10 Awesome Images That Are Actually Paintings

At first I thought most of these images were photos.

They are all inspiring paintings from some amazing artists and I recommend you check out the rest of their  work by clicking on the links.

1. Shower Scene

oil-on-linen-shower-scene

Artist: http://alyssamonks.com/

Source

2. Milk Girl

diego-gravinese-painting

Artist: http://www.diegogravinese.com/

Source

3. Station Scene

Damen-super-real-photoshop

Damen3-detail

Artist: http://www.bertmonroy.com/

This Photoshop image by Bert Monroy uses a total image count of over 15,000.

Source

4. Lunch In Tiburon

lunch

lunch_det

Artist: http://www.bertmonroy.com/

Source

5. Self Portrait

selfportraitbydavidjonkassan

Artist: http://davidkassan.com/

Source

6. People Swimming

Swimming-people

Artist: http://alyssamonks.com/

Source

7. Graffiti and Wood Peeling

wood-and-graffiti

Artist: http://davidkassan.com/

Source

 

8. Under Water Scene

under-water-realistic-painting

Artist: http://alyssamonks.com/

Source

9. Female Portrait

girl-painted-looks-real

realisticpainting01

Artist: http://www.drublair.com/

Source

10. Splash

eric-zener-splash

Artist: http://www.ericzener.com

Source

188 Responses to “10 Awesome Images That Are Actually Paintings”

Read below or add a comment...

  1. Lucas Tadeu says:

    Can’t believe they are not photographs.They look so real #incredible

  2. Lisa says:

    Alyssa Monks uses oil on linen, if you click through you can see the brush strokes detail. Splash is oil on canvas.

    Artists don’t automatically have photo-realistic abilities. It takes time and practice, you have to prove that you can do it. So to those saying “what is the point when you could take a photograph” and that they could do something more interesting with their time, their art isn’t just one painting, it is a journey always trying new things, trying to get better, and always learning.

  3. Wiesenwohner says:

    Queensboro Bridge by Andreas Orosz: http://www.andreas-orosz.de/contents/index_ger.html

  4. Dana says:

    Wow, these paintings are amazing! Now that’s talent!

  5. ninja says:

    the last one with the earrings is a photograph, the “artists” made this whole spiel about it being a painting as a joke…. casts some doubt on the rest of the “paintings” here.

  6. viny says:

    me sorprece is something that I am learning also to do how is everything?

  7. Paislie says:

    Those are amazing!! I want one! ha

  8. Globlin says:

    Lmafo, number nine is a joke chumps. Peace

  9. Masud Rana says:

    The number 9. must be a photograph.

  10. Crazy GOOOD says:

    all I have 2 say is……………………. WOOOOOOOOOOOW!

  11. zach says:

    i am pretty sure most of those are fakes, seriously, and the one even says “this photoshop contains over 15000 images” well that would be a lot of work, certainly, but that doesn’t make it a painting, it still makes it just a picture. and number 9 is obviously a photograph, from the individual strands of hair to the texture of her skin and teeth, no painter could possibly achieve that level of detail with a brush. i call shenanigans on pretty much all of these.

  12. Rafter242 says:

    Number 9 is not a fake.
    You can see the making of it online.
    Several of these (including #9 and #3) are not traditional paintings, but created in photoshop.
    Still, an amazing achievement.

  13. Anonymous says:

    should i have my image?

  14. Harry says:

    Sometimes these photo-like paintings offer us something interesting, but when you look at the late rembrandt self-portraits, you see a man who uses the paint expressively as well as a means of intense visual description

  15. Godspeed says:

    Имели мы вас всех имеем и будем иметь.
    Совершенно секретно, гриф секретности 10. Теперь мы бессмертны, мы света и тени смеси, и дом наш будет поднебесье храм указующем перстом.
    Заряд бластера на максимум в другой руке кусок пластика, я ползла ползла ползла слыша поступь вибрации по коммуникациям крейсера, по трубав винтеляции. Выстрел один, другой, третий достали вы меня братцы, за пазухой капсула вырезать лазером лаз в низ, разум в прострации а в теле проснулась машина убицйства, я помню точно точно вашу сверх секретную формулу …

  16. Godspeed says:

    Мы всеравно сильней

  17. jess says:

    number 9 is an airbrushed painting. (zach) the artist who did it even founded an airbrush school, and i’m studying under him in another week! i’m stoked

  18. Ren says:

    These are amazing I hope I have the ability to aspire such art in my lifetime.

