I came across this article this morning of an incredible artist who produces incredible pencil drawings from a photograph.  You really have to marvel at his level of craft and determination to produce such works.

Paul Cadden: The hyperrealist artist recreating photographs with pencil
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2115297/Paul-Cadden-The-hyperrealist-artist-recreating-photographs-pencil.html

However, I have a serious problem with his work and having thought about this for sometime I suspect this may well have something to do with my photographic background.    I just cannot see the point of buying such work when you could buy a copy of the photograph and have the same quality image.   Again this is not to down play the skill of the artist but it does down play the skill of the photographer to capture the image in the first place.   Just what makes a pencil copy of a photograph more valuable, whatever value might mean, than a high quality print?   I just cannot understand the difference.

I wish Paul Cadden well it is just that his art doesn’t work for me.

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