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If you’re lucky enough to buy one of Sharon Moody‘s comic book paintings, make sure you keep it out of reach of your superhero-obsessed friends — considering that her trompe l’oeil works actually are realistic enough to fool the eye, they might well try to reach into the piece and grab the open Spider-Man or [...]
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I have seen a few photorealistic works of great artists but painter Sharon Moody takes the craft to a new  level by producing paintings of comic books that looks as if they were photographed. The detail that she put into her work is... Read Post

In a post last week I argued that argued that the best work in the Hirshhorn's just-closed "The Cinema Effect: Realism" show worked because it was the video equivalent of trompe l'oeil. Part of why trompe l'oeil painting is beloved.... Read Post

There's painting comics and then there's painting comics. Take artist Sharon Moody's trompe l'oeil take on classic Marvel and DC superhero titles like Spider-Man, Fantastic Four and Superman, for example. Rather than going the Alex ... Read Post