EPPH - Every Painter Paints Himself

Metamorphic Form

Craig Tracy, a painter and former illustrator, creates arresting images (left) and then shows us how he did it (right). Few art historians realize that great masters, far more creative obviously than Tracy (no offense intended), often use the same method but do not tell us. There are a few minor masters, like Salvador Dali and René Magritte, who make obvious what others hide but most keep it to themselves so that later artists can marvel as observers at the sudden realization of a hidden form. Most other viewers never see it. Unlike Tracy's, however, a master's hidden form carries with it its original meaning thus enriching and expanding the content of the final artwork. 

Although art history is littered with thousands of examples, we have only recently begun to reveal them on Every Painter, all for the first time. They include Poussin's head in Balthus' Mountain, Gauguin's face in some plants, the head in Leonardo's Landscape  and his eye in the Storm. See others under the theme Veiled Faces.

Here is a link to Tracy's website.