Painter does Negatives

[drd1135]

This one is weird but also kinda neat.

This Artist Has Mastered Painting Pictures as Negatives

German painter Melvin Werner has achieved significant popularity thanks to his incredible paintings that look like photographic negatives. For modern

petapixel.com

 

[Irene McC]

Interesting - I saw this in Berlin in 2019 and it certainly was the first time I'd ever seen something like this.
It's by a different artist (see the image below of the completed work with info)

Join to see EXIF info for this image (if available)

 

[drd1135]

Apparently, this is a style. It's also one of the options of PS under the curves tool.