Not the real thing

This guy does some of the most astonishing trompe l'oeil / spoof-the-eye chalk drawings I've ever seen. (I assume he has a web page somewhere, but I don't know where, so I've made a little web page for them at our own site. These images came to me from one of our Swiss friends this morning. Thanks, Res!)

Res says: "Julian Beever is an English artist who's famous for his art on the
pavements of England, France, Germany, the USA, Australia and Belgium." I can get a sense of why that would be...

Tags: trompe l'oeil, fool the eye, chalk, chalk painting, sidewalk art