These portraits aren't just painted on a canvas. The paint is captured between layers and layers of resin to create a vibrant, 3D reimagining of an art form as old as art itself. This is Marc Scheff.

[ekaggrat] is the exception. He’s already used a 3D printer to do some light painting, and now he’s doing it in color. This build is an extension of an earlier project we saw that used a ...

but Patrick Hughes' mind-boggling 3D art takes the concept to a whole other level. Hughes uses a style he created called "reverspective," painting uncanny optical illusions of a rooms with an ...

This story appears in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. To appreciate a painting, we’re taught to look for color, composition, and light. But how can a painting be savored by ...