tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489310405541465454.post1966212043595351327..comments2023-10-11T07:35:31.358-07:00Comments on Knights of Creativity Spirit & Ale: Perspective!dkWellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14036130304612683613noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489310405541465454.post-74507069955603981312008-08-04T05:50:00.000-07:002008-08-04T05:50:00.000-07:00As Monty Python would say, "That's a hors...As Monty Python would say, "That's a horse of a different color!" Outstanding images. A most unique talent and creative mind. Trompe-l'oeil is an incredible art form. Long before man used computers and software programs, creative minds figured out how to give flat drawings a 3D effect. The hallways in the Vactican Museum in Rome are full of trompe-l'oeil work. It amazing to see pictures, but a "horse of a different color" to see this work in person!Sir Hook of Warrick aka "David K Wells"http://www.blogger.com/profile/14036130304612683613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489310405541465454.post-75118792865980574992008-08-04T08:49:00.000-07:002008-08-04T08:49:00.000-07:00Yeah Julian is pretty well known in these parts....Yeah Julian is pretty well known in these parts. I was lucky enough to see one of his drawings in London, the " Girl in the swimming pool" one... You have to stand in exactly the right place though, to get the desired effect. As in life they are up to 40 ft long extending down the pavement...and its the foreshortening that does the trick...<br> I do basic Trompe-l'oeil ( trick the eye ) in my Mural work, which i get occasionally. My biggest one was to draw the Mud Cathedral of Timbuctoo in Africa on the front of a African Folk Art shop in Oxford..<br><br>As you say it has been going on for years. In King Henry the 8ths time the artist Hans Holbein<br>did a picture called the Ambassador. At the bottom is what looks to be a giant smear of birds poop.... ...if you go to the very edge of the painting and look along the flat of it, you see the white streak is in fact a Skull.<br>It is possible to see it if you print it out, and look along the paper. Here is the website picture.<br><br>http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/largeImage?workNumber=NG1314&collectionPublisherSection=work<br><br><br>Sir dayvd.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com