A new year and back to uni.

Happy new year! 
Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and new year. I had a great time down south with my boyfriends family. We went on a day trip to Brighton and visited the Brighton Pavillion. Wow, that place is absolutely beautiful. If I owned my own flat I would definitely use what I saw there as inspiration to decorating some of my rooms!

Brighton Pavillion hallway

So I didn't manage to get my hummingbird painting finished in time for Christmas. I got quite a lot done but I got ill the last 2 weeks of uni and just had no motivation to do any painting after uni. I also didn't even get my Coke can painting started. I will definitely start it and work on it in the evenings as im now going into Costume so i'll need to keep up my painting skills. I have been doing a few sketches over the holidays, though probably not as many as i should have done, and i got a couple of 20th century art books as presents to improve my knowledge of the art world.

I have been doing a little bit of research into my specialist subject and have come across an artist called Dru Blair. I thought that I had typed in photography by mistake when the image came up of one of his paintings "Trica". Its absolutely perfect and there is no sign of a brush stroke in it.

Trica

 Dru started off wanting to be a doctor but when he discovered he had an atristic talent he changed his degree to art. When he graduated he got a job in commercial illustration. He then went on to win the national airbrush excellence award. The following year he produced his first aviation painting which became the first of 3 of his paintings to be the Air Force magazine cover and is still the number one selling aviation print in the world. He focuses most on aircrafts and has done a lot of paintings for start trek book covers.
The way he has captured the planes is amazing. He has obviously perfected the technique of using an airbrush and produces some stunning pieces of art!

http://www.drublair.com/index.html

I also came across a hyperrealism blog which I have bookmarked on my laptop and take a look at it every so often to see what other photorealism artists they display and have a little look at the websites of the ones I like the look of. http://hyperrealism-hiperrealismo.blogspot.com/