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Artist Bradley Hart uses bubble wrap in a whole new way... no popping here!

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Date
22 March 2013

No one can resist the lure of bubble wrap. Popping those little beauties is most definitely the best thing ever, but for Bradley Hart, bubble wrap has taken over his life. Through a time-consuming process of injecting individual bubbles with acrylic paint, Bradley has created a series of realistic portraits and street scenes. The paint that escapes from those little bubbles imprint themselves onto a canvas to create rain washed looking versions called Impressions. The portrait of modern icon Steve Jobs took some 150 hours injecting more than 16,000 bubbles with 89 different colours. Wow. Feel some sympathy for the guy, the sacred act of popping bubble wrap will never be the same again.

A portrait of a person with glasses and a beard, created using a dense grid of tiny, colourful dots. The pointillist style blends shades of red, blue and white to form the figure against a textured blue background.
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Bradley Hart: Steve Jobs

A pointillist painting of the Washington Square Arch in New York. People gather in the foreground beneath a black lamp post, with green trees and city buildings visible through the archway.
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Bradley Hart: Washington Park Square

A close-up portrait of a person with blonde hair, rendered as a dense grid of tiny dots. The figure looks directly at the camera with a neutral expression.
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Bradley Hart: Sara

A portrait of a person wearing black-rimmed glasses and a white turtleneck. The image is composed of thousands of tiny, overlapping circles, creating a textured, pointillist effect.
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Bradley Hart: Jeremy

A group of people gather in a city square, surrounded by tall, traditional buildings. One person in the foreground wears a blue top and white trousers, while others stand nearby in a casual crowd.
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Bradley Hart: Dam Square, Amsterdam

An impressionistic painting of a busy city street on a rainy day. Blurred figures walk across a wet road that reflects the surrounding buildings and a red bus.
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Bradley Hart: Impressions, Dam Square, Amsterdam

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