Trompe l'oeil ceramics

Ceramics Trompe-l’oeil Sculpting with Rachael Jones | St. Lawrence University

David Furman- One of my favorite ceramic artists

Richard Shaw, master of trompe-l’oeil sculpture.

Sylvia Hyman’s trompe l’oeil ceramic sculptures

TROMPE L'OEIL PLATE WITH EGGS, Northern France, mid-18th century. Faience with applied eggs, painted yellow. No mark. D 22.5 cm.

Antique Continental Turkey Oyster Plate, Gilman Collamore, Union Square, N. Y. The original 19-century design for what is now called turkey oyster plates was French. The name. "turkey" was coined later when someone noticed that the oyster shells which form the backdrop for the 5 wells resemble a turkey head and tail feathers. It is unusual to find a turkey oyster plate with a pale pink turkey. Usually, the turkey is brown. We have pictured the turkey with his "head" to the left and "tail…

On the first inspection, you would believe that you're looking at discarded packaging and general litter. When in fact, it's a detailed painting and carved wooden sculpture by artist Tom Pfannersti...

Pancakes, berries & bacon

Trompe-l'oeil with a funk twist. Robert Arneson, American, b. Benecia, California, 1930–1992 Polychromed glazed ceramic, 6 1/8 X 6 3/8 X 6 3/8 IN. (15.5 X 16.0 X 16.0 CM.) Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

One of The Most Fun Things to do with clay is make it look like something else entirely, share it with the world and lay in wait. And beyond that kind of fun, there is a hefty tradition of trompe l’oeil. All the sculptural work here is hand-formed and handpainted with ceramic materials, fired and […]

Bacon, eggs, toast & strawberries

A striking and rare life-sized trompe l'oeil paper bag vase rendered in porcelain.

For this assignment we learned about value using pencil through a chart which gradually gets darker in value. We also practiced shading by adding value to four simple shapes: a sphere,cube,pyramid,...

Mary O'Malley