Clown Illusion Print

Print. Acrylic on canvas.  I've always been fascinated by optical illusions.  I grew up reading an old text book about how they worked, with pages and pages of examples.  a simplified black and white version of this was one that always stuck in my memory.  Inspired by painters like Dali, I wanted to try my hand at a more realistic and detailed version of the illusion.  While at a portrait angle, its an abstract clown face. At landscape angle, its a circus scene with a unicycler, elehant, and clown