Oleg Shuplyak is a great oil painter from Ukraine whose art is simplistic yet cleverly uses people and the environment to create an illusion, mainly being a portrait.

Though Oleg studied architecture, I really appreciate this great detour that he has taken in his life. Sure there are plenty of illusional artworks around and I’m pretty sure they are good, the art of Oleg is also special.

It is effortless to spot the illusion in his art , objects and figures are aligned perfectly creating outstanding illusions that are easily spotted. I have to say though some paintings seem to try really hard at creating the figure rather than focusing on making it natural. Other than that, they’re great.