Aya Uekawa

November 16th, 2009 by

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Aya Uekawa fuses the high realism of Dutch & Flemish Renaissance paintings with portraits of young women, often in states of dreamy transformation, straddling reality and fantasy.

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  1. jason says:
    November 16, 2009 at 7:00 pm

    amazing that these are acrylic! i wonder if an airbrush is used…

  2. Fei says:
    November 17, 2009 at 12:33 am

    The one of the girl smiling creepily is so awesome.

  3. Sasha says:
    November 17, 2009 at 12:14 pm

    Yeah they totally look like oil on panel, right?

  4. jason says:
    November 17, 2009 at 2:26 pm

    mmm yeah but mixed with the aesthetic achieved from people who are really into creating the human form from gradients in Illustrator.

  5. Tweets that mention Aya Uekawa | BEAUTIFUL/DECAY MAGAZINE -- Topsy.com says:
    November 17, 2009 at 2:33 pm

    [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Jan-Hinrich Fehlis and Amir H. Fallah, Largetail. Largetail said: Aya Uekawa http://bit.ly/3YzX8p via @beautifuldecay [...]

  6. anneliseco says:
    May 10, 2010 at 3:03 pm

    activity next imposed globe

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