julio sanchez photorealism

Gerrit Henry said that "in Photorealism, reality is made to look so overpoweringly real as to make it pure illusion."  A painting is an illusion, no matter what it appears to be.  It will always be an illusion, a world within a frame.   

Painting people has always been a passion of mine, recognizing their every detail, getting closer to see the full story.    At first the viewer might see a photographic like image; a painting.  But on closer inspection an immense story appears before their eyes, and in time they come face-to-face with the person, and not just the illusion.