Literally Live Pictures
Self Portraits
About Alexa Meade (artist)
Alexa Meade is an installation artist based in the Washington, DC area. Her background in the world of political communications has fueled her intellectual interest in the tensions between perception and reality.
Alexa Meade’s innovative use of paint on the three dimensional surfaces of found objects, live models, and architectural spaces has been incorporated into a series of installations that create a perceptual shift in how we experience and interpret spatial relationships.
More about acrylic painting
It’s a water-based medium and the usual texture and consistency is similar to oil paints. However, unlike oils, you can get acrylics in a wide variety of densities (or ‘viscosity’ as it’s sometimes called).These range from a very thin, ink-like consistency able to be used in airbrushes through various degrees of ‘flow’ to the consistency of soft cream cheese.
This allows really heavy 3D (impasto, or paste) effects. And you have the choice of either mixing the paints with the additives to create a solid color throughout the impasto, or letting the impasto dry, then painting over it.
Various substances are available to be added to the paint to create all sorts of textures. Or you can use your own, such as plaster or sand, for a further variety of textured effects.
All the brands and thicknesses can be thinned back down using water. Some artists actually use thinned down acrylic in a pure ‘watercolor’ style.
Acrylics, although similar in style and finish to oils, gives subtely different but important qualities to your work. Probably, its biggest benefit is its speed of drying.
Freaky!
absolutely amazing!!! I’ve never seen anything like it!
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Great amazing!!
[...] March 15, 2010 My wonderful friend Dasha sent me this link and I immediately was intrigued. Alexa Meade is based in Washington D.C. and is known for her [...]
it could be a fake too, must see a video
Saw the seated guy with the head and shoulders painted (in front of the red square, with the live projection in the frame next to him) as an installation piece at G40 in Crystal City two weekends ago. Harder to see well in a crowded room than it is here on the website, but impressive in both instances. Nicely done; very clever.
[...] que utiliza el cuerpo humano como lienzo para dar rienda a su creatividad y crear una serie de pinturas vivas. Para ello utiliza la técnica de pintura acrílica con la que cubre el cuerpo de sus modelos [...]
wow, gran trabajo, esto es creatividad!
Brilliantly thought provoking and yet mysterious. Finally, living art.
so lame. just dumb people paint on pictures. that has nothing to do with art. there isn’t any invention nor creativity it’s just paint on a picture…
OMG!!
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This is AMAZING .!!!
REAL PEOPLE AS PAINTINGS
A-FREAKEN-MAZING!!!!!!!!
Wow, this is amazing! I totally thought the first picture was a painting.
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Мне понравились эти усталые женщины. Обязательно попробую слепить что-нибудь подобное у себя на даче. Very nice!
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[...] Literally Live Pictures – Virtualfunzone We have always seen acrylic paint on canvas, but now we have the work of artist Alexa Meade, who has creatively used the human body as her canvas. The results are really impressive. (tags: art inspiration culture live illusion painting) [...]
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Genius! Absolutely superb! The cleverest thing I have seen done in a long time! Well done.
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Its so funny! Great idea and real street art:) They should create group people in panorams…
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Very cool art work and very deceptive if you dont know what your looking at. Good share, thanks for the post.
James from Grants for School Students
this is interesting because the things that are commonly weak points or area of struggle for an artist are the areas of these photographs that give it away (that is, once you are exposed to the fact that they are such)
I.E. the hands, the hair…
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[...] These pictures of people are covered with acrylic paint. Artists did very good job, so people look like they are part of the painting. Her previous work you can see at this link “Literally Live Pictures“. [...]
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Thanks for an idea, you sparked at thought from a angle I hadn’t given thoguht to yet. Now lets see if I can do something with it.
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