Last year we told you about a painter named Vincent Castiglia, who has made a name for himself by using his blood to create unique works of art. And he's not the only one doing it...
As we spotted over on Oddity Central, British artist Marc Quinn began his 'Self' series back in 1991, where he literally drains mass quantities of blood from his body, and uses the red stuff to form macabre self-portraits. To create the portraits, Quinn extracts up to five liters of his blood over a period of five months, which he pours into detailed molds of his face. Inside the mold, the blood is frozen, and when extracted, a bloodly replica of his face is left behind.
Quinn makes a new self-portrait every five years, and he says that the project was designed to document the changes in his face, as he gets older. The blood heads are stored in refrigeration units at a constant temperature of -15 degrees Celsius, to ensure that they don't melt down into bloody puddles of gore.
Learn more, and see more, over on Quinn's website.