Monday 21 November 2011

The Extraordinary Illusory Art of Alexa Meade

Alexa Meade paints people.



She literally does paint people:



She applies paint directly onto her subjects, thereby tricking the eye into believing that we're looking at a painted portrait rather than the real sitter.

 



When I first saw these, I assumed that Alexa had been Photoshopped into a painting. But no, that's actually her in real life painting someone to look like a painting.

 








See more of her extraordinary work here on her website and her Flickr page here. My thanks to the ever-brilliant Andy Nyman for finding these.

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