Dante Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 Art student Sara Watson has found the ultimate way of avoiding traffic wardens – by making her car invisible. The 22-year-old student at the University of Central Lancashire spray painted a battered Skoda Fabia to match the car park and entrance to her art studio. Her work, created as part of her drawing and image making course at the university, creates the illusion that the car is see through. She was given the car from a breakers yard and worked for three weeks to ensure that it blended perfectly with its surroundings. "I was experimenting with the whole concept of illusion but needed something a bit more physical to make a real impact." said Miss Watson, who is from Ashton under Lyne. "People have been stopping in the street to look and coming up and almost bumping into it, so it's had the desired effect." The car is reminiscent of the work by pavement artist Julian Beever, whose attempts to trick people's minds into seeing perspective on the flat surfaces of paving stones. Steve Jackson, owner of Recycling Lives, the firm that gave Miss Watson the car, said: "When I first saw the photos I was convinced it was something which had been done on the computer, but when you look more closely you see the effort and attention to detail she has put into it. It is just amazing." http://www.telegraph.co.uk Spooky! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paj! Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 Interesting, but presumably fails if you look from any other direction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DuD Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 Interesting, but presumably fails if you look from any other direction? I would have thought so. I'm trying to imagine it, and it just doesn't seem as though it would work from more than one perspective. Not taking away from it in anyway what so ever. I used to do alot of drawing and it takes me like a day (and literally I mean a whole day) to produce just a picture (that i'm happy with). There must have been sooo much effort involved in this, so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted May 3, 2009 Author Share Posted May 3, 2009 Artists do put alot of effort into there work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ganepark32 Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 These remind me of the artist (Can't remember his/her name but their american) who paints stuff on solid walls, such as archways through to non-existant shopping malls, that hold a similar premise to this. They're really well done and the number of people I've seen walking into the wall thinking it was real is mind boggling. I'll try and find the artist and get some images of his/her work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoogleViper Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 I saw one of a well painted onto a circular arrangement of paving stones. It only worked for one direction but the amount of people who walked around it and tried to look down it was unreal. Even when they saw it was just a painting a lot of them still didn't walk on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 I always think things like this are great but I've never ever seen one in the flesh. Would really like to be able to see it from all angles and how they put these things together. The sort of artistic talent that I will never have! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cube Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 I always think things like this are great but I've never ever seen one in the flesh. Would really like to be able to see it from all angles and how they put these things together. The sort of artistic talent that I will never have! The majority of the perspectiveness is just simple maths (well, not simple. But still Maths). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro_Link Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 (edited) Artists do put alot of effort into there work. http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm ^ This guys stuff is AMAZING, check out the website... Edited May 3, 2009 by Retro_Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caris Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 Why didn't she paint the grill on her car? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro_Link Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 Why didn't she paint the grill on her car?It's the space behind the grill that's showing up, she would have had to put something behind it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EEVILMURRAY Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 Interesting, but presumably fails if you look from any other direction? Which makes the people who almost bump into it complete fucktards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tellyn Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan_Dare Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 haha awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbob Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 Very impressive. It always fascinates me how much detail goes into blending the objects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chairdriver Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 What happens when she can't park it again in the exact same position? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fierce_LiNk Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 What happens when she can't park it again in the exact same position? Faiiiiiluuuure. Although, I think this is pretty sweet. This is the kind of stuff that I find really cool, along with the Beever street-art pictures. I remember one maths teacher in my placement school had some of his pictures on his wall, and they did lessons based on this which focused on shape and space. Very cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GothicPlague Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 What happens when she can't park it again in the exact same position? With the window covered in paint I can't see her moving it very far anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CooInTheZoo Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 You just know some local douchebag is going to find it and throw up all over the bonnet now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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