At first glance this image may look like an intimate snapshot caught
by a photographer. But these touching shower scenes were not captured
by a photographer, but painted by hand by a New York-based artist
Alyssa Monks paints these images, paying meticulous attention to
detail. The 31-year-old said: "I have always wanted to paint for as
long as I can remember. "I took classes at school and then went to
college and University before ending up at the New York Academy of
Art" The girl in most of the pictures is myself," she said. "I have
used my own image many times because I do not have to worry about
issues of self-consciousness that might arise with models..." "The
paintings are very intricate and they take a lot of work to get right.
It is all about the desire to try and create an image of a person that
is realer than real, beyond what even a photograph can portray"
Alyssa takes about 1,000 pictures for a small series of paintings,
using the images to play with the colour and get the paintings as real
as possible
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