Realistic Paintings Reflected in Sunglasses by Simon Henness

  The artist Simon Hennessey lives and works in Birmingham (England). Basically, giperrealistichnye draws portraits of people. Often depicts people with glasses, in the reflections of which you can see the famous sights. The paintings by Simon Hennessey are so lifelike they have been mistaken for photography. They include the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben and Tower Bridge. Over the last five years he has painted the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, Tower Bridge, the Guggeneheim museum in New York, the New York City skyline, the seaside at Skegness and Hyde Park.

To create the lifelike compositions, he takes pictures of the locations and a model wearing sunglasses, before he gets to work on a canvas with an airbrush and acrylic paint. His pieces range in size from 11 by 8 inches to 5ft by 6.5 ft and can take from two weeks to seven months to complete. They range in price from £3,000 to £22,000.