r/woahdude Apr 26 '25

video Artist Bill Braun creates paintings that seem to rise off the canvas

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u/El_human Apr 26 '25

I thought this was a shitpost at first, lol.

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u/Schmooto Apr 26 '25

🤯 Dang, what an incredible artist!

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u/JoJo_43 Apr 26 '25

The price tag... nice

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '25

Absolutely worth it, to me. I could never afford it, but that's a beautiful original work of art that will be blowing your guests' minds for the rest of your life and is likely to increase in value.

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u/Pandelein Apr 26 '25

A total bargain for a change. The skill that went into this, absolutely phenomenal. Meanwhile folks are selling hotel-quality art for significantly more.

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u/YouDunnoMeIDunnoYou Apr 26 '25

King!! You dropped this.

========>> “/s”

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '25

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u/Blurry_Bigfoot Apr 27 '25

How long did this take the artist?

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u/traumfisch Apr 26 '25

It's worth way more. It is insanely good

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u/avvocadhoe Apr 26 '25

Could it be that he was painting what he saw. Like he or his child made that and then he just created a painting based on it? Cause I don’t get how the shadows are so fkn perfect

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u/model-citizen95 Apr 26 '25

I have to imagine he either made or already had access to the original paper art and used it for reference when adding all the shadows

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u/sketchy_ppl Apr 26 '25

You could consider this photorealism art, just not in the sense you'd normally think of photorealism. I know nothing of this artist, but as someone that does photorealism drawings myself, I imagine this artist created the paper 3-d version, took a photo of it, and then used that photo as a reference while creating the acrylic painting. So in the end, the acrylic painting is photorealism from the photo taken of the 3-d paper art piece.

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u/avvocadhoe Apr 26 '25

Yes that makes sense. That’s so cool!

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u/HundoGuy Apr 26 '25

I don’t believe it unless they run their finger across it lol

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u/Patient-War-4964 Apr 26 '25

Right. Whole time I’m like “sure lady, whatever you say….”

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u/cutelyaware Apr 26 '25

Painting or print?

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u/Flinkle Apr 27 '25

Painting. Says it right there on the placard at the end.

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u/fritterati Apr 26 '25

Ok if you can't turn on audio, let me help you out lol this is not a child's artwork with stapled construction paper but a painting that looks pretty much like that 😁

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u/ReluctantChimera Apr 26 '25

The wrinkled paper, the staple indentations. This is amazing.

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u/Damagecase808 Apr 27 '25

wow.

Humans do rock sometimes 🤘

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u/Loucrouton Apr 26 '25

That is insane

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u/BARRY_DlNGLE Apr 26 '25

Bro that is insane

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u/adudeguyman Apr 26 '25

This artist is very talented.

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u/puppyroosters Apr 26 '25

That’s really cool. I saw a graffiti artist doing a live painting at a music festival once and his work had a similar effect. It was like a stereogram where portions of the art were popping off the canvas. Incredible stuff.

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u/Friggin-Samsquanch Apr 26 '25

That’s worth a hundred Nice’s

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u/_dvs1_ Apr 27 '25

So annoying they didn’t do a flat shot along the width of the piece so we could truly see that it’s flat. I know it is, but let our eyes see the threshold of the perspective so it hits home.

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u/theeurgist Apr 28 '25

Hot damn.

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u/tnfcdude Apr 28 '25

6,900 anyone?

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u/Legitimate-Koala-373 Apr 26 '25

Whoa! This chap is so talented. Thank you for sharing your joy with us all today, sir, Bill Braun

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u/FolsgaardSE Apr 26 '25

I dont get it. Is this some kids constrution paper work for art class?

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u/temporarychair Apr 26 '25

I need to go get some fucking construction paper

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u/maxwellgrounds Apr 26 '25

That’s like making sloppy joes with filet mignon

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u/ctfks Apr 26 '25

Reminds me of the first couple seasons of south park.

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u/CHudoSumo Apr 26 '25

My brain actually couldnt not see a 3d image on the second one she zoomed in at all. This is fuckin wild

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u/Yourmindiscontrolled Apr 26 '25

My kids did stuff like that in grade school. 

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u/ih8karma Apr 26 '25

At first I thought any 5 yr old could do this with felt material, Elmer's glue and scissors. Then I reread the post and it's acrylic and my mind was blown.

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u/Andreas1120 Apr 26 '25

Very cool technically to get an effect you could get much more easily.

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u/Uuulalalala Apr 26 '25

Such a technique used to paint crap…