Can you tell which of these images below are paintings and which are photographs?
Alyssa Monks
Paul Cadden
Tan Wei Kheng‘s paintings of Borneo’s indigenous tribes
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PSYCHE!
They’re ALL paintings! Can you believe it?
Say hello to hyper-surrealism! It’s where paintings are so detailed and intricate, they resemble real-life.
Isn’t that CRAZY!? I need to learn how to do this, pronto. TOTAL MIND-FREAK!
Could you tell?
Oh my gosh – those are unreal! I definitely thought a few were pictures. So cool!
Oh – Fancy That.
I know, right? Totally breath-taking stuff. These artists are geniuses! <3
Wow, can’t believe that – particularly the black and white ones. I’d be interested in hearing more about how it’s achieved – for example, are they working off live models or from already taken pics?
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I agree, I couldn’t believe my eyes when I first saw these pictures too!
HM, that’s an interesting question. I know the artist Tan Wei Kheng works off photographs he’s taken of the different tribes. Maybe because it takes them a while to achieve such a realistic quality (I’m going to get a rude shock if I ever discover one of these people has done a hypersurrealist portrait in 2 days or something amazingly ridiculous like that)? So I shall assume this is true of the rest. Hehe.
Wow, those are amazing! I was so sure the shower ones (especially that second one!) were real!
I couldn’t believe it myself – I was so sure those were photographs! Incredible!
The 2nd one I was sure was real, as with the fourth. DAMN, that’s amazing!
This is all too unbearably cool. These people are seriously talented!!!
Found you guys through WIWT and this has provided some much need procrastination from University work! Oh and I’ve just gone on a online shopping spree inspired by yourselves too….ekk but thank you girlies! x