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Skill: Instead of a paintbrush, Ms Irish employs her rouged lips to create a
portrait of Marilyn Monroe
Jackson Pollock painted with drips, while this young artist paints with her
lips.
Natalie Irish of Houston, Texas paints by putting on lipstick, then pressing her
lips against a blank canvas.
By varying the pressure of her kisses, as if titillating a lover, she can create
large, nuanced images.
In a recent video she uploaded to YouTube (made by Chris O'Malley), Ms Irish
creates a gorgeous portrait of icon Marilyn Monroe, solely with the use of her
puckered lips.
Ms Irish told MailOnline.com that she had learned how to paint pictures with
thumbprints back in high school.
She said: 'I always got a good response from them, but because it had been done
before by other artists, I never felt like it was "my own".
Unique style: Ms Irish has found her own way of adding colour to her life
'I was getting ready to go to a show one night and put on a bit of red lipstick.
I blotted it on a piece of paper and it hit me.
'I started experimenting and decided Marilyn Monroe would be the perfect
candidate for a portrait with kisses!'
Ms Irish admitted that her lips get very tired, and that she owns 'many tubes of
both lipstick and chapstick'.
Jimi Lips: Ms Irish created this Hendrix portrait by kissing a canvas with Urban
Decay lipstick
She said her eyes get tired from constantly moving between very close to farther
back from the canvas to examine her work.
Getting cheeky on her website, natalieirish.com, she wrote of herself, 'There
are rumors that she has been creating works of art since in utero.
'Following her birth, Natalie Irish quickly began to shock and amaze every
entity with her astonishing artwork of all conceivable mediums and dominate all
competitions of the arts'.
Trained: Ms Irish attended the University of North Texas, where she studied
metalsmithing and ceramics
Ms Irish goes on to claim that she earned Best in District at the Houston
Livestock Show and Rodeo Art Competition when she was five years old.
She then went on to study with the Galveston Arts Alliance, and attended the
University of North Texas, where she studied metalsmithing and ceramics.
She also wrote: 'One fateful October night Miss Irish was stricken with a
debilitating and misunderstood disease that hospitalized her for weeks.
'It ultimately left her completely dependent on a machine that was to be
attached to her body 24/7 in order for her to sustain life'.
Ms Irish told MailOnline that the disease she mentioned is type I diabetes. 'I
have been on an insulin pump for going on ten years now', she said.
Cheeky: On her website, natalieirish.com, she writes, 'There are rumors that she
has been creating works of art since in utero'
On her website, Ms Irish showcases a range of colourful drawings and paintings,
only some apparently generated with kisses.
Ms Irish shared with us a brand new picture she did, with her lips, of Jimi
Hendrix.
She said that work is called 'Influence', and that it was a commission for famed
gig poster artist Jermaine Rogers.
She made it by kissing a canvas with Urban Decay 'Confession' lipstick. She
added, 'It was a more sheer colour and had to be applied in numerous layers to
get the darker tones'.
Blank canvas: Ms Irish starts with a fresh space, then starts kissing away, her
lips dabbed with colour
In her '3D' gallery, she also displays sculptures and vases.
She also dabbles in fashion, especially handbags.
No word on whether Ms Irish has any kisses left for loved ones.
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