Check out this anamorphic row boat created by renowned chalk artist Tracy Lee Stum. It was painted on a sidewalk at Palm Hills in Cairo, Egypt. Like all of her work, this piece of sidewalk chalk art is extremely detailed and very realistic looking. I love how the guy in the picture has one foot […]
In this new painting by Rob Gonsalves, several rowboats can be seen floating on a leaf-covered lake. Take a look at the closest row boat, however, and you will notice something a little different. It seems that this boat is resting on the top of a tree. It is very interesting how Gonsalves uses floating […]
I came across this trompe l’oeil building painting while I was searching around for new illusions a couple of weeks ago. The mural gives the illusion that a very large ship is passing between two skinny buildings right in the middle of town. It is very well done and you can tell that it took […]
This old collectible card from 1926 was produced by a company called Major Drapkin & Co. We have previously featured a couple of optical illusion cards from the same company, The Rod Illusion and His Own Size?, but this one is from an entirely different series. Instead of being a traditional optical illusion, this card […]
A portrait of author Jules Verne can be seen below. Turning the picture upside down reveals a small ship can be sailing past an opening in the rocks. This topsy-turvy image was created in 1979 by Hungarian artist Istvan Orosz. Continue reading this post to view an inverted version of this image.
From 1903 to 1905, the New York Herald ran a series of original comic strips called The Upside Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo. This comic strip, created by cartoonist and illustrator Gustave Verbeek, consisted of a total of 6 drawn panels. After reading the 6 panels right-side-up, the entire comic could […]
Take a look at this boat that is hovering several feet over the water. How is this possible? The shadow cast by the boat on the floor of the sea and the angle that the photograph was taken from give us the illusion that this boat is somehow flying or floating. Photograph taken by Domenico […]
