Vintage Black and White Photo in real Life

We have posted drawing cut-outs in real life situations before, but this is the first time that we have seen this done with vintage Black and White Photographs.  Yorch Miranda cleverly positions them in funny or interesting situations, using them to tell as story for which he gives a title and the image, the rest is for us to imagine.

Photo Realistic Paintings with Textured Finish

Marco Grassi is an Italian artist that paints incredibly realistic art, in order to showcase, just how good his work is, we have added, for each painting, two more detailed ones, as you will be able to see below, the bigger scale photographs do not diminish the quality of the detail you get.  As well as getting the colour, texture and the slight translucency of the skin absolutely right, Grassi also adds textures like Paint, Stone, Ceramics and various Materials to great effect.  Enjoy...

Photo-realistic Minimalism in Surreal Paintings

Irish Artist Nigel Cox upon leaving college, embarked on a three year Transglobe Expedition, with Sir Ranulph Fiennes.  During his travels, predominately across sea and ice, he came across some beautiful but very remote areas, where there was almost a lack of detail in the landscape, where everything was quiet and any detail stood out from its surroundings.  Cox brought these experiences into his style of painting, he calls Photo-realistic Minimalism.  They almost look like, people plucked from their day to day lives and transported into a world without detail, forcing us to concentrate on the person, eliminating all of the distractions created by our everyday surroundings.  More below...

Paper Cut, Celebrity Photo Realistic Portraits

We are really impressed with the work that Yoo Hyun produces, he slices and crumples the paper in order to create realistic portraits of famous people.  Below we have tried to show just how he manages to accomplish this beautiful effect, by adding an animation, plus another close-up detail.  The advantage that come with this kind of art is that, to refresh it, you just need to change the background and the images will adopt a completely different feel.  Enjoy...

Surreal Photo Manipulations and the Lantern

Accomplished Photographer and Digital Artist Even Liu is based in in Hong Kong.  His passion for photography spans in many different directions including cityscapes, landscapes and also nature photography.  Today we are going to cover Liu's photo manipulated images, that he puts together using his own library of photographs.  As a side note, you may notice that, most picture have an illuminated lantern in them, so we have decided to leave the lantern image last (we don't know if they have a special meaning for Liu).

Fireworks & Flames

Photographer, Painter and photo-manipulator Mathieu Degrotte aka MD-Arts produced these fantastic displays of light. Enjoy the Animated gifs as well as the still, long exposure photographs in the article.  More of these picture and more of his art on his site.  Please give it some time to load the 6 Animated gifs,  (the loading speed will depend on your internet speed).

Photo Realistic Watercolour Paintings

Before now, we had never seen photo realistic watercolour Paintings, Joe Francis Dowden has definitely shown us something new.  We have included a video that show part of two paintings where Dowden gives us some helpful tips.  The help is  not too in depth, as he is and Book Author, writes magazine articles, Presents TV, DVD’s, seminars, demonstrations and holds classes on a regular basis.  I think that if he divulged too many secrets it might hurt his income.  In this post we are sharing with you his love for the British Countryside.

Quilling - Paper & Photo Portraits

Latvian Artist Eugenia Evseeva creates the lovely quilling portraits.  Wikipedia Defines this form of Art as; (Quilling or Paper Filigree is an art form that involves the use of strips of paper that are rolled, shaped, and glued together to create decorative designs).  Evseeva uses pictures for the face and the body and uses the coloured paper for the hair, clothes, flowers, jewellery and hats.  See if you can spot some of the celebrities.

Colour and Details in Photo Real Drawings

22 year old American Artist, Morgan Davidson has always had a passion for art and for drawing in particular.  She wants to build up a business as a freelance Artist, consulting with people and businesses out there to interpret their ideas and translate them into art.  Davidson's subject matter is quite varied and very rich in colour, we have brought together, in this post, a sample of them.  Enjoy...

Surreal Night Time Photo Manipulation

Photo manipulator wyldraven, creates these expressive images with a distinctive Surreal feel to them.  Even though there are some scenes with Death, they are full of fun or with a double meanings.  The photos seem to be very serene with no menacing protagonist looking back at you.  Beautiful scenes that make us appreciate the tranquil feeling you can just get during night time.

