Amazing Embroideries That Look Like Hyper-Realistic Paintings

April 25th, 2016

Painting

cayce zavaglia, embroidery, Paintings, Portraits,

Cayce Zavaglia is a painter. Aside from the usual gouaches and acrylic paints, she creates these amazing portraits by sewing with cotton and silk thread or crewel embroidery wool. She developed her own technique where she uses these materials to create hyper-realistic portraits. From up close, her sewing method looks just like the classic oil painting technique.

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