Four Yip

Four Yip paintings mix reality portraits of Second Life avatars. Her work includes three different types of paintings. First she makes a snapshot of the avatars she says than she paints them in a digital sense based on how she see's them and lastly she Photo shops them. "They are imaginative portraits," is what Four Yip says about her avatars. My favorite piece of her work is this one above, Four Yip's portrait of Kean Kelly, transforming her from an unblemished avatar into a person with a history and secrets to keep.

I personally really loved the work Four Yip did with the portrait of Kean Kelly. Kean Kelly's avatar is cool and futurist looking but the second portrait of Kean Kelly looks more meaningful and more like a digital painting than a avatar. The second piece of work has a lot of detail and looks like a real painting in a art galley i like the texture that Four Yip was able to capture with that portrait and i think her work in this piece is very new media and a cool new way to create art work through avatars.