The last two weeks we have been before a more classic beauty in oil, acrylic or pastel painting, not to forget neither of watercolor. A type of work we've been getting used to from the great classics of painting And that it does not hurt to remember from time to time, as it happens with more current oil and that seeks other ideals or objectives.
It happens with Kramer's "Reflection and Introspection", a realistic oil painting where it is difficult to find that detail where our mind confirms that we are facing a painting instead of a photograph. If you search you can find it, but the truth is that it is quite complicated, since Patrick Kramer masters all the realistic aspects in this very particular work very well.
If we can call this work as realistic and not hyperrealistic, it is because of the reflection that should be seen while we paint the work, something that is eliminated and tends to something more surreal, even if it goes straight to realism. We can see this in the rest of Kramer's work, although we also find hyperrealism.
This painting itself has an exceptional touch in the clarity of the reflection and in what is the composition of the wooden mannequin on the metal ball taking another in one of his hands. An artist who looks for other corners and other spaces with those wooden mannequins that he illustrates so well in part of his work and that substitutes natural models.
You have their website from this link, and in it you can discover more great works by Kramer. Really all their work together has a great quality to even bring us some of their studies of masters of painting. Something essential to be able to know the techniques and be able to add them to one's own style.
I leave you with one of his videos where he shows his creative process and detail: