• 'Vanishing artist' makes another (dis)appearance

    China Daily via Reuters

    Artist Liu Bolin demonstrates an art installation by blending in with vegetables displayed on the shelves at a supermarket in Beijing, China, on November 10. Liu, also known as the 'Vanishing Artist', started practising being "invisible" by means of optical illusions more than six years ago.

    China Daily via Reuters

    Artist Liu Bolin smiles as he prepares to blend in with the vegetables.

    China Daily via Reuters

    An assistant shows a photo on a mobile phone to artist Liu Bolin.

    By David R Arnott, NBC News

    Camouflage artist Liu Bolin has been on PhotoBlog before -- blending into a wall of soft drinks in August and into the steps of Paris's Grand Palais in April -- but it's interesting to see these making-of photographs from his most recent stunt.

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  • AP

    Chinese artist Liu Bolin waits for his colleagues to put a finishing touch on him to blend into rows of soft drinks in his artwork entitled "Plasticizer" to express his speechlessness at use of plasticizer in food additives, in his studio at the 798 Art District in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011.

    Chinese artist blends into wall of soft drinks

    By Elena Grothe

    We've seen this artist in action before, and what a sight.

  • Bertrand Langlois / AFP - Getty Images

    Chinese artist Liu Bolin stands at the end of a happening at the Grand Palais in Paris on Friday, April 1. Bolin, from Shandong, China, manages to camouflage himself in any surroundings, no matter how difficult they might be. Standing silently in front of his chosen scene, in locations all around the world, the 37-year-old artist uses himself as a blank canvas.

    The invisible man: Chinese artist painted into oblivion

    By Elena Grothe

    Check out more human camouflage art of Liu Bolin here.