  19. Joyce says:

    This is almost impossible, but I know now day any thing is possible. I do a little and have a sister that does oils.But this gosh it is so clean . Thank you …..J.

  20. Ria says:

    Godspeed – ti o chem? k psihiatry davno ne hodil, chtoli??

  21. ORPHANANNIE says:

    These are truly amazing. The milk in Milk Girl looks a little too viscous though, like paint almost, it should be thin like water.

  22. Anonymous says:

    Number 9 looks fake. Nobody can get that detailed. But in light of all that why not just take a photo? If these ARE real, then I can appreciate them for extreme technical proficiency only. I find hyper-photorealistic work incredibly boring.

  23. me says:

    many, if not most of these are just photographs with filters applied in photoshop to make them look like paintings.

  24. admin says:

    Retard.. most are paintings. Please think for second before posting next time.

  25. Ang says:

    Truly gifted artists.

  26. asha ray says:

    alyssa monks, diego gravinese and eric zener are now my new favorites! thanx 4 sharing this awesomeness! ;-)

  27. bebo says:

    gooooooooooood

  28. Denis says:

    I think that for any art movement we have good and bad artists.

    We can say that also a photo is warm or cold.

    Photorealist must be great painters, they can also interpret the original image, like Chuck Close.

    Some years ago, I was lucky to see some work about an italian photorealist, starting from the begin.

    She started from a color photo, for realizing a b/w paint. It was amazing, she trasformed the color image in her mind, giving to the paint deep of field and blur.

    here a link to her work – http://www.chiaraalbertoni.com

  29. Pete says:

    what amazing work, an inspiration. The female portrait is out of this world with painstaking detail!!!

    Pete

  30. nadz says:

    impossible!
    don believe it!

  31. shannon says:

    them ugly picture

  32. kitt says:

    #9 is NOT a fake. I thought so too until I remembered that picture being covered by AIRbrush magazine a couple yaers ago. It is real.

  33. BRB says:

    cool! I wish I could paint like that..
    though hyper realism isn’t my style ^^

  34. Duey says:

    Wow, these are really incredible. I love all of them but my favorite is probably the first one, Shower Scene :)

  35. admin says:

    Please don’t link back to your site with keyword rich anchor text.

    If you want really want links for your site, please contact us and we can arrange to write you some content that will drive great editorial links.

  36. kfoxy says:

    nice bt can`t belive ……………..

  37. lindsyhil says:

    Greate painting……….

  38. Anonymous says:

    they need to make paintings of celebrities doing the slam dance(having sex).

  39. gdfgf says:

    VERY GOOD PAINTIGNS OMG

  40. cooolio says:

    wowwwww those dont lok like paintings

  41. cooolio says:

    woww are those real

  42. SB420 says:

    Those are definitely real, but if your trying to make photo-realistic pictures, why not just take a photo? This skill is unnecessary. These look like they’re paintings of photos anyway.

  43. Miss says:

    For those who are saying those are fake, no they’re NOT…but personally I don’t like photo realism they’re too technical. Most, if not all, of these painters use projectors meaning they’re merely tracing from a photo. It’s cheating for the purist of painters. Also, as the comment above me said, why PAINT a photo realistic photo that is based on a photo? That’s just carbon copying the photo, no imagination and not very artistic in my opinion. Might as well just frame the photo used.

  44. Kraft says:

    Rafter242…I wanna watch it.

  45. Back in the 70′ I went to a “Photo Realist” exhibition at L.A.C.M.A. yet the works stayed in the realm of fine art,
    with visible brush strokes and splattered paint, thus making the works more aestheitically pleasing on the eye.
    These artist, some who used projectors, due mostly to the sheer size of the canvases, some spanned whole
    walls, but these were all established fine art artists, and used aids to speed up the production of the works. I
    have no problem with that, only for the novice and aspiring young artists who must realize that even a 2D photo
    is complete in its visual integrity, nothing has to be created from the beginning, everything is already complete!
    Photo Realism like for example Impressionism is strictly a matter of taste. If you get close to an Impressionists
    work, it’s pastel blots of pigment, and a Photo Realist work always has a hint of cartoon in it, if you know what I
    mean? The 1st time I saw Leonardo’s thumbnail sketches in the 60′s I was awed! Dali also has very exquisit work
    in this medium. My personal favorite work is by the Dutch, strange as it seems it combines the best of all visual
    presentation; Light/ Dark, Drama and a Fine Art Realism,…it’s most sublime in its visual wetness of surface, yes!!

