25 Amazing Paintings That Look Incredibly like Photographs

If I told you these were photographs, you would probably believe me. They are so incredibly detailed and the colors are so lifelike you would swear you were looking at a large photograph.

The following artists are masters of their craft and each painting is surreal. Yes, a painting! These realistic art paintings are at the point of being unbelievable but they are all truly authentic one-of-a-kind works of art.

1) Paul Cadden – pencil and paper

 

2) Lee Price – Oil on linen

 

3) Ben Weiner – Paintings of paint

 

4) Omar Ortiz – Oil on linen

 

5) Gregory Thielker – Oil on canvas

6) Kim Ji-hoon – Pencil

7) Ron Mueck – Sculpture

8) Christina K – Drawing on tinted brown paper

 

9) Kamalky Laureano – Acrylic on canvas

 

10) Daisy – Charcoal

11) Ray Hare – Acrylic painting on canvas

 

12) Thomas Arvid – Limited edition Giclée on canvas

 

13) Gottfried Helnwein – Oil and acrylic on canvas

 

14) Kelvin Okafor – Graphite pencils

 

15) Amy Robins – Colored pencil on cartridge paper

 

16) Robert Longo – Charcoal on mounted paper

 

View more artworks from Robert Longo on Artsy.

17) Diego Fazio – Charcoal pencil

 

18) Samuel Silva – Ballpoint pen

In case you missed it…THIS was created with ballpoint pens, incredible.

19) Pedro Campos – Oil on canvas

20) Franco Clun – Pencils on watercolor paper

21) Dirk Dzimirsky – Graphite on paper

22) Alyssa Monks – Oil on linen

 

23) Bryan Drury – Oil on wood

24) Robin Eley – Oil on Belgian linen

25) Paul Cadden – Pencil on paper

H/t: BuzzFeed

My mind is still blown from viewing these realistic art paintings and I’m in awe by the talent of these artists and the photo-realistic paintings they produce. If you love art as much as I do, you may also enjoy these carved crayons.

Please share these amazing works of realistic art with your friends and family.