painters
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LEGO’s ‘The Starry Night’ Brings Van Gogh’s Most Famous Painting Into the Third Dimension
Like many toy companies, LEGO has come to realise that selling directly to adults is just as lucrative as convincing kids to beg their parents for the latest sets. And what better way to convince grownups to welcome LEGO into their homes than with a set that recreates one of the most famous paintings of…
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The Awesome Paintings Of Star Wars Matte Painter Frank Ordaz
Frank Ordaz worked with George Lucas in The Return of the Jedi — among other films — making some of its awesome background matte paintings. When he left the film industry he combined his freelance work with some personal projects involving oil painting. This is a selection I made of his latest work:
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Hyper-Realistic Paintings Look Like Huge Double-Exposure Photos
Armenian artist Tigran Tsitoghdzyan made these gigantic hyper-realistic paintings of women faces appearing magically through their hands. They emulate a photographic technique called double exposure, which combines two exposures of different things over the same film to make a single image.
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These Erotic Images Of Women Are Actually Incredible Oil Paintings (NSFW)
Few artists in the world have the perfect command of lighting, colour, and oil media technique of Yigal Ozeri. His always sensual and sometimes disturbing hyperrealistic art — which usually focuses on women in dreamy and contemplative states — is simply stunning. Warning: Some paintings are NSFW.