Not an artist?!
So nice it makes me wonder if he had help. I hadn’t heard he was an artist.
Not an artist?!
You don’t have to be a great artist to do this. It helps if you have professional guidance or personal crafting experience.
There are many services today that will take any photo you have and print a T-Shirt or a hat or a ceramic cup with that image.
One could take the same process and add an overlay of (impasto-like) texture to produce a mosaic effect as shown here.
One need not be an artist to generate such a picture. One simply has to have the necessary software. Then one uploads the thousands of individual little images (here: of the thousands of fans) and the single main image (here: of Leonard Nimoy giving the Vulcan salute taken from the episode "Amok Time"*), and the program automatically generates the composite image.
Regards,
*Yes, I admit that I'm a Trekkie - look for me in the palm of Spock's right hand.
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I know he is a collector of western art and antiques.
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