Back when pregnant women wore mumus to hide their bumps, a mom-to-be saved her decorating efforts for the nursery. But just as maternity fashion has changed dramatically, some women have taken to ...

Each time she paints a pregnant belly, Xiomara Babilonia approaches her naked canvas with care, its warm curves gently rolling beneath her brush like a placid ocean teeming with life. It is precious, ...

It’s cute when kids get their faces painted. It’s scary when Tom Cruise does. It’s just plain weird when pregnant women get their bellies painted, but that’s a trend, according to the New York Daily ...

Expectant moms are adding pizzazz to pregnancy with belly painting. "It's just so wonderful. It's a pleasant experience, and then you get photos!" said mom-to-be Liz Berger, who spoke to 69 News while ...

Husbands draw pictures on their pregnant wives' bellies at a stadium in Hefei, Anhui province, on Jun 11, 2017. A total of 897 mothers-to-be participated in the event, which was recognized by the ...

Mom-to-be Heather Matthews is all smiles while wearing an “Oh Baby” crown at a belly painting class in Troup hosted by the Wonder Women Outreach Program on Sunday. The Wonder Women Outreach Program ...

Pregnancy and birth may be a couple of the most common experiences known to humanity, but they are notably under-represented in the Western canon of visual art. Beyond representations of the Virgin ...

A recently discovered painting by the 16th-century artist Lavinia Fontana being offered at a Sotheby’s Old Master sale on Thursday is thought to be a self-portrait of the artist painted while she was ...

“The belly is the perfect surface. It’s nice and round,” Thompson said. Okay, so next we may see famous artists taking advantage of this underutilized platonic ideal of surface and doing belly-work.