Street artist Julian Beever is the subject of Concrete Canvas, currently airing (and repeating) on Sky Arts and Sky Arts HD.  This fascinating ten-part series originally commissioned for Voom’s Gallery HD in the United States, focuses on Julian’s travels around the world crafting trompe-l’œil chalk drawings that create three-dimensional, optical perspective illusions.

Beever, the ‘Pavement Picasso’ describes the process as “anamorphosis” and the end results are both fascinating and remarkably effective.  Each episode provides an insight into the background and creation of the drawing together with short sequences featuring some of the city’s urban street artists.

The short clip below includes a few highlights from the Paris episode of Concrete Canvas, the subject being a 3D chalk drawing of the Eiffel Tower.

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