Special Effects of Painting

Special Effects of Painting

These amazing creations come from the mind of Matthew Albanese, who has a slight fascination with film, special effects and movie magic.

The photographs and the diorama for them (bellow) are homage's to the wetlands of the Hackensack River in New Jersey. He spent more than seven months turning ostrich feathers into willow trees (a painstaking process that involved dyeing, stitching and weaving each individual barb), tying raffia ribbon bits into cattails, and carving chocolate into mud.

To capture the stormy scene Mr. Albanese turned on a fan and planted dry ice behind the cattails; for the sunset version, he placed cotton batting and colored light bulbs behind a muslin sky.