chalkart



Photographing the sidewalk chalk art is very difficult. It takes a great deal of precision and attention to detail. The artist needs to draw the art from a certain position, which gives the art the illusion of realism.

This page is just a fun place for everyone to see the cool optical illusions created by Julian Beever. His canvas is a sidewalk and his tool is chalk. He has worked in the UK, Belgium, France, The Netherlands, Germany, USA and Australia. He has been doing this for over 10 years, and had created quite a stir with his optical illusions. He has been shut down by city councils before, and has also made some mistakes in his calculations. Beever is most famous for creatinf chalk drawings that appear 3-D if seen from the correct angle.

Below is a chalk drawing of a globe for **Make Poverty History**, seen from both the correct side and the non-3D angle. This was made in Edinburgh for the G8 Summit held there.

Another drawing of underneath the city streets. Once again, it would only look 3 dimensional from one angle.

In this example, it looks like the woman in the center with the stroller should techincally only be a few feet farther back from the the edge of the shell wall. This is definatly one of thoese pictures that you can stare at for quite awhile. It looks very real and probaly took the arrtist a long time to render. Quite amazing!

Works Cited:

To see all his work: http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm

A fan of Julian Beever created this video collage of his work: media type="youtube" key="dyPhCO3LrtQ"

picture: http://www.coolopticalillusions.com/chalk-art/amazing-sidewalk-chalk-art.htm