Large scale hyper-realistic botanical portraits by Australian artist CJ Hendry – all done with coloured pencils.
Coloured pencils.
Last night.
Colum Cronin tweets:
Giant, determined flower stretching towards the night sky on Vernon Street, Dublin 8
An all too short ‘visual poem’ to the glory of the bursting bloom by Alexa Sirbu and Lukas Vojir.
Go fullscreen for the full effect.
Images of flowers taken by photographer Craig Burrows using a relatively unknown process known as UVIVF (ultra violet induced visible fluorescence).
Burrows illuminates the flowers with a high intensity LED filtered to transmit only UV and infrared which the plants absorb, releasing visible light in the form of vivid colours not perceptible under normal viewing conditions.
More of his work here.