Jamie Harkins

Have you ever drawn or written something down on the sand with some sticks or your finger while you are at the beach? Well.. I have. I usually built some sandcastles and write my name on the sands when I was little (but I still write my name on the sand when I go to beach :P). But with this experience from childhood or even today, you will find that our work is just a doodle if you see the work of this artist. 

This creative artist named Jamie Harkins uses anamorphic technique where you can only see the drawing on certain spot to see them as 3-dimensional. But this technique is hard to express since the artist themselves need to calculate mathematically while drawing an object. 

The reason why he started to create this type of art is he wanted to have something new and add some 3-dimensional impact because he thought the beach seemed quite boring because of its calmness. And for each of his work, people posed within the work which makes the drawing more realistic. So see more of his works below: 

My favorite! *_*

It's some random things but famous Leonardo da Vinch also was influenced by anamorphic technique and you can see some of 3-dimensional effect from his works :) It's really amazing that the art techniques is transferred over generations and sometimes it is modified or remained the same.. art is so amazing! :)


*Image source: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jamie-Harkins-Artist/128096810571474

Felice Varini

This mystique and extraordinary is created by a contemporary artist named Felice Varini from Switzerland. His works uses visual optical illusions in 3-dimensional space, and the way he work is very unique: he only uses something called projection and stencil for last 30 years since 1979, and he still creates his art pieces in same method. Also he uses a technique called anamorphic - makes an object look different by which angle you sees it - and shows 2-dimensional point of view in 3-dimensional space. 

It seems that a square frame is installed with blue colored iron bands, 

... but as you change the direction, the side of square frame is scattered in all directions. 

I probably will fall in love if an art gallery has these type of work on their gallery!

It looks like old temple or maybe a palace, and it seemed that the place is decorated with red cellophane papers. And the pattern of floor is similar to the red square patters, so probably Felice Varini intended to have this effect? It feels like the art it is very simple but I'm trying to solve hidden puzzle :'(

And more of his marvelous works: 

The scale of his works are very huge, and he also works on big projects for long time where his works are installed in the urban spaces. 

I kind of want to visit those places after I've seen his works. Maybe sometime in future? I'll be back with more amazing arts to share :)


*Image source: http://www.varini.org/