At first glance, you could be forgiven for believing that these images look like an intimate set of snapshots caught by the photographer at exactly the right time.
However, these touching shower scenes were not captured by a camera - but amazingly
painted by the hand of a New York artist.
Applying paintbrush to canvas, Alyssa Monks pays mind-boggling attention to detail to create them.
And the 31-year-old, who has insisted that she uses no tools in her paintings, has boasted that her creations look even more life-like than photographs.
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Alyssa said: 'I have always wanted to paint for as long as I can remember.
'I took classes at school and then went to college and University before ending up at the New York Academy of Art.
'The girl in most of the pictures is myself. I have used my own image many times because I do not have to worry about issues of self-consciousness that might arise with models.
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Alyssa takes about 1,000 pictures for a small series of paintings, using the images to play with the colour and get the paintings as real as possible.
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She said: 'I use the photographs I take to help me compose and play with the colour, although I invent a lot of the water and steam effects from memory.
'I use lots of different materials to get such realistic images, but nothing out of the ordinary, there are no special tools to achieve these kinds of results.
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