Bert Monroy - Photoshop Painting Master

So I've found out about this guy a few years back. But couple weeks ago I was listening to a podcast where the host mentioned him and exhibit he is currently holding. And then I remembered all the amazing work he's done that i've ssen. Bert Monroy is THE GUY when it comes to photoshop realism art. He is my inspiration for all the stuff I do in Photoshop pretty much. He's his some of this most recent work. He considers himself a hyper-realist artist since he creates his paintings completely from scratch using reference photos.

Any1 here from the city of wind? This is an amazing panorama of the Damen Station on the Blue Line of the Chicago Transit Authority.
heres the stats on this actual painting because pic doesnt really do it much justice:
The image size is 40 inches by 120 inches.
• The flattened file weighs in at 1.7 Gigabytes.
• It took eleven months (close to 2,000 hours) to create.
• The painting is comprised of close to fifty individual Photoshop files.
• Taking a cumulative total of all the files, the overall image contains over 15,000 layers.
• Over 500 alpha channels were used for various effects.

here are some more detialed pics of the painting

It's crazy to think of a person spending sooooooo mucccchhh time on a single piece. it is nothing short of amazing though here are some more.



check out more of his work here on his site