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Objective:  To create optical illusions that trick the eye and to understand the fundamentals of how optical illusions achieve this.

Steps:

1.  Look at examples of optical illusions, determining how they trick the eye.

        Examples:  http://www.ads-online.on.ca/illusion/directory.html

                        http://www.optillusions.com/

        M.C.Escher

2.  Optical Illusions are achieved through the use of contrasting colors, repetition and space relationships.

3.  Draw a minimum of five small thumbnail sketches in pencil of optical illusions. 

Examples of thumbnails:

4.  With the instructor, choose the one that is most effective.

5.  Enlarge the optical illusion onto a 12x18 sheet of drawing paper.

6.  Use contrasting colors.

Examples