Artist Creates Realistic LIFE-SIZED Portraits

Incredible  paintings of reality by Brooklyn-based artist, David Kassan, 38.  He portrays his subjects with incredible realism, using wooden panels  as a canvas such that at first glance, you might be fooled into thinking that these images are intimate photographs - but you'd be mistaken.

 

Kassan's art pieces capture every wrinkle, shadow and mole in outstanding detail, as well as the haunting emotion of each of the imploring gazes.

 

He explains to Mailonline that art has always been his way of of 'understanding the world around me in depth.'
 

He adds: 'I love the textures and abstractions I see on the streets of my neighborhood in Brooklyn, as well as the people of my city.
 

'I spend a long time with a painting because I'm really involved in portraying the subject in the most honest and authentic way that I can. 
 

'All of my painting subjects are life-sized, so that viewer of the painting can interact with the painting as we interact with other people in our lives.' 

 

Photo credit: Daily Mailonline