Aliza Razell and mythological photography

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Aliza Razell is an American artist whose peculiarity is creating experimental self-portrait photography with the use of Photoshop, combining pre-existent photography with colorful watercolor.

Through this program of photo modification, she adds wings to subjects, making explosions of colors become part of the different pictures.
"I create the photo and the painting separately and then combine them in Photoshop. On a technical level, I like to think of this as a sort of Brechtian device -- in a medium of Photoshopping the impossible to look seamlessly real, I think it's refreshing to have pieces that not only admit to not being real, but celebrate their two-dimensionality.

I do not add shadows or reflections or anything else to make the paint look "really there", relying instead on the power of illusion", she explains.
Her art tells stories of myths, with the use of a lot of fantasy and a mix of bright colors, leaving an aura of magic over every picture.