These are perhaps some of the most amazing hand drawn illusions I’ve ever seen. They’re by an artist called Rob Gonsalves who is a Canadian painter of “magic realism.”
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You can buy the prints, images & books of Rob’s on Amazon. Hope you enjoy these beautiful photos as much as I do.

very interesting flows from nature to man-made and back again. Very interesting play with the water and the tiles.
—===Fly away===—
Truly amazing paintings…..
fantastic job, congratz!!!!
Very good indeed….
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Those are absolutely incredible. I didn’t think there were going to be so many… oh my.. *bookmarked*
man those pic r bugged out did a really good job ?? all of them
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awesome! I’m a big fan of these kind of things!
(I also bookmarked)
I’m usually not into modern surrealists (he calls it magic realism but whatever) but this really blew me away. Good stuff. This guy could hang with Magritte and S.D.
I am really impressed and inspired by this art.
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Unique creativeness and sense! Astounding!
I love painting and what my eyes have seen today is EXCEPTIONAL! Felicidades!
Fantastic pictures. They do that it returns to the childhood, to the magic and to the illusion
Hi sir,
your paintings are absolutely phenomenal.
really by seeing these illusions i became a superb fan of you.
and it gave a lot of interest on drawings. and i am glad that i can wish you a lot of success to you
wow, really plays with your mind. Great ideas. The one with the reflection of the trees and the ghost women in between is really spooky!
Nice one!never seen like this before…
fine…………very nice
gonsalves is genially….but the human element is excessivelly(womans, mens, childs,) in the pictures.