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I just found this guy by mistake while I was doing an image search for pangolins – he is AMAZING!!! Some of these painting are just jaw dropping…I want prints!
http://www.colemangallery.com/
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
-J R R Tolkienawesome light and color understanding that he/she has 🙂
though, despite that all the images are really beautiful sometimes such exact realism is a tad to much. I like his WIPS more than the finished ones.
Yeah… photorealisim is neat and all, but it only really captures my attention when the artist uses it in an artistic setting. Otherwise, why bother? May as well have a photograph!
Like this image takes a bit of both, and I like it:
http://www.colemangallery.com/Images/B11F_Bald_Eagle.jpgYou’ve got the beautiful realisim of the eagle, but there’s no mistaking it for a photo because of how the artist painted it and made use of the abstract texture in the background.
Whereas we have this piece, and while is is VERY nice and well executed… if you looked up duckling photos you’d get a lot of the same sort of thing.
http://www.colemangallery.com/Images/B05F_Mallard_Duckling_%26_Mayfly.jpgJust my thoughts! His work is very nice regardless. 🙂
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artists minds work alike, I was eyeing exactly the same background stile one, though on another raptor on his page, this one:
http://www.colemangallery.com/Portfolio_pages/B06F_Peregrine.html
the heads fully flat mending with the textured back but the wings are like WHOA standing out of the image, you could touch them.
But even then, I think I like this image best somehow:
http://www.colemangallery.com/Images/Paintings%20in%20progress/Cheetahs%26tortoise1.jpg
what leaves me wondering is wheter he used full photo reference or wheter he fixed it togheter. If he used full one, well, then, yay for originality. I’ll use my camera and save the expensive color. No offense, he’s really really great to be able to achieve such a detail, but still.
I miss a scetch section.
scetches are love 🙂 *murrs*I guess I’m just deeply impressed by the skill required to make something look so real you actually could mistake it for a photograph…I mean, for centuries art served the same purpose as photographs a lot of the time…I’m sure some guys back in the day would have given their legs to be able to paint like this dude!
And the one I was most impressed with was the sabre toothed tiger, which I guess does involve what You were talking about Nambroth – photorealism skills plus the use of imagination, since he couldn’t have had a photo of a sabre tooth to work from…
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
-J R R Tolkien
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