Nigerian wonder artist Oresegun Olumide artwork draws international media attention
– CNN features him and his work recently
– His water droplet drawings attracts more attention
Oresegun Olumide
From an uncelebrated artist to an internationally recognized one Oresegun Olumide all within one week, Olumide is being celebrated by CNN.
The graduate of Painting from Yaba College of Technology, Lagos took over the Nigerian social media scene with his unique and hyper realistic paintings. Within the spate of one week, Olumide’s social media followers increase tremendously. His artworks attracted 27.2k fans on Instagram, 25k shares on Facebook, 12.6k on Twitter, 10.5k on Snapchat, 9.4k on Tumblr, 12.6k on Google Plus, and it is still trending. Olumide’s ingenuity catapults him to global relevance.
Foremost international media CNN is smitten by Olumide’s water droplets sliding down the faces of children and wrote: “The hyperrealism created in the oil paintings makes his work seems so life like that it is hard to believe they aren’t.”
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Olumide revealed to Naij.com the reasons behind his water droplets artworks. He said: “Everybody loves water but many do not think of appreciating water. Every day, everybody touches water but nobody thinks of creating something about water. That was the challenge I took and decided to do series of water on body artworks.”
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Explaining further on the rustic reasons behind his water drawings Olumide said his growing up in Shomolu suburban community where he assisted neighbours with household chores, he saw children bathing in the open and things like that helped his work of art.
Oresegun Olumide’s painting compete relatively well with photographs taken with digital camera. He has demystify artwork with his paintings. Olumide works from his Reality Edge Studio, Ikorodu, Lagos.....


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....here is the man...

Yaba the great