CHALK ON THE WiLD SiDE; THIS ASTONISHING 3D PAVEMENT ART CAN MAKE YOU THINK YOU'RE ON TOP OF THE WORLD'S BIGGEST BEER BOTTLE - OR ABOUT TO FALL DOWN A HOLE ...

THEY call him the Pavement Picasso. And it's easy to see why when you look at the stunning chalk drawings of English-born artist Julian Beever. He's been producing amazing 3D-style optical illusions since the mid-1990s - including drawings on Scottish streets. His Make Poverty History drawing was requested by Live8 to support the pressure campaign on the G8 in Edinburgh. Looked at from the correct angle, his work takes on a unique three-dimensional aspect, based on the French style of trompe l'oeil - which translates as "trick the eye". Now living in Belgium, much of his work takes a whole day to create- and 24 hours later the astonishing artwork is often lost forever, vanished under the feet of passing pedestrians.

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ROADWORKS: An 'underground' building site MAKE MINE A LARGE ONE: It looks like a big bottle but the model is really up close and Julian far away CONFUSED? YOU WILL BE: Left to right, Julian prepares to be rescued from a building by Batman and Robin, creates a 'missing' pavement sab and takes a dip in a 3D pool with a blonde bombshell FOOLING THE WORLD: Artist Julian Beever prepares to take the plunge, left, creates some Make Poverty History artwork in Edinburgh,designs a mural for the 1997 general election and, right,"digs a hole" in the street