60+ Mind-Blowing (Hyper) Photo-Realistic Paintings
Watercolor is considered the most difficult painting media because of technique, control and time factors. But in the marketplace, usually watercolors are less expensive than oil paintings. Oil paintings have a higher prestige value and many of the old masters only painted in oil. What makes an old oil painting valuable? What is the main consideration?
Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying oil. Traditional oil painting techniques often begin with the artist sketching the subject onto the canvas with charcoal or thinned paint.
Main reason why oil paint is considered more valuable is the surface, watercolor is usually done on paper, not so valuable and easily bent/crumpled. oil is done on canvas, linen, panel, and surfaces that are usually long lasting and expensive and rather sometimes very large.
In this showcase, let’s take a look at the works of some of the world’s greatest photorealism masters like Roberto Bernardi, Pedro Campos, Tjalf Sparnaay, Erich Christensen, Steve Mills, and many more.
Indian Holy Man
Jim Lentall is the owner for the original photograph of this smudge painted version. The Original Photograph has won the best of the show in a contest sponsored by the digital photography review website.
I Love My Shoes
Jill Beale is a photographer, folk singer, song writer and artist who lives in Canada. Her Original photograph of this smudge painted image was one of the best of show in a photography challenge contest on the digital photography review site.
Almost There
‘Almost There’ was funded by the Arts Council and received corporate sponsorship from Audio Technica. it took a few attempts for application to be successful and something that I had to figure out how to do by trying.
Sculpture
Hyper-Realistic Nude Paintings by Omar Ortiz. The human body is the main element of his paintings and minimalism is one of the strongest features in his compositions.
Peppers and Beans-Oil on Canvas
Glennray Tutor is an American painter who is known for his photorealistic paintings. He is considered to be part of the Photorealism art movement. His paintings are immersed with bright colors, nostalgic items, metaphor, and with a complete focus on detail.
The Deal
Brooklyn-based artist Alex Roulette creates oil based paintings that look incredibly real. In his most recent series titled Fabricated Realism, all the landscapes and subjects that Alex paints are actually invented. They appear to be painted versions of existing photographs, but Roulette is creating events and places and people that never were.
Fried Eggs
Dutch photo-realistic painter Tjalf Sparnaay creates delicious portraits of food that are so detailed and sumptuous you might catch yourself reaching out for a bite. Sparnaay is by his own admission strongly influenced by the Dutch masters Vermeer and Rembrandt.
Realistic Wall Drawings
Passing by these amazing 3D paintings will make you almost believe that there are real people standing by the wall. The paintings are made in such a way that you would probably try to touch the girl that’s leaning on the wall or maybe the old lady that’s resting, because they seem so realistic.
Oriental Lady
This is the digitally Painted Version of another terrific photograph by Rosita S.
Girls Of Iran
Iman Maleki is an Iranian realist painter. His fascination began with the painting when he was a child. He has done his graduation in Graphic Design in 1999. He has presented several paintings in exhibitions and got The William Bouguereau Award. Here we would like to share some of his paintings with you. Cheers!
Changing Us
Robert Lange has spent five weeks in Nepal on a 150-mile hike through the Himalayas. Inspired by the idea of surrendering as an artist, he created
a series of paintings that portray people in possible but not plausible situations.
Fighter Pilot
Michael Peck’s artistic practice is concerned with the sensation of disorientation and dislocation that is often felt within the post modern world. The scenes in Michael’s paintings are quiet, the participants are paused as they stand withdrawn, juxtaposed against a dynamic population; they are overwhelmed by mass-culture.
Floating
Ericzener work reflects our collective desire for transformation into something ideal. His exploration seek to create a sense of sanctuary, often using figure in water, sleep, journeys and nature as a metaphor for renewal and reprise.
Young man
Thanks to Eric Bergin of the Digital photography review website for allowing me to create a digital oil painting from his source photograph of this young man. – Pat Thompson – Painting Link
Praying Girl
Another Photorealistic painting done using the referral image photographed by Anita pepper.
Lilies on the Rocks
Will Faught College grad
Thanks for Bill gracey for the permission to paint and display the painted version of his photograph of his Godson. – Pat Thompson – Painting Link
Emigrant
Iman Maleki is an Iranian realist painter. His fascination began with the painting when he was a child. He has done his graduation in Graphic Design in 1999. He has presented several paintings in exhibitions and got the The William Bouguereau Award. Here we would like to share some of his paintings with you. Cheers!
Old Asian Man
Whole Milk
Q Beach
Brooklyn bridge
Joe Simpson is a figurative painter currently living and working in London. His paintings have been shown both nationally and internationally, including prestigious venues such as Urbis, Manchester City Art Gallery, Cornerhouse and The House of Commons.
