The Amazing 3D Sidewalk Art Photos

I find this guy amazing... This is Julian Beever an English chalk artist who has been creating trompe-l'oeil ("trick the eye") chalk drawings on pavement surfaces since the mid-1990s. His works are created using a projection called anamorphosis, and create the illusion of three dimensions when viewed from the correct angle.

Besides pavement art, Beever also paints murals and replicas of the works of masters and oil paintings, and creates collages. He works as a freelance performance artist and creates murals for companies. He has worked in the UK, Belgium, France, The Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Spain, the U.S., Australia and Brazil.

Below are some of his great Anamorphic illusions drawn in different locations.


Picture below is part of a series used by White's Electronics of Inverness in Treasure Hunting magazine.

Most of his pictures can take a whole day to create and by the next day they are often gone, vanished under the feet of passing pedestrians. It is a very evanescent art form, one that lives mostly through photographs taken at the time.


The globe was done in Edinburgh City Centre. Sideward photo of the globe drawn in Edinburg City Centre. It has the length of 13m (40 feet) long.


The girl sitting on top of the W is not a drawing at all.