A Street Artist Creates Anomorphic Murals That Look Real

Portuguese artist Sergio Odeith has mastered the technique of painting murals that employ perspective tricks, which fool the viewer into perceiving the two-dimensional paintings as solid objects when viewed from certain angles.

Though mostly known for his trompe l’oeil decoration, Portuguese road artist Odeith has lately been adding larger-than-life insects to his or her repertoire. A number of the wall-based works are placed in corners and need careful planning to achieve an anamorphic effect. You may view more of his works on Instagram.

H/T thisiscolossal

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Otherworldly and Vibrant Murals by Aaron Glasson

New Traditional Maori Murals in Mount Maunganui & New Zealand by Fin DAC

Our Irish friend Fin DAC has spent the past couple of weeks of 2017 and the first of 2018 down under in New Zealand painting in festivals at both Mount Maunganui and Christchurch both coordinated by Street Prints.

Like his previous trip to The Mount 2 decades past, the globetrotting artist focussed his job on the local Egyptian culture, painting two murals with topics of ‘household’ and ‘protection.’
His Mount mural: Hapu (a Maori word that may mean ‘household’ and ‘pregnant’) includes 2 ‘firsts’ for the artist. A pregnant mother, resplendent in traditional Maori clothes, with a young daughter in tow. Additionally, it references his past mural at the Mount two years back with a manifestation from the eyes. The mural is just another addition to his ‘Hidden Beauty’ series, but he informs us it can be found somewhere on Maunganui Road. The mural features another of Fin DAC’s efforts to make murals stick out from the surface or wall with strategically positioned cut-out feathers rising over the rooftop of the building. Plus it also again features a particular eye reflection but this time to his ‘Hapu‘ mural detailed above.
The mural is located on the front of the YMCA building on Hereford Road.
The artist is now heading to Australia where he claims more street work.

Marching Silhouette Murals by David de la Mano

Spanish street-artist David de la Mano depicts anonymous hordes of soldier-like silhouettes marching to unknown destinations within a real world. The characters have legs and arms that appear to morph into tree limbs and roots–a reference to displacement–although some seem to have the heads of animals like dogs or birds. His latest pieces seem to consciously draw connections to the continuing refugee crisis. The artist is currently in London ahead of an upcoming solo show titled “Adrift” at Hang-Up Pictures.

All united, they are traveling to a destination unknown. Boats with broken sails and girls with animal heads ramble without direction but are all connected by an uncertain journey.
Adrift portrays the anonymous epic of traveling on a rough boat or passing through fortified wire fences — all aspects of the present fear of several nations to the refugee invasion. Adrift diagnoses the classic concept of migration and type behavior. It refers to the drifting motion which characterizes the migrant’s journey along with also the determination and strength that grows and develops when your house and your neighborhood have already been disfigured.
De la Mano is producing some new acrylic, java, and ink functions for the Adrift show, using some of the profits from 1 variant to be contributed to the Refugee Community Kitchen. Seen here are some recent murals in London, Germany, and Italy, with added murals on his blog.