It's extremely hard to tell
which is the point really - also, he uses an airbrush to blend colours and achieve an even, flat surface. Seeing as airbrush techniques (or these days, airbrush effects) are used to touch up photographs, we're used to reading that as a norma way for a photograph to look.
I'm an artist. I have no idea if he painted this himself (there are enormous leaps in the transitional pictures of him painting it, but then it may all look messy until he gets to certain points, beyond which it looks real) but in any case...ugh. Groo...
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Hampster Squared has stuff at www.tilla.co.uk, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 10:15,
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