15 Shockingly Realistic Paintings

Although it is very hard to believe, these are not photographs, but hyper-realistic paintings. Their author is the American hyperrealist artist Patrick Kramer. Hyperrealism is certainly a very complex style of art. Not every artist is given the ability to convey reality so accurately.

Patrick Kramer is an American hyperrealist artist from Springville, Utah. After graduating from Brigham Young University in 2008 with a degree in art, Kramer began a successful career as an artist. Patrick spends an average of 50 to 300 hours on each of his paintings.

Typically, the entire process begins with photographs. The artist comes up with an idea, gathers the necessary props and props, experiments with them in Photoshop, and then uses the final digital composition as a base. To the age-old question: “Why bother with something that will look like a photograph?” Kramer answers:

Below you will see some of Kramer's favorite works. Surprisingly, all of these are really paintings...

"Anna"

With butter on the board.

Size: 20×20 cm.

"Three glasses"

Oil on canvas.

Size: 60×81 cm.

"Salt Lake City Library"

With butter on the board.

Size: 76×50 cm.

"Perseverance/Futility"

With butter on the board.

Size: 60×45cm.

"Gravity"

Oil on canvas.

Size: 60×91 cm.

"Rig"

Oil on canvas.

Size: 60×45 cm.

"Optimist"

Oil on canvas.

Size: 60×60 cm.

"Negation"

Oil on canvas.

Size: 40×60 cm.

"Dragonfly"

With butter on the board.

Size: 35×28 cm.

"Pirouette"

Oil on canvas.

Size: 76×60 cm.

"The Price of Measurements"

With butter on the board.

Size: 20×25 cm.

"Shed Light"

With butter on the board.

Size: 50×40 cm.

"Civic Pride"

Oil on canvas.

Size: 91×60 cm.

"Matt"

With butter on the board.

Size: 22×30 cm.

"Decreasing repetitions"

Pencil.

Size: 55×33 cm.