Hyperrealistic Painting

Kaila Lorraine

2021

An oil portrait built entirely around the subject's striking blue eyes, Ocean Eyes is one of HueWing's most requested hyperrealistic paintings. Dozens of translucent glazes were layered by hand to recreate the way light refracts through the iris, building up depth, color, and moisture until the eyes appear to hold real light rather than paint. The piece takes its name from the oceanic blue-green depth achieved in the iris - a technique that relies on painting in thin, semi-transparent layers rather than mixing a single flat color, so the finished surface shifts in tone the way a real eye does under changing light. Like every HueWing hyperrealistic oil portrait commission, this piece was painted entirely by hand from reference photography, with no prints or digital elements involved - a representative example of the detail every client can expect from a custom portrait commission.