Dan recently showed me the great work from Carl Brenders, a Wild Life artist that uses so much detail it can easily be mistaken for a photograph.
My obsession with the realism from Bert Monroy using Photoshop has carried over into this amazing style of painting photo quality pictures.
Brenders' insistence on anatomical perfection in his paintings stems from his philosophy that nature, itself, is perfection: “That is why I paint the way I do with so much detail and so much realism — I want to capture that perfection," he says. [Watsons Wild Life]
I don't see an official site for Brenders but here are two galleries displaying or selling his work.
The wildlife images of Brenders' art are first created from pencil sketches; from these sketches his mixed media paintings of watercolor and gouache are completed with a technique he has developed during the last 25 years. His paintings, encompassing every intricacy of nature, devote equal attention to the detail of the wildlife subject and its habitat as well as to the mood created by the light.
A few other artists with similar work: