Click to expand, pictures of Broadstairs, Margate, Ramsgate and an optical illusion from the bookshop in Ramsgate

 

Aerial photo of Broadstairs probably early to mid 50s

Tug Aid in Ramsgate Harbour

Tug Vulcan in Ramsgate Harbour

Dent De Lion Gatehouse

 Pier Hotel Margate Advert

Unknown location probably north Thanet

The next bit of this blog post is about me drawing an optical illusion and how the inspiration came. This is mostly me talking to a future me for my reference, but also people ask about these things.

I was looking drawings by Salvador Dali, on my phone, in bed, Sunday morning (yesterday) and felt there was something about the shapes in this one that was worth further investigation.

Nostalgic Echo Dali

The Nostalgic Echo (1935) by Salvador Dali  illustration for the frontispiece of the book Nuits Partagees (Shared Nights), poems by Paul Éluard.

So I sketched this 

Which developed into this impossible object, instead of three dimensions it has four or five, I think. What do you think?

As you probably know I work at Michaels Bookshop in Ramsgate so the next stage was to represent my impossible object as a book.

Optical Illusion Drawing of a Book

Here is the result, I think this will be the draft for a painting. I think that as optical illusions go this one is to some extent original to me. This is fairly unusual with pen and paper optical illusions, so I am pleased about it.  

Here where I work at Michaels Bookshop we have more newly acquired secondhand books here is the link to the pictures of them