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Kalliopi Monoyios is the illustrator of several best-selling science books including Neil Shubin's The Universe Within, Shubin’s Your Inner Fish, and Jerry Coyne’s Why Evolution is True. Her illustration portfolio can be found at kalliopimonoyios.com.
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Marlin Peterson's arachnids atop the Seattle Armory
Marlin Peterson’s spectacular trompe l’oiel of two opiliones (commonly known as daddy long legs) atop Seattle’s Armory is bound to give arachnophobes a run for their money. Trompe l’oeil (literally “trip the eye”) is a classic mural technique that is used to create the illusion of a three-dimensional object on a flat surface. Because of the tricks of perspective involved, it usually works best from one specific angle – in this case, the observation deck of the Seattle Space Needle. In general, I dream of a time when we can look at our cities from above and see a patchwork of green roofs and garden spaces bringing plants’ mitigating effects to our harshest man-made spaces. Until then, I’ll settle for mind-blowing art that reminds us of what our cities’ roofscapes might harbor looking forward.
Read up on the mural’s progress from sketch to finished piece
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About the Author: Kalliopi Monoyios is the illustrator of several best-selling science books including Neil Shubin's The Universe Within, Shubin’s Your Inner Fish, and Jerry Coyne’s Why Evolution is True. Her illustration portfolio can be found at kalliopimonoyios.com.
Follow her solo on Twitter at @eyeforscience. For tweets from the whole Symbiartic crew,
Follow on Twitter @symbiartic.
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They are wonderful, very realistic except for the scale of course.
Link to thisand thank goodness for that… I’m ok with arachnids as long as they’re smaller than I am!
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