Royal Ground
From the forests of Northern Maine, where he was raised, to the streets of San Francisco, Steven Albert’s paintings have always been informed by patterns of clear, bright sunlight and shadows.
Vitamin Water
Ketchup
Ariana Debose
Thanks to Joseph gray who kindly granted permission to paint his photograph of Ariana. – Pat Thompson – Painting Link
Lee Lee Sobieski
Many thanks to David Shankbone for allowing me to paint and display the painted versions of these celebrity photographs. – Pat Thompson – Painting Link
Heavy Crowd
Scrabble
Day dreamer
Wayne is a photographer and artist. His work ethic comes from 21 years of Service in the Canadian Military. No messing around and getting the job done. He uses Adobe Illustrator to create his drawings which also known as vector graphics.
Up for Discussion
Angelina Jolie
Wayne is a photographer and artist. His work ethic comes from 21 years of Service in the Canadian Military. No messing around and getting the job done. He uses Adobe Illustrator to create his drawings which also known as vector graphics.
Diet Coke
On a clear Day
Duffy Sheridan has been painting since he was a child. His father, also an artist, encouraged him to learn to paint anything and everything. Although he and his family spent many years in relative seclusion in the far corners of the world, Sheridan’s work has attracted the attention of collectors on five continents.
The Silver Bangle
Nigel was born in Newry Co. Down Ireland and grew up on the edge of Dundalk, a small market town in County Louth, just below the border and was educated at Dundalk Grammar School. After graduating from Riversdale College in Liverpool he joined the Transglobe Expedition, led by Sir Ranulph Fiennes.
Head Study with,White Scarf
Duffy Sheridan has been painting since he was a child. His father, also an artist, encouraged him to learn to paint anything and everything. Although he and his family spent many years in relative seclusion in the far corners of the world, Sheridan’s work has attracted the attention of collectors on five continents.
Portrait of a Young Man
Isabel
Grateful to brian masson for allowing me to paint one of the girls in his chorus class. also much gratitude to dario acosta, An internationally acclaimed portrait photographer, for allowing me to paint and publish his photograph isabel_Pat thompson…
Summer
“Sometimes I paint pictures that remind me of where I would like to be. I am a summertime boy and long to be on a warm island again” – Duffysheridan
Broken Wing
Boy Fishing in Rowboat
This smudge painting is a composite of two photographs. The boy and the boat were separated images and combined them in Photoshop, and then painted in composite..
Send Off
Mystery Women
A working artist from the UK, my hopes are for Australia to provide a new cultural influence to my work and a maturity only developed through experience.
Draadjesvlees
Slam Dunk
Here is the Digitally painted portrait versions of an original photograph. kiran metha of Leeds metropolitan university England..
En Francais
Albert’s work is represented by galleries in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York and has been exhibited in various museums and venues around America. From the forests of Northern Maine, where he was raised, to the streets of San Francisco, Steven Albert’s paintings have always been informed by patterns of clear, bright sunlight and shadows.
2 Wish
The Miserable Rich
‘Almost There’ was funded by the Arts Council and received corporate sponsorship from Audio Technica. it took a few attempts for application to be successful and something that I had to figure out how to do by trying.
Easy Money
In Thought
Super-realistic vector illustrations that should break that misconception if you still hold it. While it takes considerable work, it is possible to create complicated images that, to the untrained eye, are indistinguishable from life.
Leaning Right
Colori e Sentieri
Street Boating
Art work by Linnea Strid
Outside or Inside
Shooter
Alone in the Forest
Duffy Sheridan has been painting since he was a child. His father, also an artist, encouraged him to learn to paint anything and everything. Although he and his family spent many years in relative seclusion in the far corners of the world, Sheridan’s work has attracted the attention of collectors on five continents.
Playing with danger
Brooklyn-based artist Alex Roulette creates oil based paintings that look incredibly real. In his most recent series titled Fabricated Realism, all the landscapes and subjects that Alex paints are actually invented. They appear to be painted versions of existing photographs, but Roulette is creating events and places and people that never were.
Key Lime
Dutch photo-realistic painter Tjalf Sparnaay makes tasty paintings portrait of eatable things that are so cleared and spectacular you might hold by hand getting out for a bite. Here you can see 20 best realistic food paintings so I should say please control your mouth water…
Bite me
Oil on plywood. Commission.
Girl Painting
This is a great pieces of art made by Odwin Rensen. His work is really amazing and realistic.
Hamburger friet
These are some examples of the photorealistic paintings of the artist which look natural like a photograph. The evolution of technology has brought forth photorealistic paintings that exceed what was thought possible with paintings. These newer paintings by the photo-realists are sometimes referred to as Hyperrealism.
Hope you enjoyed and inspired a lot!
WOW! Are these for real? There is so much talent around the world. Keep up with good posting. Hats off for this list.
Skillful work, but there is nothing creative about taking a photograph and then re-painting it.
