This ‘illusion’ artist uses her face as a mind-blowing canvas

Enlarge Image Dain Yoon Now you see her, now she’s art. “Illusion artist” Dain Yoon, 26, received traditional training at art school in her native Seoul, Korea, but prefers a more unique canvas than students generally study: her own face. The painter, who now lives in Los Angeles, Calif., is able to functionally transform herself with makeup and other materials. The result is mind-boggling, and it is often difficult to find Yoon’s actual face within the art she has created on top of it. She becomes a Cubist portrait , the other half of a doll and a multiplied version of herself . She posts photos of her surreal finished work on Instagram, where she’s amassed over 623,000 followers. “At first, for my personal art works, I painted on the bodies of models,” she tells The Post via email. […]

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