Asheville Mural Project working on River Arts District mural

Jason Sandford

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The Historic Cotton Mills Studio has hired the Asheville Mural Project to paint a new mural on the front of its building in the River Arts District. 

From Dreamspider’s Blog:

The studio owners “decided on a mural, but not just any mural, they wanted a “Trompe l’oiel”. Trompe l’œil, (French for ‘deceive the eye’, pronounced [tʁɔ̃p lœj]) is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the impression that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions.

Ian Wilkinson the Mural Program Director of the Asheville Mural Project, a program of Asheville’s non-profit Arts 2 People came up with the ideal solution. This mural [rendering shown below] should be completed by mid-October 2010.

Click over to see the rendering. Very cool.