By Margherita Cole on August 8, 2021

The amount of skill and patience… incredible!

Have you ever come across a work of art that makes you do a double-take? Well, Australian artist CJ Hendry specializes in trompe l’oeil drawings. Her latest series captures the intricate details of varieties of flowers in massive, hyperrealistic renderings.

Each one is made using a variety of colored pencils. Hendry masterfully layers and blends the different hues together to build dimension in her drawings. As a result, her blooms appear to have real depth, so much so that they fool viewers into thinking that the petals could be plucked from the paper.[…]

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