feature: diovadiova chrome portraits – the faces of painter kip omolade

Check out the Diovadiova Chrome portraits, the oil-paintings of visual artist Kip Omolade. Omolade, who started his career as a graffiti artist while interning at Marvel Comics and The Center for African Art, says that his portraits “historically connect to ancient, realistic African sculptures such as Benin ivory masks and Ife bronze heads”. He adds, in regards to creating each portrait, that each one is created in a “labor-intensive” process that involves making a mold of each model’s face, reworking the cast plaster sculpture, producing a version in resin, adding a chrome layer with artificial eyelashes, and then painting it hyper-realistically. Explore his work below. 

By Alexander Aplerku, AFROPUNK Contributor

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http://www.kipomolade.com