Not the real thing

[dianeduane]

This guy does some of the most astonishing trompe l'oeil / spoof-the-eye chalk drawings I've ever seen. (I assume he has a web page somewhere, but I don't know where, so I've made a little web page for them at our own site. These images came to me from one of our Swiss friends this morning. Thanks, Res!)

Res says: "Julian Beever is an English artist who's famous for his art on the
pavements of England, France, Germany, the USA, Australia and Belgium." I can get a sense of why that would be...

Tags: trompe l'oeil, fool the eye, chalk, chalk painting, sidewalk art

Comments

[kellan_the_tabby]

I can't see it.

I mean, I know it's fake. I _know_ it. And I'm staring at it and staring at it and it _just_looks_real_.

*boggles*

[janeway216.livejournal.com]

The trick is that they only work if you're standing and looking at them from one perspective. He has pictures of them on his site of what they look like from the other way, and it breaks the illusion quite well.