Optical Illusions “Background”

(3 votes)

Toine Heuvelmans submitted this original art: “Hi, I noticed on your great mighty optical illusions blog a number of trompe l’oeil, and remembered an exposition in Holland of the work of Cornelius Gijsbrechts. This Dutch painter was specialized in painting very realistic. He used this to paint for example “the back of a painting”. If [...]

Mural Trunk

(10 votes)

Another use of Trompe L’Oeil (murals) is to give simple objects depth and bulges. What you can see in these two photos isn’t real trunk, in fact it’s just a simple wooden square. Like an over sized brick. If you look closer, you will see that all the belts, nails and other ornaments are just [...]

Oregon Museum Mural

(4 votes)

For all of you that celebrate it, I wish you Merry, Merry Christmas! All others, I wish you happy hollydays as well! Be sure to spend them with your beloved ones, and enjoy yourself! Here’s today optical illusion submitted by one of our regular users. Ivai777 submitted this mural: “Hey, I found an illusion [...]

Paris Mural

(9 votes)

“London-based Frenchman” Xavier Kreiss sent me this after/before photo of a Paris building mural. When you see the first photo, you probably won’t notice anything strange with it. Now when you jumped inside, and saw second photo… Bam! It hits you. Can you believe this whole building was almost-flat wall before artistic painting? Really awesome! [...]

Night Train Mural

(5 votes)

Night Train mural is another masterpiece done by artist who calls himself “BluSky”. If you are regular visitor of Mighty Illusions, you might have seen his previous art posted on this site. Levitating Dumpster installment received huge feedback from our visitors. You can read the comments to see what I’m talking about. Another mystery illusion [...]

Amazing 3D Trompe Loeils

(9 votes)

We have posted many amazing chalk drawings and murals in the past, but this collection beats them all! All of the photos in this post were collected, and submitted by one of our fans named Adriano. If you jump inside this post you will see that every Mural is Trompe L’Oeil (“fool the eye”), and [...]

Madrid Building Mural Illusion

(11 votes)

Catalina sent in this graffiti/building illusion. It’s located somwhere on the streets of Madrid, Spain. Don’t know what the illusions actually is? Be sure to jump inside this article for second photo, and then you’ll understand :)

Fantastic Portico Mural

(16 votes)

Would you believe me if I told you that this fantastic portico doesn’t really exist! It’s “just” a mural, and what A Mural, I must say! It was painted by artist named Richard Haas on the facade of the Brotherhood building in Cincinnati, Ohio in year 1983. This Mural is real example of trompe l’oeil [...]