Want to trick your eyes!

Oh golly I was looking through my photos and I cam across my trompe l'oeil attmepts! So this is it sketching the outline And this is er it almost complete ... Well its not horrificly bad but compared to an article on the daily mail ( http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1187338/Off-wall-The-astonishing-3D-murals-painted-sides-buildings-trompe-loeil-artist.html ) i found on the web mine is pretty abysmal! So I thought I would do some research about them and hopefully I can reproduce some like the Hawaiian artist John Pugh, i.e something along the lines of this:



So Trompe L'oeils literal meaning is 'the trick of the eye' and these illusion painting have been around since 400 B.C ... architects have even found them in the ruins of Pompeii! It is usually comedic artwork to trick viewers in thinking that something is 3-D when actually it a 2-D painting