Artists Celebrate Motherhood With Amazing Pregnant Body Paintings--fate yar....

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Both art and giving birth deal with the act of creation, so maybe it’s not a surprise that some pregnant ladies — including Mariah Carey — want to celebrate their nine months with child in an artistic manner.

And artists like Houston-based body painter Vonetta Baker find a round belly the perfect surface for certain types of artistic creations.

"The first belly I painted was my own," she told HuffPost Weird News. "My first instinct is that, since it’s round, I should do something round. But I wanted to play with shades and make a flat surface design look by using shades."

Baker gets as much as $700 for her belly-busting works of art, each of which takes between three and five hours to create, depending on how elaborate a design is used.

"I get a lot of requests for flowers," she said. "Sometimes, a mother wants me to paint what they think the baby might look like. One woman showed me a picture of a gritty ultrasound photo and wanted me to reproduce it in color."

However, her favorite belly painting was something naturally appealing to a woman named Baker.