Pseudophotographica
See the nice photo of a Chicago El Blue Line train on the right?
It's not a photo.
Bert Monroy made it with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
• The image size is 40 inches by 120 inches. • The flattened file weighs in at 1.7 Gigabytes. • It took eleven months (close to 2,000 hours) to create. • The painting is comprised of close to fifty individual Photoshop files. • Taking a cumulative total of all the files, the overall image contains over 15,000 layers.
posted by John Sadowski at Wednesday, September 20, 2006
4 Comments:
hmmm...perhaps it's just me and the lack of artist in my soul but, er, why not just...take a picture?
"I have often been asked why I don’t just take a photograph.Good question, when you consider my paintings look like photographs. Well, for one thing, I’m not a photographer. To me, it is not the destination that is important—it is the journey. The incredible challenge of recreating reality is my motivation." — Bert Monroy
:)
ah ha ha...time and money, money and time-if only life had indulged all of us with such wonderful gifts! give me 2,000 sustained hours and a few toys ta' boot and i promise to enjoy the journey too
good point.
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