An artist wraps a white sheet around the trunk of a tree and then paints.

[yuiyoshida]

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[Doodley]

1. Cool, but levitation works better.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Niiiiice!

[Chakaconcarne]

3. Betting the changing colors/light of sky forced some photoshopping. .

Super cool.

[LakeArenal]

4. Magic killer....

[BlancheSplanchnik]

5. Not necessarily...he's got his camera set up strategically,

At a particular angle so he's painting the perspective that fits that exact viewpoint.

He could have left the sky for last and painted according to what the sky was doing during the last minutes. And then snapped the pic.

Photoshopping seems contrary to the original intent, which is a trompe l'oeil piece. I mean, if he was gonna photoshop, he wouldn't need paint.

"trompe l'oeil
ˌtrômp ˈloi/
noun
visual illusion in art, especially as used to trick the eye into perceiving a painted detail as a three-dimensional object.
a painting or design intended to create the illusion of a three-dimensional object."

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12. this is way, way, way easier to photoshop than to actually paint

the artist would have to not only paint up close a perspective at a distance, but also account for the curvature of the tree.
not impossible, some people have a well-developed talent for this sort of thing, but way, way easier to photoshop.

until i see the flattened, unwrapped version, i'm assuming this was a photoshop and the real illusion was to make us think he actually painted it.

[LiberalLovinLug]

13. Really? Such skepticism

"not impossible, some people have a well-developed talent for this sort of thing" If you truly believe that then why would you assume that this particular artist does not possess that kind of talent? Or that just because something is way way easier to cheat on, that is what they must have done.

Sad that Photoshop has made these kinds of illusionary magical acts of art so suspicious now.

[unblock]

14. i've seen a lot of these brilliant perspective paintings/drawing,

and usually they also show an off-perspective so you can see what it looks like from a not-perfect perspective.

that shows that it's real.

it's the absence of that alternate vantage point that makes me skeptical.

[unblock]

17. Actually, now that I've zoomed in,

I think it's real. The detail doesn't seem like a photoshop job

[BlancheSplanchnik]

15. Artists don't tend to go for the easier idea. n/t

[unblock]

16. I suppose we're trying to determine if this is an artist or an illusionist

[Dream Girl]

6. That tree is kind of interesting looking even without the painting

It has a face and "private parts"

[forgotmylogin]

8. I noticed that too.

I thought he was going to put "clothes" on it at first!

[petronius]

21. Add me to the perv parade as well: as soon as I saw the tree, I expected

an entirely different final product...

[ananda]

7. This reminds me of Magritte!

Love it!

[JuJuYoshida]

9. and the tree didn't get hurt! Nice!

[berni_mccoy]

10. Can he wrap a sheet around Trump and paint him away too?

Because that's what we need right now!

[Marie Marie]

18. Not enough paint in the world to cover the Orange and the Ugly.

[BigmanPigman]

20. I am an artist and my creative mind had that same idea.

That would have to be photo shopped though unless we could persuade the fake prez to sit still for a minute or two.

[meow2u3]

11. Killer optical illusion FTW!

[joet67]

19. That is awesome!! nt