Side-walk artist

Many of us have seen his work. It is often passed around in e-mails. He is Julian Beever, the sidewalk chalk artist who has become known for his 3-D art and illusions http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm He is in Toronto! I hope that his work is still at the corner of Eglinton and Yonge after the rain we had. I am planning to get there and have a look. His work has always fascinated me and obviously many others.

Mr. Beever is from Dover, England. Toscano Pizza has hired him to draw on boards brought in for the occasion. This is the first I have heard of the pizza; will have to look it up. Riocan which owns the building and the square where he is working has not helped make his work easier by placing a giant yellow Dumpster next to the artist. Sometimes people lack understanding of the impact of events. Beever has commented that the area is not particularly attractive and it would be hard to disagree.

Beever left art school and started his career in York, England where he was a busker for a Punch and Judy puppet show. He pioneered 3-D drawings and his career took off when his girlfriend took photos of the 3-D images and placed them on the Internet. Last week, he was in Montevideo drawing a Ballantyne's scotch bottle, next week he is in Bangkok drawing Piper's whisky bottle. Nice life.

Wonderful what images on the Internet can do for some careers.