3-D mural coming to Red Corridor event in Pontiac

An artist won’t add just another mural to downtown Pontiac, Ill., which boasts a plethora of them.

Instead, airbrush master Tang Dongbai will paint a sidewalk mural that appears three-dimensional, reported the Pontiac Daily Leader.

The newspaper explained:

For those not familiar with 3-D sidewalk murals, Arbogast described the murals as art that will look disproportioned unless it is viewed from a specific perspective or angle. The mural will be best viewed when looking south, so if people are standing outside the door of the Walldog museum and looking south toward the Pontiac Oakland Automobile Museum and Resource Center, they will be able to correctly view the optical illusion.

Tang will work on his creation starting Saturday during the Illinois Route 66 Red Carpet Corridor Festival.

Good examples of three-dimensional paintings are here. And here’s a video that shows some of Tang’s artwork:

Although Tang will paint throughout the weekend, he doesn’t expect to finish the sidewalk mural until the following week.

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