Portrait Artists

I was looking at portrait painting at found Kyle Lambert's digital photorealistic painting on an ipad, even iphone....
I'm like, wow !!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__rPHTWxS4g

and then I was looking at his blog
http://kyle-lambert.blogspot.com/
and finding more cool stuff,

I found out about Chuck Close
and I'm like double wow !!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgsFYXsdcp0

Did he go back and forth to paint those tiny colorful shapes to make up a giant face ?
I found this other video on youtube, it kinda breaks down the painting into values, contour and adding grid, so it's like individual squares and then it's ready to be painted.
So..... it's more like, do the preparation, then paint tiny individual squares to make up a whole giant face.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFZLwNDyCU0

or see here
Art Lesson Plan : Chuck Close Grid Drawing projects for students
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/larry-valuegrid.htm