Hyperrealistic oil paintings

[SATtva]

I find this extremely inspiring, could be of interest to the Lux community too.
Pedro Campos, a hyperrealist painter from Madrid. Canvas, oil.

[Meelis]

AMAZING

How long does he paint all this details?
Hes probably faster than cpu's atleast at that high resolution format he paints on (1x1,6 m for example).

[weltbesiedler]

Can't believe that the pictures are painted. They are looking like photographs

[SATtva]

Russian artist Dmitry Annenkov working in a similar style.

[B.Y.O.B.]

I guess they take a photo first (or make a render ) and use that as a reference.

[SATtva]

Most likely.

[Carbonflux]

The big trick with photorealism in painting has always been the transition to print and designing the painting for this, looking at the actual physical painting close up might be a totally different experience. Under-painting is a big part of this as is the use of color as a way of structuring planes in the image space, in addition you have the tool of projection. These images seem like they are projected because of how the perspective is structured, tho I could be wrong, talent trumps all. This is interesting to me because I have been considering doing some oil paintings where I project a luxrender onto a canvas and paint from it in the same way the old school super-realists would project a photo, so this is a skill and act of craft, not magic. I think its a great reminder of how perception is the measure of reality.

This is not say these are not brilliant paintings, they are, great stuff

[Rhys]

Wow some serious talents here. I find it interesting in some ways they look like nice renders, at least at this format, something about the lack of the minute details and the not-quite-there 'materials' ie; bubbles, sugar on plate, coke can"floor" and in particular the pen/pencil in front of the books.
The first one though is incredibly convincing to be a photo all round.
Some amazing brush and colour handling skills! Cool stuff

[Ze_Blob]

I once saw one of theses guys in action (on TV) and the canvas was very big, like 3x4 meters, if not more. That way it is not that hard to paint little details and it's like Carbonflux has said, like a simple translation from a model. It is specially easy if some sort of projector is used.

It would be really great if theses pictures were made from the mind of the painter, that's still possible in some situations, but it is more likely a reproduction from an existing model. If you divide the original image with a grid, you have to reproduce each of the tiles without thinking about which part of the image it belongs, that way you are in a simple and efficient way of painting. The less you interpret with your analytic brain hemisphere, the better.

Since we see, here, the pictures in very little format, we are easily fooled by the final result.

[Ze_Blob]

Some stunning paintings of that kind:

http://www.hubertdelartigue.com/galerie_details.html