Trompe-l’œil mural ~ Italian Renaissance Style

Natural colors are used as a palette to focus your eye on Ruthie Lowen’s Trompe-l’œil mural of an Italian Village set on a hillside for another of her innovate Wine Cellar murals. She uses  realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the Italian Renaissance Village actually appears in three dimensions.

Grapes vines twine around and escape from the background making the faux marble stonework look real. Using dull greens, yellows, warm ambers and faded reds, Ruthie gives the work the feeling of age.

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