Here’s how to create a hyperrealistic universe
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- 13 Feb 2023
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To me, art is like breathing. It is not something you think about, it is something you just do.”
That is Paul Gitau Kabiru’s answer to the question: What is art to you? The 25-year-old second year student at the University of Nairobi is a pencil hyperrealism artist, who says his talent started manifesting right from childhood.
“Growing up, I would always run into a lot of trouble with my mother,” Paul recounts. “We used to live in a wooden house and I would always scribble or draw something on the walls with charcoal. One time I went as far as taking used engine oil and ‘painting’ the couch with it. Of course I received a proper beating afterwards, but looking back, I now realise there was a gift inside me that was just waiting to be discovered.”
Paul notes that it is while in high school that he got to discover his talent.
“My desk and books were just a mess. They had graffiti all over. Sometimes I would just be in class taking notes and I would write an alphabetical letter in a funny way. At that time, it was as if I was obsessed. I couldn’t stop drawing. And before I knew it, a whole page would be filled with some bizarre scribbling, which I would call art.”
When he finished high school in 2014 aged 16, he knew he wanted to enrol for a degree programme that would further his aspirations in art. However, he lacked the much needed knowledge and information on what such a course would entail. He thought that all Bachelor of Arts (BA) degrees are about the arts. Read More…
