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Trompe L’Oeil Paintings

Trompe L’oeil paintings are "Trick of The Eye” pictures or illusion paintings. The artist needs to be highly skilled to produce illusionary paintings which will trick your eyes into believing what the artist wants you to believe or to question, if only for a brief moment. The trompe l’oeil paintings below, “Returning from the 4th Dimension”, “Escaping Barn Owl” and the comparison painting entitled “Barn Owl” show their subject matter attempting to leave their picture frames. That’s the illusion! The frames are only painted onto the canvas. I’m still learning how to do effective illusionary paintings and I do experiments from time-to-time. You could say that one of my medieval castle paintings has an illusionary feel to it as well; this being Carew Castle Turret Steps.

“Returning from the 4th

Dimension”

Acrylic on Canvas

203 mm x 254 mm

(8 x 10 inches)

Price: Not For Sale

“Escaping Barn Owl”

Acrylic on Canvas

254 mm x 203 mm

(10 x 8 inches)

Price: GBP 105.00

“Barn Owl”

Acrylic on Block Canvas

127 mm x 127 mm

(5 x 5 inches)

Price: GBP 85.00

About the Painting: “Returning from the 4th Dimension”

This painting is a variation on the original masterpiece by Pere Borrell del Caso. His Trompe de L’oiel painting is called, “Escaping Criticism” and it was painted in 1874 in oil on canvas. The original masterpiece hangs within Banco de España, Madrid. My version is a smaller one and was painted in 2005 in acrylic on canvas. I changed the composition slightly, as well as significant facial characteristics. I decided not to paint in his other leg in order to give the painting more mystique. I really painted it just for me and because I liked Pere Borrell’s original masterpiece. The “Escaping Barn Owl” below follows the same illusionary theme.

About the Painting: “Escaping Barn Owl”

The illusion for this painting is quite simply a fleeing barn owl seemingly flying out of his framed picture. There is no wooden picture frame; instead it is painted onto the canvas to aid the illusion. As you can see the owl looks as though he/she has just cleared the picture frame except for his/her right leg. You can just see his/her left foot clutching this side of the frame unlike the smaller version of the Barn Owl below.

About the Painting: “Barn Owl”

The “Barn Owl” image on the right needs to be replaced with a better one. The painting is not lop sided as it currently shows itself to be. It is a smaller version too of the similar Escaping Barn Owl painting above. This Barn Owl picture was painted originally for a miniature painting exhibition in Wales.