The earliest chalk drawings date from Paleolithic times. The latest date from today.

You’ve probably already seen Julian Beever’s work. Email of his fantastic sidewalk chalk art has been circulating for years. His work depicts amazing realism in the most surreal ways, often appearing as gaping holes in the sidewalk or monstrously huge insects and other creatures.

Often putting himself into the final product, Beever would appear to be standing atop a tottering tower or preparing to dive from the top of a waterfall or being rescued from a burning building by Batman and Robin, while all the time merely standing on a sidewalk on which he’s created a wonderful optical illusion.

Although he does fine portraits and landscapes, Julian Beever’s specialty is trompe l’oeil (trick of the eye), a form of optical illusion used as far back as ancient Greece and Rome. Beever’s artwork is created to be seen from a particular point of view that suggests proportions and depths that actually don’t exist.

To understand how he achieves these special effects, here are some of his works as seen from the intended point of view as well as a revealing side angle…

Beever on Top of the World	Side View of the World
Giant Man-Eating Lobster	Reverse Angle, New Perspective
Beever Tests the Water	Same Pool - Different Viewpoint

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