Artist:
Ira Upin
Normally I work as a painter, creating hyperrealistic narrative works in oil. I use photoshop as a tool to adjust and alter source imagery for these paintings but never until recently as a finished product. The paintings have always been painstakingly detailed, obsessively rendered, and extremely labor intensive. I think the Covid shutdown, and maybe a sense of fatalism and the desire to create things more quickly and spontaneously inspired me to...
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Normally I work as a painter, creating hyperrealistic narrative works in oil. I use photoshop as a tool to adjust and alter source imagery for these paintings but never until recently as a finished product. The paintings have always been painstakingly detailed, obsessively rendered, and extremely labor intensive. I think the Covid shutdown, and maybe a sense of fatalism and the desire to create things more quickly and spontaneously inspired me to develop these stand alone digital images.
