Feb
19
>Hosni Mubarak ~ Job Hunting
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I was working on another caricature today when I got a Facebook message from one of my sons suggesting that I do Hosni Mubarak. I really wasn’t into what I was doing so I decided to go ahead and give him a go. I stayed up a little late to finish this one. Back to George Clooney tomorrow. Bedtime!
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Feb
17
>Bruce Willis ~ A Movie Spoof
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I took yesterday’s work in progress post of Bruce Willis and had a little fun with it tonight. I enjoy doing movie spoofs and we needed another Die Hard anyhow right? I’ve done a lot of movie spoofs for Photoshop contests at FreakingNews.com and they are loads of fun. I believe if I counted right, I used 8 images to make this one, and I added a few tricks of my own. Click it to view full. It’s pretty large and has fairly good detail. Hope you like it.
Interview with Bruce Willis:
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Feb
16
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I got busy with other things today and didn’t have time to finish a caricature so I decided to post a work in progress for a change. I’m actually combining two images here. Obviously the one above, but also one where he has a smirk on his face so I was experimenting with twisting and warping the face a bit. Not sure what I’m going to do with this or if I’ll even finish it but this is what it looks like mid way through.
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Feb
15
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Tonight I worked a little late finishing this manipulated caricature of Obama. I started kind of late and this one took a good bit of work. Obama is always fun to caricature so if I can’t decide who to caricature, I can always fall back on him. I couldn’t come up with a clever name for this so maybe you guys can help. Anything is better than what I have. I’ve posted the original source image below. Well, it’s way past my bedtime. I hope you like it.
Original source image:
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Feb
14
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Tonight I’m featuring an incredible artist who I’m sure most of you are familiar with, Hyperrealist Painter Denis Peterson. I am including a bio on Denis as well as a sampling of his unreal art. You can also find a link to his web site at the end of the post. Yes these are actually acrylic paintings. Check it out!
Bio
Of Armenian descent, Denis Peterson was one of the first Photorealists to emerge in New York. He is widely acknowledged as the pioneer and primary architect of Hyperrealism, which was founded on the aesthetic principles of Photorealism. Author Graham Thompson wrote, “One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of photorealist painting in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is also called super-realism or hyper-realism and painters like Richard Estes, Denis Peterson, Audrey Flack and Chuck Close often worked from photographic stills to create paintings that appeared to be photographs.”
Peterson has often utilized the hyperrealism painting style as a phenomenological vehicle for social change. Figurative images in compressed space and incorporeal landscapes of social decadence are visual commentaries on the aftermath of genocides, diasporas, and cultural divides. “Because of a combination of the theme of the work and his technical abilities, Peterson’s paintings have a timeless symbolic meaning rather than the mere appearance of a photograph. While hyper-real in definition, they are also breaking from the structures of photography as being an acceptable simulation of reality and instead, creating a sense of loss from “personalization and interaction.”
“Originally, his floor-to-ceiling sized paintings centered around a single figure, with his monochromatic subjects characteristically cropped to appear as enlarged black and white photographs. Later, he developed a diverse number of original painting series, such as multiple phone booths in New York City. Although not a professional photographer, he has relied on his own camera shots to maintain a consistency of composition and subject matter as reliable reference studies. Several years ago, Denis utilized photorealism as a visual medium through which to portray the unthinkable: genocides. As with his controversial painting series on homelessness, his work centered on the indefatigable human spirit rather than on political and economic crucibles. More recently, he has been painting urbanscapes of gargantuan commercial billboards overlooking crowds of people scurrying about below, often unaware of what social messages loom above.”
This is a picture of Denis Peterson, not a painting:
Incredible right? Be sure and check out his web site at the link below:
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Feb
12
>Owen Wilson
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Tonight I did a manipulated caricature of Owen “The Nose” Wilson. I couldn’t resist. He has the strangest nose I’ve ever seen. I wish I had the boldness of a Sebastian Kruger or Russ Cook and just go crazy with that nose but I tend to tone things down a bit. I experimented with some new masking techniques tonight and learned a couple of things…but I can’t tell you. 
I’ve posted the original source image below.
I’ve posted the original source image below.
Original source image below:
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