Trompe L'Oeil Painting

Yeah, so this isn't a sketch by OH WELL. I've been super busy with schoolwork recently... essays and other overdue stuff is piling up now, and I have a lot of art to finish every week in order to complete the course in time. Let me tell you - online school is hard. I'll admit that it does have perks, like being able to give yourself time off and all that jazz but in the end, you live your life in one room pulling ridiculously long shifts six days a week to keep it under control, with no human interaction and severe lack of Vitamin D. I've never felt so unhealthy. [/whining]

But it's almost done! I only have a few more weeks left and then I am free. (Till next year, but at least that's in a 'bricks and mortar' school.)

This is a Trompe L'Oeil oil painting I did last month. The whole point was to try and make the objects look as realistic as possible, so the observer thinks they're looking at a photograph. The key was to use a shallow depth of field by placing the background very close to the foreground, to make it easier for shadows etc. I stacked the entire Harry Potter series behind a little cat ornament. I'm actually quite proud of it, but it took ages to do.

I'll probably be back with more old art stuff soon, since I fail at new sketches.