FORMER Israeli army sniper David Roytman has turned his hand to action painting, using guns and live-fire ranges instead of brushes and studios to blast colours onto canvases.
In Israel, Roytman uses a pistol to shoot bags filled with paint, which then splatters onto a canvas, creating the artwork, Reuters has reported.
In his native Ukraine, he creates paintings in a similar way by using the cannon of a World War Two-era tank.
Roytman, 42, describes the method as a way to exorcise difficult memories from his combat service.
"This is my healing by art.
"When I'm shooting - not at people, not in a war, not during the military service - I'm doing this for my, let's say, fun, for my way to say something to the world," he told Reuters.
"It makes me feel at peace."
Amidst the resulting splashes and holes, he intersperses letters in Hebrew, English and Russian, seemingly at random - an invitation to the viewer to form words.
Twenty of the unusual works have sold for between US$5,000 (A$7,326) and US$10,000 (A$14,652) a piece, said Roytman.
The art's message is that "everybody needs to think when they are sending their boys to fight, to protect their country - they need to remember that when they come back they need support," Roytman explained, alluding to the mental health of veterans.
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