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| Aerial photo of Broadstairs probably early to mid 50s |
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| Tug Aid in Ramsgate Harbour |
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| Tug Vulcan in Ramsgate Harbour |
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| Dent De Lion Gatehouse |
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| Pier Hotel Margate Advert |
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| 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.
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Nostalgic Echo Dali
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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.
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| 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.
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