Each of his creations can take up to three days to complete and, by their nature as street art, are never permanent. "If it rains it means I've done a lot of hard work for nothing, but I usually manage to avoid that," he said. 

The illusion of the PC was drawn on The Strand, London.

Self-Portrait of the artist with liquid refreshment.

Hard to believe that the little boy is standing flat on the pavement!

Julian admits that some people see his work as graffiti,

And don't feel it has a place on public streets.  Happily, he says,  

He mostly receives a positive reaction and people like and enjoy his art.

Did you spot tiny Julian Beever on the Top of the Bottle?

The 3D aspect to his work came much later while he was working in Brussels ,

'I decided to get into 3D after seeing the effect of tiles being removed

From the street, and later trying to recreate the sense of depth in a drawing.'

People avoid the hole.

Hosing down the street

Everything is fake, even the hose and water!

Rafting

Watch out!

Swimming pool in the The High Street

Girl on a beach mat

Canal Street - New Orleans

Large crowds gathered to see this portrait of Bill Clinton, drawn on his inauguration as 41st president of the USA.

A slight accident on a building site in Vienna

There is no hole in this pavement.

'Today I'm drawing Felix the Cat gate-crashing the Chinese New Year

Of the dog.  He's popping put of the ground in a Chinese dragon costume.'

Chinese Dragon with Felix the Cat

Politicians get sucked into a pit.

Who will save them?

Baby Food

Baby Food viewed from the opposite side

'Once I realized you could make things go down,

I realized you could make them appear to go up

And I began experimenting.'

Make Poverty History - side view - 40 ft long

Make Poverty History - front view

Amazing!

Times Square

Art for the people.

'My art is for anybody, it's for people who wouldn't go into an art gallery.

It's art for the people.'

'Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books.

Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians and so-called experts.'

Julian works in chalk, so his art, which takes up to 3 days to complete,

Is there only as long as the elements allow,

'If it rains it means I've done a lot of hard work for nothing,

But I usually manage to avoid that.'

Visit with Santa

The important thing for me is to get a photo of it at the end.  

For me, I'm working towards building a photograph as my end result,

And if I get that I'm happy.'

When viewed from certain angles, Beever's intricately detailed chalk sketches create a convincing impression of depth on the flat surface of paving stones.

From other perspectives, however, his drawings appear strangely distorted and bear little resemblance to their intended image.

To construct his illusions Beever uses a camera lens to help him manipulate the image on the flat surface to appear more realistic.

By using techniques of perspective pioneered by artists such as Leonardo da Vinci in the 15th century and Hans Holbein in the 17th century, Beever's anamorphic art blends reality with art to fool the human eye into seeing an image that doesn't truly exist.

'The secret is to set up a camera on a tripod and keep it in one spot

And check every mark you make.  It's really just playing with perspective

To make it appear different to what it really is.'

   Self portrait