I see a dragon

Posted on July 20, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Clouds, Colours, Hill, Life, Memory, Pareidolia, Red, shadow, Sunny, Sunset, Time, topLeave a comment

That old Pareidolia kicking in again.

The dragons head upper left, then a thin neck and body, looking a bit like a viking boat. Finally a great sail of a wing catching the glow from the setting sun.

This was last Monday and it lingered on my phone until I found it today.

I don’t see sunsets very often because I’m on the wrong side of the hill. This was at the top of our hill and there are still buildings and trees in the way and as the sun drifts northwest as it sets in the summer there is more vegetation in the way.

Blue

Posted on July 11, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on board, Art, Face, Life, Memory, mysterious, Mystery Plays, Painting, PareidoliaLeave a comment

Feeling blue.

Can you see a face,…?

Head tilted to the left, a streak of light catching the nose?

My friend saw it first, where I had roughly painted the scenery for the show. Random brush strokes that created a male face…

My hubby’s face? Not scary, good to feel I had unconsciously incorporated him! He was an enthusiastic actor in the shows. Glad he was there apparently in spirit. X

The canopy looks like a rabbit.

Posted on April 17, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, bare branches, Letters, Library, Life, Pareidolia, rabbit ears, shadow puppets, Sign, y1 Comment

I was sitting in the library and looked out the window. I noticed the trees were still bare. Then I saw the shape of the canopy over the front door. It suddenly looked like a rabbits head. The letter Y at the end of library looks like a rabbits ears. I thought back to making shadow puppets on the wall, it’s so strange, a bit of Pareidolia?

Writing group

Posted on February 25, 2025 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Creative, Design, Iife, off cuts, Paper, Pareidolia, prompts, rorschach, Words, WritingLeave a comment

I joined a small writing group today. There will be writing prompts which I might post here. Like a pile of off cuts on a table, I think I need to put the bits of paper together to create a coherent image. It is like seeing a Rorschach test and being able to tell a narrative based on those ink blots. I might try and see what else I can do with this? I can see faces and a bird and animals in this image. Pareidolia again.

What do you see?

Posted on February 10, 2025February 10, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Fairy, fairy swinging, Imagination, Pareidolia, Pattern recognition, Random, spill, Wings3 Comments

Today at choir someone had spilt water on the floor. Like a Rorschach test, looking at ink blots, I saw the figure of a fairy swinging. Both legs bent at the knee, wearing pointed toe boots, sitting forward on a swing, butterfly wings behind and a little pixie hat on her head. If I can I will try and draw on top of the image to see how much more I can make it look like a fairy. This is an example of Pareidolia, where the mind sees images from random patterns.

Insect faces?

Posted on August 10, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Design, Fun, Hydrangea, incollage app, Life, Pareidolia, PhotographyLeave a comment

Hydrangea duplicated, green faces seem to emerge from the background of bricks. Pareidolia at large.

Silver birch face

Posted on April 27, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged bark, Close up, Face, Painting ideas, Pareidolia, Pattern, Photo, Silver birch, TreesLeave a comment

My friend took this photo for me as the camera on my phone keeps glitching. I’m part way through painting a green woman for someone and I want the background behind her to be trees.

There are silver birches in the grounds of the community centre where I attend our art group so we went out and I chose the trees I wanted pictures of. It helps to see the shapes of their trunks and branches instead of trying to imagine them. The details of the bark are fascinating and I hope to try and reproduce the patterns.

I’ll post a photo of the work in progress later but I want to tidy it up a bit first, it’s a bit like a mediaeval illustration at the moment, I need to make it more subtle.

I think there’s a bit of Pareidolia going on here as I can see a face in the tree bark.

Spooky lights

Posted on February 17, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Eyes, Fun, Imagination, Life, Lights, Mouth, Pareidolia, Pattern, Pink, seeing things, TheatreLeave a comment

I saw this at tonight’s performance and it made me chuckle. The way the lights are set up looks like eyes and a mouth. The shadow above like a set of long wolf like ears! The pinkness is really dramatic.

I have always seen faces and patterns in everyday shapes. Like paintings of flowers that look like lions to me, or the spindly abstract pattern of tree branches turning into a galloping horse. It’s a phenomenon called Pareidolia.

This could also be a riotous robot, a frankenstein style monster, or a dancing ghost, see what I mean?

Faces in plants

Posted on September 1, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Collage, Faces, Ferns, Gardening, Green, Life, Memory, Pareidolia, Photo, wallpaper6 Comments

I can almost see a koala bear in this collaged photo. Above and below that I can see eyes on stalks. It’s called Pareidolia, and it’s something I seem to do all the time.. I saw patterns in wallpaper when I was young. Roses became teddy bears somehow. Green leaves became fairies. I could see faces in bowls of fruit. I think I’m weird!

Can you see a face and body?

Posted on June 24, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Camouflage, constellations, Faces, Interest, Life, Objects, Pareidolia, Sight, Sky, Stars, Thinking, Vision4 Comments

If you see the face you might be experiencing Pareidolia. It’s one of my favourite things, I love finding faces or animals in or on other objects.

That’s what people did with the stars in the skies… They could see people or creatures and called them constellations. Some constellations are the basis of the signs of the Zodiac. Different civilisations had different myths and legends, so the combinations of stars creating them will be different depending on what part of the world you live in. Even the moon is seen as a boat when it is viewed from the equator and is waxing or waning, because it looks horizontal, not vertical. And what about the man in the moon? A face seen in the moons surface made up of the different craters and seas on it.

I think Pareidolia is really interesting. I read that it helped early people notice animals that might have been camouflaged without that skill. It’s more redundant now. But still there. So if you see faces in wallpaper or bunches of flowers Pareidolia is happening!

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