Most people have seen art in the form of a painting, sculpture, or drawing.  But junior Joe Burns took his art skills to a new level when he took on the challenge of anamorphic art, or “slant art.”

Anamorphic art is a distorted projection or perspective requiring the viewer to use special devices or occupy a specific vantage point to reconstitute the image.

Burns decided to take on this form of art for his individual art project.  Located in one of the crop circles in the courtyard, Burns drew with chalk a 3-D basketball “cracking” the concrete.

“I wanted to experiment with using different styles,” said Burns.

Burns started the project on Oct. 10 and finished the art on Oct. 19.  It took him three days to draw the basketball and from there he cautiously colored it in.  With the help of junior Dallin Fawcett to set up, Burns completed his project successfully and has received many compliment for his work.

“I think it looks really awesome,” said junior Katelyn English.

The basketball, according to Burns, is expected to fade away within a few weeks.  It has already faded quite a bit as a result of a thunder storm recently.

“He did really well with the blending and the three dimensional look he was going for,” said art teacher Dawn Graham.

This is Burns’s second year to be in art and plans to continue taking classes.  He is currently in Mrs. Graham’s Art III class.  Burns says he would like to continue to do anamorphic art and hopes to be a free lance artist for fun in the future.

“I like art because it’s an escape from doing regular school work,” said Burns. “It allows me to have creative freedom too.”