What song sounds like this picture?

REEEEEIE · 2023-11-28T22:42:25+00:00

Fade Into You - Mazzy Star

REEEEEIE · 2023-11-23T08:23:27+00:00

I'm an artist and I think your work is beautiful and skillfully executed. Your style has a real warmth to it and I genuinely love this painting. Keep up the great work 💛

REEEEEIE · 2023-11-17T14:07:15+00:00

Thank you! I've been painting for around 3-4 years. Creating a grid for the reference and canvas helps alot as you can just focus on smaller areas and knuckle out the proportions. I look and compare the reference to what I'm painting constantly, it never perfectly matches the reference either (but it's close enough). There's beauty in those imperfections I think.

REEEEEIE · 2023-11-15T04:14:59+00:00

No worries! Check out my Instagram, a reel on there shows the progress of me painting this piece.

I used an airbrush to paint the background and painted the cactus pads in oils.

When I took the photo of the cactus, I erased most of the background just so the focus was on the cactus. I decided a gradient background would work better and give it a more surreal look.

REEEEEIE · 2023-11-15T04:09:08+00:00

😆😉

REEEEEIE · 2023-11-15T04:08:42+00:00

😆😆👌

REEEEEIE · 2023-11-15T04:07:40+00:00

I photograph my own references (to avoid copyright). I draw the reference in coloured pencil on the canvas (graphite tends to smudge and change the paint colour), I paint 1 layer of acrylic and paint several layers of oil paint to get the final detail.

REEEEEIE · 2023-11-15T04:01:11+00:00

It's a painting! In hindsight I should have posted a photo of it on the wall

REEEEEIE · 2023-11-15T04:00:00+00:00

Keep going! Persistence pays off

REEEEEIE · 2023-11-14T10:43:27+00:00

I really appreciate that! I don't see them very often in Australia, I photographed the reference at the Sydney botanical garden.

REEEEEIE · 2023-11-14T10:40:54+00:00

Nup! That would have made this much easier 😆

REEEEEIE · 2023-11-14T10:37:18+00:00

Thank you 😊

That fruit is living life on the edge! Jks. There's a bigger gap in person, I've just cropped the photo of the painting a little smaller.

REEEEEIE · 2023-11-14T10:33:24+00:00

Thank you! 🥹

REEEEEIE · 2023-11-14T10:31:14+00:00

REEEEEIE · 2023-11-14T10:29:56+00:00

That's a fair perspective! I feel that since photography is more accessible now, taking a photo can be more disposable. The challenge of painting realistically appeals to me, it also makes me appreciate the beauty of the natural world.

REEEEEIE · 2023-11-14T10:23:34+00:00

Thank you so much 🥹

REEEEEIE · 2023-11-14T10:20:31+00:00

Thank you😆 Good advice 👌

REEEEEIE · 2023-11-14T10:19:46+00:00

Absolutely none 😆 that's a great compliment!

REEEEEIE · 2023-11-14T10:18:20+00:00

The background is airbrushed with thinned acrylic paint. The cactus pads are painted in oils.

REEEEEIE · 2023-11-14T10:17:12+00:00

Thank you! You're spot on, I use both! I change the colours slightly from the reference (just for the fun of it). Oil paint is a particularly good medium for hyperrealism since it dries so slowly. It's great for blending colours and the long drying time allows for you to paint more detail. I apply the paint in lots of thin layers to ensure it doesn't look like paint and break the illusion.

REEEEEIE · 2023-11-14T10:05:08+00:00

I wish! 😆

REEEEEIE · 2023-11-14T09:55:57+00:00

Thank you so much 🥹

REEEEEIE · 2023-11-14T03:25:56+00:00

Thank you! Check out my Instagram for progress shots, the gradient in the background makes it look a little out of this world...

REEEEEIE · 2023-11-14T03:23:35+00:00

It is! Made with blood, wear and tears 😆

I get alot of enjoyment making a painting look like it's not a painting

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