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Hyperrealistic Paintings By Javier Arizabalo Garcia

Spanish Artist Paints Hyper-Realistic Human Figures in Oil

While most portrait artists focus only on their subject’s facial features, Javier Arizabalo Garcia, a Spanish painter, focuses on every human body part to create incredibly realistic paintings. He holds special mastery in painting hands, often considered to be one of the most difficult parts to draw. This is what sets him apart from the …

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Realistic Paintings of Italian Wildlife Painter Makes People Sit Up and Take Notice

If you want to see tigers, lions, and other wild beasts, you don’t have to travel to the jungles of Africa and Asia, just have a look at the incredibly life-like paintings of Marco Grasso, a 21-year-old Italian wildlife painter. So realistic is his depiction of wild animals that they seem to jump out of …

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British Contemporary Artist’s Incredibly Realistic Paintings Look Like Photographs

If someone doesn’t tell you, they’d seem like ordinary photographs of places and scenes that one comes across every day or in picture postcards. Actually, these are incredibly crafted paintings of Darren Reid, a contemporary realist painter based in Derbyshire, England. His creations look so real they can easily be mistaken for photographs. Reid is …

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Realistic Underwater Paintings Make The Viewers Feel Submerged In Water

One of the most difficult things to achieve in painting is to paint people and objects underwater. The distortion caused by water and the play of refracted and reflected light, interspersed with dark shades, is certainly difficult to portray accurately on canvas. However, here’s an artist by the name of Abi Whitlock, who’s totally at …

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Wildlife Artist Paints Realistic Animals That Seem Like Photographs

It’s really a wonder how childhood impressions can compel people to take up what they had seen when they were young. This is what happened with Peter Stewart, who as a child, carried the fond memories of his school excursion in a local game reserve in KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa to become a wildlife artist. …

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