The strange green creature below is showing off his gymnastic skills on the parallel bars.  But are these bars really parallel?  Does he get a higher score for the extra degree of difficulty? Spanish professor Vicente Meavilla created this composition.  Meavilla uses felt-tip pens to color many of his drawings.

Skaters appear to come out of the clouds and onto the ice in this surreal landscape from Chow Hon Lam (Flying Mouse). To see more illustrations from Chow Hon Lam, have a look at Light Robber (one of my favorites) and Ladder Maker.

Take a quick look at the scene below.  Does something seem strange or awkward about it?  The tennis players are normal (i.e., right-side-up), but the rest of the scene has somehow been inverted.  The court and people on the perimeter of the image are upside-down.  This image can be hard to look at as your […]