Have any of you seen these amazing chalk art drawings in 3D by Julian Beever? They look so real, from the right perspective.

http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm

The pavement art is INCREDIBLE!!!! The 3-D art is amazing - especially when they show you what it looks like when viewed from different angles. Thanks for sharing this, estrajean - it really made my day~

Love, love this guy. His work is absolutely bril.

It is my personal opinion that perspective may be the hardest aspect of the visual arts to master... Color, tonality, composition... can be learned. Even anatomy can be learned with considerable practice. But there's something about Perspective that's a real booger-bear. I have long admired and envied the talents of the artists who not only mastered perspective-- but who could take it out and play with it and stand it on its head-- like Julian Beever.

Or the Italian and Greek classical artists who fooled the eye with "forced perspective" in their architecture... Or the modern Broadway theater set designers, like Jo Mielziner, who could create the illusion of a big, big 3D space in a relatively small-ish stage.

To a degree, it's all done with math... but its practitioners also have incredible "eyes" for such things....

What is wickedly talented about Beever is that he not only understands anamporphic perspective-- but he knows how to synthesize supposed "lighting conditions" that do not exist anywhere except in his drawings... (look especially at his WASTE OF WATER picture.... look at how his chalk objects seem to be bathed in the prevailing bluish/shady light of that London alleyway... That's no accident. Clever!!)

I had seen his work before, but didn't know the artist. What an eye. Great skills!
Thanks for the link, I bookmarked it, it's great!!

I really enjoy seeing what people do with their gifts.

I wonder how much longer "chalk" will be around.
Blackboards are almost gone.


Thank you for sharing

sillage

Thank you for this link!

HOW does he do that? Amazing.

wow. great link. His original paintings are so different in style then the pavement ones, both are lovely.

Thanks for posting this! What an amazing artist.