Fall Hollow Great Danes

Trompe l'oeil - A French term literally meaning "trick the eye." Sometimes called illusionism, it's a style of painting which gives the appearance of three-dimensional, or photographic realism. It flourished from the Renaissance onward. The discovery of linear perspective in fifteenth-century Italy and advancements in the science of optics in the seventeenth-century Netherlands enabled artists to render objects and spaces with eye-fooling exactitude. Both playful and intellectually serious, trompe artists toy with spectators' seeing to raise questions about the nature of art and perception.

In this piece painted by Rob, everything you see above is paint. It is a completely flat wall; there is no plant, urn or even shelf for that matter.

Mural - a painting on a wall, ceiling, or other large permanent surface.

It is a recent hobby picked up by Rob after years of sketching in graphite, charcoal and other mediums. To the left is a picture of our living room wall showing the first mural Rob ever painted. The wall is over 16 feet wide and was the first time Rob had ever painted with anything besides watercolor.

- Murals