youtube.
So why use tongue? "I wanted to be a different kind of an artist," he was quoted as saying in some media reports recently.
And while most 'struggle' to draw a straight line in this age of keyboards, tablets and smartphones, Anil K can shoot from his mouth and paint up a storm with nonchalant ease.
But wait, there are the side-effects too.
"After painting, I experience pain in my jaws, headaches, slight loss of vision and dip in memory," he says. "These last for about two weeks."
'These' are fine though because when he is giving his tongue some much needed rest, Anil K uses his nose, chin, elbows and feet. "For the Guiness Records, I'm going to paint four portraits with both my hands and both feet at the same time," he claims.
Remarkable as his abilities may be, here's the much needed statutory warning: painting with your tongue can be injurious to health. Please do not try this at home. Unless of course, you answer to the name of Anil K who may be at a loss for words at times but is never tongue-tied when it comes to making art.
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