In honor of Halloween, I thought I would post up something that I find to be a little bit on the creepy side. Some artist (if you know who did this, please let me know and I can add a credit at the bottom of the post) decided to paint a full eye on the […]
TutoDraw creates a lot of interesting videos like these on his YouTube channel. Here, he uses red and black india ink, a pencil, and a white piece of paper to create the illusion of a hole in his hand. It looks like you can see right through his palm onto the white paper beneath his […]
Natalie Fletcher has a very interesting job… she paints bodies. The About Natalie section of her website indicates that: A young Natalie realized, around the age of 5, that drawing was a lot more interesting than Math class, and so it started. Around the age of 15 she discovered paint. Little did she know her […]
Do you notice anything peculiar about this chameleon standing on a green branch? Would you believe that it is actually not a chameleon at all? Would you believe that it is made of two painted women? Take a look at the image a bit closer and you can figure out exactly how this extraordinary body […]
This striking photograph from Alexander Khokhlov’s “2D or not 2D” series looks like it could be an illustration of a woman in a comic book. Surprisingly, it is an actual model (her name is Ekaterina Ashikhmina) with her face and hair painted by make-up artist Valeriya Kutsan. This photographic series was selected as one of […]
We featured several of Liu Bolin’s camouflaged body photographs on An Optical Illusion a couple of years ago. If you are new to the site or happened to have missed those, then feel free to check them out here. The photograph below features Liu Bolin doing what he does best – hiding in plain sight […]
Liu Bolin is a master of camouflage. So much so, he is often called “The Invisible Man”. Liu was born in China’s Shandong province and earned bachelor and masters degrees from Shandong College of Arts and Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, respectively. He is currently represented by Eli Klein Fine Art Gallery. The […]
