No, it is not a photo...

A few people ask if some of my paintings are photos, or they genuinely mistake them for photos. Some of my paintings are painted to a photo-realistic standard and it depends what I'm painting really; if I feel realism is better for the subject.

However, I am a painter, and for about eighteen months now I have not used any form of photo-manipulation; it's all free-hand work based around my own sketches.

So to show how I actually go about painting something realistic from scratch, without incorporating any photography, I occasionally video the process, so here's one I prepared earlier...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL6RP6nl7sE

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