Nope, not creative but definitely skillful as you said.
My name is Pat Thompson. I smudge painted many of the photographs contained on this page. To be honest, I don’t consider myself to be a creative person or an artist. I simply used the smudge tool in Photoshop to overpaint the photograph,so that in some cases,at least, the image looks like it was painted rather than photographed. I did process most of the images in Photoshop in order to achieve a more vibrant and/or sharpened look. Just,for the record,though, I think it is important for me to say that it is the photographers who provided great images that deserve a ton of gratitude. And I would never ever classify myself as an artist or suggest that what I do is Art. Anybody who owns a photo editing program and who was willing to take the time to practice using the tools in their program could do the same thing and probably do it better.
Awesome collection.Great Photo-Realistic Paintings.I really enjoy these photo show.Thanks for sharing.
Oh, awesome…
This is a great pieces of art made by Odwin Rensen. His work is really amazing and realistic.
Amazing! Really very creative work.
Bo, it’s not creative work. It’s painting from a photograph. Taking the actual photograph is the creative part.
My name is Pat Thompson. I smudge painted many of the photographs contained on this page. To be honest, I don’t consider myself to be a creative person or an artist. I simply used the smudge tool in Photoshop to overpaint the photograph,so that in some cases,at least, the image looks like it was painted rather than photographed. I did process most of the images in Photoshop in order to achieve a more vibrant and/or sharpened look. Just,for the record,though, I think it is important for me to say that it is the photographers who provided great images that deserve a ton of gratitude. And I would never ever classify myself as an artist or suggest that what I do is Art. Anybody who owns a photo editing program and who was willing to take the time to practice using the tools in their program could do the same thing and probably do it better.
Incredible! I think I’ve spent the past hour on this page!
Those are paintings? Unbelievable! After a closer look I can distinguish some of them as paintings but rest of them look like photographs. That was amazing! I like The Silver Bangle the most.
I completely oppose Tim’s view as I have found creativity in many of them.
Thanks.
I cannot beleive it…
Wonderful Photo realistic paintings..!
Sir Ji what a really mind blowing paintings. now its my wish that one my painting made by you .
but this is not possible :(
i become mad of these paintings ..
now i see daily these pics………
Hats of to you Really !!!
Im speechless! kudos to those colour magicians!
My name is Pat Thompson. I smudge painted many of the photographs contained on this page. To be honest, I don’t consider myself to be a creative person or an artist. I simply used the smudge tool in Photoshop to overpaint the photograph,so that in some cases,at least, the image looks like it was painted rather than photographed. I did process most of the images in Photoshop in order to achieve a more vibrant and/or sharpened look. Just,for the record,though, I think it is important for me to say that it is the photographers who provided great images that deserve a ton of gratitude. And I would never ever classify myself as an artist or suggest that what I do is Art. Anybody who owns a photo editing program and who was willing to take the time to practice using the tools in their program could do the same thing and probably do it better.
My name is Pat Thompson. I smudge painted many of the photographs contained on this page. To be honest, I don’t consider myself to be a creative person or an artist. I simply used the smudge tool in Photoshop to overpaint the photograph,so that in some cases,at least, the image looks like it was painted rather than photographed. I did process most of the images in Photoshop in order to achieve a more vibrant and/or sharpened look. Just,for the record,though, I think it is important for me to say that it is the photographers who provided great images that deserve a ton of gratitude. And I would never ever classify myself as an artist or suggest that what I do is Art. Anybody who owns a photo editing program and who was willing to take the time to practice using the tools in their program could do the same thing and probably do it better.
wow these pictures are unbelieveable i like very much i want to kiss your beautiful hands God bless u
how hard it is to print a photo on canvas and just paint the same colors on it? people like this are destroing meaning of art..
My name is Pat Thompson. I smudge painted many of the photographs contained on this page. To be honest, I don’t consider myself to be a creative person or an artist. I simply used the smudge tool in Photoshop to overpaint the photograph,so that in some cases,at least, the image looks like it was painted rather than photographed. I did process most of the images in Photoshop in order to achieve a more vibrant and/or sharpened look. Just,for the record,though, I think it is important for me to say that it is the photographers who provided great images that deserve a ton of gratitude. And I would never ever classify myself as an artist or suggest that what I do is Art. Anybody who owns a photo editing program and who was willing to take the time to practice using the tools in their program could do the same thing and probably do it better.
Awesome work! That is what I woul like to accomplish! Talent is amazing! Thank you for the beauty!
Thanks,Angie B.
these pictures is so bautiful. GOD bless you.
Great paintings..
Thank-you Jorge.
Thank-you Umesh S.
These are great. If you enjoyed these paintings – do have a look at my list of photorealist and hyperrealist artists on my blog: http://www.designmobius.blogspot.com ;-)