Charles Bell's Rolls of Canvas

Origin
Charles Bell was one of America's first photorealism artists. His style was to take a picture of an everyday object, (a recurring theme being antique toys), and then painting the object onto a canvas. He described the process as "bringing pictorial beauty and wonder to the mundane".

Effects
When a photograph of an object is placed onto the canvas an exact painted likeness of the object will appear. The painted object will seem to "jump out" of the canvas, becoming a real object.

The canvas has been used to reproduce look-alike objects that must be switched out for actual artifacts.

Collection
Artie collected the canvas from a high school in New York. Apparently Bell's family donated several boxes of his art supplies to the school. One student was about to create a photorealistic reproduction of a picture from National Geographic. Imagine her surprise when an actual rhino appeared in the classroom. The school was quickly evacuated, the rhino donated to the zoo, and the canvas was confiscated by the Warehouse.