Creating Surreal Worlds with Photo Manipulation

Indonesian Graphic Designer Jati Putra Pratama enjoys manipulating photographs to create new worlds, where the laws of physics don't always apply.  Beautiful dream inspiring images that, populate Pratama's waking thoughts, he now shares with all of us to enjoy...

Surreal Miniatures - Photo Manipulations

American Photographer Zev Hoover aka (zevhoo) creates these clever photo manipulations, setting people in a variety of different worlds and activities.  Not only does he have a great imagination,  his execution is excellent as well.  Enjoy...

Surreal Photo Manipulation to Suit your Mood

Turkish Student and Digital Artist Akşam Gunesi aka (beyzayildirim77), produces very different surreal images, some time exploring, various themes with the same background.  Mixed among these images are some thought provoking ones and some really cool/funny images, like the giraffe chilling out.  Surreal Images to suit what ever mood you are in.

Reflections in Art - Photo Realistic Paintings

Photo Realist, Painting Artist Daryl Gortner, loves to paint objects with intense color, brightly lit and items that provide a reflection or shimmer.  The paintings are always a lot bigger than the original counterparts, because Gortner wants you to loose yourself in the details, notice little things that you would have otherwise missed, had the painting been to scale.  Given the level of detail that goes into one of her paintings, it can take up to a month to complete one.

Photo Real Comic Book Coloured Drawings

Ramos Ruben (xoramos661) draws beautiful coloured art, the ones we are going to cover in this post are his Comic Book ones.  As many artists nowadays, he includes in the pictures, all of the pens he used for his drawings, which helps inspire us to try and replicate his work.  Amazing shading, reflections and light reflections, make these drawings very cool to look at.

A Hobby of Surreal Photo Manipulations

xetobyte Norvz Austria is a self taught digital artist from the Philippines.  In his profile he recalls how, he started doing photo manipulation when he couldn't find a wallpaper that he liked, so he decide to make his own.  He must be very popular with the people that follow his art, as he has had to put a notice to say that, his art is just a hobby and that he doesn't take commissions.  Enjoy these fascinating Surreal Images...

Eclectic Mixture of Photo Realistic Paintings

American Painter Tony Curanaj, paints very realistic work that spans many different subject matters, from portraits to still life and everything in between, including pictures within pictures.  On some of his painting we have included his the source of inspiration, so that you can see and compare it to the original.  Beautiful details exalted by the vivid colors and the light he is able to shine in his paintings which, make them a joy to look at.

Miniature Photo Studio Building from the 1900s

Turkish artist Ali Alamedy, spent 9 moths on this project, building from scratch every single piece.  He has had to do a lot of research, in order to create a Photographic Studio, which could have existed, in the 1900s.  To bring this room to life, Alamedy has had to build, paint, all sorts of materials that include materials like wood, plastic, copper, paper and more.  We have included below a lot of pictures so that we can all appreciate the amount of work that went into this Miniature Diorama.

You Are what You Eat - Photo Manipulation

American Artist Sarah DeRemer has done and has tried many things in her life, all of these experiences have enriched the art she makes and the diversity of concepts she approaches in it.  As well as achieving a degree in Studio Art, she has worked as a Veterinary Technician and is currently Teaching English in South Korea, whilst dedicating her spare time to Photography, with a particular interest in digital art and photo manipulation.  Below are a few examples of her work including "You Are what You Eat" and other.

Black and White Photo of Surreal Animal's Downtime

Thomas Subtil is brilliant at photo manipulation.  Amongst all of his work, we have decided to concentrate on his work with animals.  The First collection he calls Hakuna Matata meaning "no worries", in which Subtil explores what animals, in the wild, do with their downtime.  When the food has been taken care of and all the important day to day things have been attended to, it is time for play and this is how they do it.  The second collection is called Animetro, animals using the metro or underground to get to work, or some retail distraction or play.  Enjoy...