The fish in the resin of Keng Lye

Keng Lye creates a small world of resin and realistic painting palm-sized. In the hands might have a bowl full of water with a goldfish and not even notice that it is fake. The art of illusion sometimes expresses itself with small ornamental objects. Look at the fish in the resin of Keng Lye in the series named Alive Without Breath.

Keng Lye, from Singapore, uses a technique very similar to that of Japanese artist Riusuke Fukaori of which I have already mentioned in this article: Riusuke Fukaori.

Thin layers of transparent resin and acrylic paint to make goldfish, octopus, suspended shrimp. As with a graphics program, the asian artist, using layers to compose a highly detailed illustration by the three-dimensional result.

You might find an octopus in a wooden bowl and a frog resting on a leaf in a bucket of aluminium.

Compared to fellow Japanese work there is a further evolution and even more so a sense of three-dimensionality. As you can see in some works the animals seem to do peeping out of the water.

But how to achieve this extraordinary result? How do you let out from a 3D object surface when in fact there is no 3d object?

For this he found a simple and effective solution: with pebbles and eggs shells applied all last layer of transparent resin has managed to bring out the two-dimensional drawing and give it a feeling of reality even more believable.