{"id":3553,"date":"2016-03-16T21:43:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T21:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=3553"},"modified":"2016-03-16T21:43:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T21:43:44","slug":"ghostly-portraits-painted-onto-layers-of-netting-by-uttaporn-nimmalaikaew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/16\/ghostly-portraits-painted-onto-layers-of-netting-by-uttaporn-nimmalaikaew\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghostly Portraits Painted Onto Layers of Netting by Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2016\/03\/ghostly-portraits-painted-onto-layers-of-netting-by-uttaporn-nimmalaikaew\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Uttaporn_Detail_01.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2016\/03\/ghostly-portraits-painted-onto-layers-of-netting-by-uttaporn-nimmalaikaew\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Uttaporn_Detail_02.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thai artist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/uttaporn.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew<\/a>\u00a0paints portraits on layers of fine netting or tulle, deftly producing an analog 3D effect\u00a0with\u00a0subjects who appear to be sitting in chairs or lying down on beds. When circling the paintings they morph and shift, changing form depending on the viewer\u2019s distance and location to the piece. These subjects are often his family, a way for the artist to pause his loved ones\u2019 aging process and preserve them in time.<\/p>\n<p>Nimmalaikaew first discovered the technique while a student at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.su.ac.th\/index.php\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Silpakorn University<\/a> in Bangkok after a stray speck of paint landed on a mosquito net in his studio. Witnessing the dimensionality the surface afforded the paint, he began to explore new ways in which to paint on the utilitarian material.<\/p>\n<p>For each piece Nimmalaikaew begins with a digital drawing which he then prints life-size to determine the subject\u2019s form and texture. He then begins to paint the layers with oil paint in a style that he calls \u201ctulle-painting style.\u201d In an 2014 interview <a href=\"http:\/\/sea.blouinartinfo.com\/news\/story\/1011545\/uttaporn-nimmalaikaew-brings-haunting-3d-artworks-to-yavuz#.UxIsak6w3EE.facebook\" target=\"_blank\">he explained<\/a>, \u201cOver time, I have learnt that the tulle demands a different way of creating realistic light and shadow for the material. The top layer gives details for the optical illusion. Then I connect each layer with clear copolymer line to make it all fit together and create depth in the image.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2016\/03\/ghostly-portraits-painted-onto-layers-of-netting-by-uttaporn-nimmalaikaew\/\">Ghostly Portraits Painted Onto Layers of Netting by Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thai artist\u00a0Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew\u00a0paints portraits on layers of fine netting or tulle, deftly producing an analog 3D effect\u00a0with\u00a0subjects who appear to be sitting in chairs or lying down on beds. When circling the paintings they morph and shift, changing form depending on the viewer\u2019s distance and location to the piece. These subjects are often his family, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-Vj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3556,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions\/3556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}