This Former Architect Creates Magical Realism In Every Painting

Finally something good coming out of Canada. I'm JUST TEASING folks, lol. I love Canada. This painter hails from up North in Toronto and he specializes in optical illusions. His name is Rob Gonsalves.

He started painting at a very young age and by the time he was 12 yrs old he was a skilled painter. Growing up he spent much of his time daydreaming and his imagination was always working.

After he went to college he became an architect and worked in that career for 6 years but he found that he couldn't put his imagination to use so he went back to painting. Lucky for us.

His work caught on immediately once people saw his style and he's been tearing it up ever since.

He likes to take the natural world and surroundings and mix it with a magical, imaginary one. Like this one:

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Or, he uses two "normal" images and create an illusion that makes you look twice and each time you come back you'll see it in a different way!

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This is one of my favorites called Ladies Of The Lake:

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Here's a classic mind-bender in the likes of Salvador Dali:

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Rob starts his paintings as rough sketches as he works on them, developing the concept he wants and this takes many weeks. About 60% of his time on a painting is in this stage of building the elements in.

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When he has everything in place then he moves to the canvas and the actual painting takes 3 or 4 weeks.

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He loves to combine nature with the human built environment.

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He also loves to bend people's minds a little!

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This is another favorite, it's kind of eerie though:

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Here's another. Run girl run! lol.

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Another fascinating scene:

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Most artists have a site where you can go and purchase prints and so forth but I think he just uses his facebook page as his official site and to see more of his works you can just do an online search with his name.

I hope he's teaching other painters because I think he's amazing and can really influence the art world to create fascinating work. Kudos sir Gonsalves!

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Oh! Here's one more that I just found. I can study these all day!

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Thanks for stopping by folks, God bless you all!
-jonboy
Texas

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