Don't Believe Your Eyes! Hyper-realistic Paintings on Naked Bodies By Craig Tracy

Craig Tracy is an American artist who can paint hyper-realistic scenes on naked bodies of his models. A single work of art takes Craig days of planning and preparation while the actual paint application can take a whole day. He spends up to nine hours painstakingly applying water-based paint to his volunteers' bodies before photographing them in unique poses. It’s a major feat for models too who have to maintain the specific pose for hours on end. Some of his paintings use only human volunteers while on others he merges them with backdrops to give the display depth. His creations are so complex that it's difficult to distinguish between the art and the bodies. You have to look very closely to make out the nearly invisible bodies in the photographs.

Craig uses traditional paintbrush for the majority of the work with airbrush being used about twenty percent of the time. Finger-painting, sponging, splatter and dripping are also part of the process.

“I'm often inspired by a specific body's shape or perhaps a unique pose. I'm greatly inspired by aspects of culture, nature and intellectual constructs”, says Craig Tracy.

Craig says that he never uses the same body twice unless if another new body becomes a part of the composition. “I will also make exceptions if the painting is limited to a small body part such as hands, feet or a face. I love the adventure of working with a unique individual each and every time”, the artist adds.

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They Are Not Photoshopped! Creepy Body Arts By Chooo-san

Photoshopped picture? Nope!

Chooo-san, as people call her, doesn’t need to bother with photoshopping her pictures because she has a superb, unusual talent.

With nothing more than acrylic paint, she can turn herself into a battery-operated cyborg, or even into an alien with many eyes.

When studying for her entrance exams, Chooo-san started drawing on her arm. Amazingly, the doodles turned out to look surprisingly realistic. Since then, she frequently draws on her arms and face.

This Japanese university student’s talent is truly remarkable! I want to have her draw anything on my arm!

Check out some more of her work by visiting her Tumblr page.

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Incredible Paintings By Artist Omar Ortiz -- So Realistic They Look Like Photographs

 A beautiful hyper-realistic painting by artist Omar Ortiz (nsfw). Such an incredible use of paint to create depth of focus and the reflection of light on skin.

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Xiaonan Sun Draws Portraits With Both Hands At The Same Time Has Become A YouTube Sensation

Xiaonan Sun has become a YouTube sensation after a video of him drawing the portraits of Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins with both hands, at the same time, went viral. It’s definitely one of the coolest things I have ever seen.

And if you still don’t think what Xiaonan does is impressive, you should know he is also self-taught. The guy actually went to business school and only realized he wanted to study art in his senior year. So he bought an expensive painting kit, but even though he enjoyed painting, the expensive materials and messy oil paints made him turn his attention to charcoal. He would always doodle during classes, in college, without realizing he was actually practicing for an artistic career. The talented young artist then saw someone do a time-lapse drawing video on YouTube and thought it was a great idea, so he started doing his own.

During an interview with Tom Clocker, of Examiner.com, Xiaonan Sun said he usually takes 2-3 hours to complete his detailed portraits, whether they are done with one hand or two. Although he works a little slower on ambidextrous portraits, it doesn’t take him twice as long as a single figure, because he’s working with both hands.

He hasn’t yet sold any of his portraits to actual celebrities, he was contacted by Ripley’s Believe It or Not to have his Shawshank simultaneous two-handed drawing and video displayed in their odditorium. Check out his official website for more great artworks.

 

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Dust Paintings: Artist Uses Dust To Create Amazing Portraits

Los Angeles-based artist Allison Cortson collects dust from the homes of her subjects and incorporates the particles into the background of their portraits. Over a period of months, she collects dust from vacuum cleaners bags of her subjects and then painstakingly create the detail in the images by spraying glue onto the canvas and sprinkling it with the dust.

Allison Cortson said dust is the perfect material because it is actually created by the people in the paintings. "I was sitting on the couch watching dust particles float around in the light coming through the window and the idea came to me. I'm interested in the fact that the older we get, the more dust we create - it is made up of 70 per cent dead skin. I enjoy painting people and thought dust would be the perfect material to represent them in their own environment."

The painting is completed by rendering the subject in a realistic manner with oil paints and the rest of their environment is made solely out of the dust from their home, which she sprinkles dust into the background of the portrait and maneuvers the pieces with a brush. Finally, she coats the work with an acrylic sealer.

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Mind-blowing 3D-Portraits of People Using Screws

American artist Andrew Myers uses screws to create amazing 3D-portraits of people. Myers spends two or three days and up to ten thousand screws for each piece. He takes a sheet of plywood, makes a sketch of a portrait in pencil, and then begins to place the screws at different depths turning a flat image into a volume masterpiece.

You can find more of Andrew’s work at his website HERE.

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