three brushes

I conjured these shots up while remodeling the studio. We finished painting the walls and the floor today, it looks like a completely different place! Anyway, I sharpened these a lot in photoshop to give it a hard, intense look, and added a bit of contrast. I wanted the brushes to look gritty and worn. Then I used a hasselblad film border (I know it's cheating, but it just looks so much cooler) on each photograph and then fused them together to make a compilation image. The result is a paintbrush portrait, complete with traces of sets, backdrops, and props that it has helped to create or maintain.