Optical Illusions Painted on Walls, Floors and Corners (20 Photos)

Odeith’s 3D graffiti makes concrete disappear

A wrecked bus fills an abandoned room. A concrete dome becomes an enormous beetle. A blue frog faces a man in a folding chair, and a porcelain bowl seems to jut out from a house. Odeith makes these scenes convincing with paint, perspective and the shapes already in front of him.

Born in Damaia, Portugal, in 1976, Sérgio Odeith began experimenting with spray paint in the 1980s and developed his anamorphic work in 2005. He paints across corners, floors and adjoining walls so that distorted sections line up from a particular viewpoint. Several of these 20 images include a bare surface or a second angle: the trick is easier to appreciate when you can see what he started with.

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🚆 Train Through the Warehouse — By Odeith

A box-shaped room and the wall behind it line up as a weathered train carriage. The building’s original corner becomes the front of the train, while the painted body continues behind a real pillar.

More: Odeith’s Train Illusion from More Angles

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🐝 “Mimic Wasp” — By Odeith

A wasp larger than the painter seems to hover beside the wall. Its painted shadow creates the gap; Odeith’s hand reaching toward its abdomen makes the scale unmistakable.

More: Mimic Wasp by Odeith

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🚗 “Classic Day” — By Odeith

A stained concrete block becomes a black Rolls-Royce, complete with chrome grille and a “CLASSIC” plate. Odeith shared the work as “Classic day”; the unpainted view reveals the car’s unlikely foundation.

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🐦 “Bird Hole” — By Odeith

A blue-and-orange bird seems to push through the old wall, its beak meeting an outstretched hand. Odeith shows the painting taking shape in his Bird Hole process video.

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🚌 Wrecked Bus — By Odeith in Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal 🇵🇹

The battered bus is painted across a concrete block in an abandoned factory. Compare the two views: the block’s shape stays the same, while the windows, wheels and shadow turn it into a vehicle.

More: How Odeith Painted a Bus on Concrete

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🐓 Giant Rooster — By Odeith

The rooster fills a corner made from concrete blocks. A man standing on a chair still falls short of its red comb, while the tail feathers spread across the adjoining wall. Photo by 1904manuel via Wikimedia Commons (cropped; CC BY-SA 4.0).

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🪲 “Touching Earth” — By Odeith

The rounded dome supplies the beetle’s shell; painted legs and antennae spread beyond it. Odeith titled the work “Touching Earth”. Beside the painted head, a person leans forward as if trying to push the beetle back.

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🥣 Porcelain Bowl and Swallow — By Odeith

Blue decoration follows the bowl’s curved surface, and a painted spoon rises above its rim. The dark shadow beneath the bowl makes it seem to project from the white façade.

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🚐 Camper in the Corner — By Odeith

The projecting cabin, front wheel and windshield are all painted onto an existing structure. A person leaning from the real opening becomes the camper’s passenger.

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🦘 Kangaroo over a Van — By Odeith in Darwin, Australia 🇦🇺

The kangaroo appears to balance above a tiny painted van, incorporating the utility box at the base of the wall. Odeith created the illusion for the 2019 Darwin Street Art Festival.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsKangarooOdeith · 2019 · Darwin, AustraliaDarwin Street Art Festival14 West Lane, Darwin CityVan painted on utility box1Odeith made this 3D kangaroo illusion on his first trip to Darwin, designed to be viewed from a specific angle, according to the festival.DSAF2The van was painted onto a utility box; according to Street Art Cities, it has since been replaced.Street Art Cities2019Festival record202127 MayCaravan Correspondent photo202124 JulCannon Hill Chronicles photo202414 NovSAC: van replaced202528 MaySAC: last seenRead the full file →

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🐸 A Frog Across the Room — By Odeith

The blue frog stretches toward a man sitting in a folding chair. Peeling plaster remains visible around its toes, keeping the real wall in view even as the head seems to project into the room.

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🩵 Letters Around a Corner — By Odeith

Angular blue letters appear to jut out from a small white structure. The work-in-progress and finished views let you trace the doorways and wall edges that remain underneath the painted geometry.

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🐸 Yellow Frog at the Corner — By Odeith

A splayed front foot reaches toward the camera. The shadow beneath the belly makes the yellow-and-black frog appear to sit above the pale concrete.

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🚛 Concrete Becomes a Truck — By Odeith

A green-and-cream truck cab appears where a plain concrete wall stood. The painted chassis extends across the adjoining surface, so the heavy vehicle seems to occupy the empty yard.

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🚰 A Tap from Two Angles — By Odeith

These two views show what anamorphosis does. The stretched tap in one photograph becomes a compact chrome fixture from the other viewpoint, with a dark insect hanging beneath the spout.

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💀 A Dome Becomes a Skull — By Odeith

The curved concrete surface supplies the rounded cranium. Painted black areas cut away the dome visually, creating hollow eye sockets, a nose cavity and a row of teeth.

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🪞 Chrome Lettering — By Odeith

Dark outlines, reflected highlights and deep shadows make the lettering look like bent metal. The blank-corner photograph shows how far the illusion reaches beyond the structure’s real edges.

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👄 Glossy Black Lips — By Odeith

Bright reflections curve across the dark lips, while pale teeth catch the light. Graffiti tags surround the mouth on the weathered wall.

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🐟 Two Silver Fish — By Odeith

Two fish stretch across a pale wall beneath a tiled roof. Their silvery scales and dark edges give them volume without relying on the building-sized corner tricks seen elsewhere in the collection.

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💀 Bone and Shadow — By Odeith

Warm brown shading gives this skull a weathered surface. The dark areas around the jaw and eye sockets make the curved structure appear carved rather than painted.