At least it was his own photograph that he painted. This is interesting because photography, before they discovered silver and hypo, was simply taking a camera obscura and using it as a tracing tool.
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > So on the Scrabble discuss list last week someone posted this link > > http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/01/hyper-realistic-paintings-by-steve-mills/ > > I found it hard to believe. so what is going on here? I think > this guy used a projector to project a photo he took (the first > one I might find slightly interesting as a photo in a piece about > glass , the others, not at all) onto canvas and then added acryllic. > In the way illustartors used to do to pump out stuff for books quickly. > > > I cynically wrote the poster that I thought they were fake totally > (photoshop) but apparently they are really large "paintings" . > > Anyone know more about Mills? > > "Look what I can do" (or look what can be done) art kinda always annoys me - > unless it is just for fun. > > This stuff seems just, well, shallow > > What say you guys? > > ann > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- Bong Manayon http://bong.manayon.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
