Photoreality Abstracted and Repainted
Digital imaging has forever changed the boundries between photography and traditional two-dimensional art like painting and drawing.
As a painter adds brush strokes to a blank canvas, the image is transformed from very abstract, to less abstract, then into a realistic representation of the actual subject. Depending on the media, brush strokes, blending of colors, and surface irregularities on canvas or paper may be visible.
Digital photography reverses this process. As detail is creatively removed, photorealism is transformed into more abstract images that resemble paintings or drawings. Digital brush strokes can be added to create the impression of thick oil on canvas, chalk on rough paper, swacthes of water color yielding to gravity as the material dries, or almost any other combination of pigment and surface.
The images here range from photorealistic representations of flowers, creatures and scenic views into more stylistic, abstracted, or painterly interpretaion of the same subjects.