"The Hunt" is a hyper-real digital oil painting by artist Meaghan Rey made after learning that the issues and pain she experiences in her hands will never go away, and will only get worse with age. Knowing that she can't give up art completely, and the amount of pieces she can physically make are numbered, Rey decided to only create works that are truly magnificent so that she can look at them and say "it's ok if I'm in pain - because what I made was worth it". "The Hunt" is the first of one of those pieces; a culmination of striking composition, subject, color, and execution - almost indistinguishable from an actual photograph. This piece took more than a month to complete followed by two ...