Nice portrait photo isn’t it? Yeah, except that it’s a photo of a painting.
The idea of this painting by artist Dru Blair was born out of a portrait workshop he taught in 2005. In that workshop, he presented his students with a photo portrait he had taken of a local model. Their goal was to reproduce the photo in painting as best as they could. After the class had ended, he decided to test the limits of his painting skills and took it upon himself to recreate the photo, with pretty startling results.
The level of detail is simply stunning. For example, to reproduce the skin a combination of about 20 colors were used and even subtle visual elements in the original photo such as the halo effect on the earrings have been preserved in the painting. According the artist, 99% of the painting was done using airbrush, while other techniques involving colored pencil, x-acto knife and eraser were also used, especially to add realism to fine textures of the skin and hair.
Visit Dru Blair’s site here
This post was written by bullets on May 21, 2007
Super tare!!Chiar mai exista artisti in ziua de azi? Credeam ca s-au ratacit prin groapa marianelor