Trackbacks

  1. [...] 10 Awesome Images That Are Actually Paintings. Categories: Top 10 Lists Tags: paintings Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) Leave a comment [...]

  2. [...] 10 Awesome Images That Are Actually Paintings [...]

  3. [...] gesehen, die erste handelt von außergewöhnlichen Cupcakevariationen und die zweite von fotorealistischen Gemälden bei denen es sich wirklich lohnt sich noch mehr Bildern von den Künstlern anzusehen. Hier ein paar [...]

  4. [...] are some awesome paintings.   They look just like [...]

  5. [...] See: 10 Amazing Images That Are Actually Paintings [...]

  6. [...] Increíble, ¿verdad?. Podéis ver el proceso de creación en Blair Art Studios, la imagen a mayor resolución es sencillamente espectacular. Para otras obras no menos asombrosas sírvanse del siguiente enlace. [...]

  7. [...] The Toy Zone Compártelo:   Guardado en:  Imágenes, Varios Ningún comentario [...]

  8. [...] entry ที่น่าสนใจจากเว็บ thetoyzone รวบรวมผลงานภาพวาดอันสุดยอดตั้ง 10 [...]

  9. [...] 看到这些图,可能绝大多数人都会以为是照片吧,这些几乎能以假乱真的图可全都是顶级艺术家画出来的。感谢大家纠错。来源 [...]

  10. [...] 3D katumaalauksia | SEKALAINEN Tornado ja sateenkaari samassa kuvassa | LUONTO Näyttää valokuvalta, mutta onkin maalaus | SEKALAINEN Kalifornian metsäpalot | LUONTO Telegraphin viikon kuvat | [...]

  11. [...] And finally, 10 awesome images that are actually paintings. [...]

  12. [...] is a must see… I can’t believe people are this talented while I have none. [GO!] tweetmeme_url = [...]

  13. [...] 10 Awesome Images That Are Actually Paintings – you know what we would paint?   Money.   (TheToyZone) [...]

  14. [...] Images that are actually Paintings.. Feed: 10 Awesome Images That Are Actually Paintings See more at the link above. __________________ My Countdown Counting down to: till [...]

  15. Quickie says:

    [...] 10 Awesome Images That Are Actually Paintings [...]

  16. [...] I don’t even get how someone can do this…these images are paintings, not photos! So rad. See more at thetoyzone.com. [...]

  17. [...] 10 Images that look like pictures but are actually paintings – Link. [...]

  18. [...] The image above is not a photograph … It is a painting done by artist Alyssa Monks  … where the painting is so real …. I found this image with another collection of images on this cool blog post. [...]

  19. [...] Link: 10 Awesome Images That Are Actually Paintings [...]

  20. [...] Here a link to some really amazing paintings that looks like it has been taken with a camera. Check it out! [...]

  21. [...] 45 عکس جالب Ùˆ دست کاری شده – دایره المعارف کشورهای جهان – ده عکسی Ú©Ù‡ شاید باور نکنید نقاشی باشد! – معروف ترين عكسهاي خبري تاريخ – کامران نجف زاده از [...]

  22. [...] 10 Awesome Images That Are Actually Paintings __________________ [...]

  23. [...] There’s artists and then there’s these dudes…totally amazing paintings… [...]

  24. [...] Paintings – They look like photographs, but these are actually paintings by some very talented artists. The most amazing one is the pepper shaker with the reflection of the guy “taking the picture” in it. Amazing. [...]

  25. [...] images that are actually paintings [...]

  26. [...] http://www.thetoyzone.com/2009/blog/10-awesome-images-that-are-actually-paintings/ – Cool looking images that you’d swear are photographs but are actually paintings. [...]



Leave A Comment...