When Featuring Artist,

one piece of kit we have seldom mentioned, 

is the use of a aitbrush, photographs Dru Blair,

South Carolina artist Dru Blair, has taken the art of realism to new heights,

it is so difficult to believe that they are not photographs,

Dru Blair first picked up the airbrush while working on his Master’s degree at the University of South Carolina, and spent several summers after that painting T-shirts in Myrtle Beach,

later, he worked as a freelance illustrator for several ad agencies and painted many novel covers, before developing an interest in techniques like photorealism, trompe l’oeil illusionism, faux finishing, and colour theory, 

today, he creates some of the most realistic airbrush portraits and teaches the secrets of the trade to other interested artists at his art school, aptly named School of Realism,

what stunning pieces of art work.