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!

Tree spirits

Posted on June 17, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Commission, Faces, Fine Art, Painting acrylic on canvas, Pareidolia, Tree spirits2 Comments

An old commission from a few years ago called tree spirits. Another experimental piece. It is part of my pareidolia, seeing images of faces or animals in objects. The orange, green and purple were used to give it a feeling of dawn or sunset.

Circle

Posted on May 9, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Circles, Drawing, Felt pens, Pareidolia, shower curtain, Sketching2 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was circle. I drew Circles. I used to have a shower curtain showing bubbles, a bit like this… It drove me mad because I kept seeing bubble people like this on it! It was an example of Pareidolia.

I saw a penguin

Posted on April 17, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Filter, Imagination, Pareidolia, Penguin, Photo, Photodirector, TextureLeave a comment

Playing with a photo of a patch of sunlight. As I put it through a filter I saw the shape of a penguin appear! It appears to be albino and looks like it’s wearing a scarf to keep warm. I can’t see feet or flippers… I do like pareidolia (seeing faces or shapes or animals in shapes). Using the filters creates an interesting texture and gives it a shimmering look, a bit like melting ice? Another random post from my strange mind.

Daffodil face

Posted on April 5, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Collage, Daffodils, Flowers, Fun, Ideas, Pareidolia, Playing, Poem, Poetry, RhymeLeave a comment

Just look at me! I’m a daffodil face!

A nose, two eyes, and ears in place?

I could be a skull

Or a monster too

I definitely am yellow

And a little sallow

I wonder what beast

I could be the least

Beautiful flower

Or petals in a bower…

Bad rhymes

Silly times!

Alien sky

Posted on February 26, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 90° turn, Alien, bodies, Faces, Fun, Pareidolia, Photo, street lamps, Symmetry, ViewLeave a comment

Have I posted this before? By twisting an image by 90° and mirroring it you can get some strange effects. The lines on here are Street lamps going off into the distance. The light behind the clouds give it an alien appearance, what sort of atmosphere could it be. I can also see strange figures in the sky. Possibly faces? A bit of pareidolia? Symmetry does odd things….

Cats

Posted on January 10, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged aliens, Art, Cat, Christmas cactus, doorstop, Fun, Mirrored, monsters, Pareidolia, Photography, SymmetryLeave a comment

Alien plants?

Symmetry makes interesting patterns. I took a few photos of my kitchen window ledge a few days ago and then tried using a vertical mirroring to create something different and unusual. Something you wouldn’t see unless it was in a reflection. I always think it’s worth doing this because it can look really alien. This photo has a large cat doorstop in it at the back, a Spanish pot with a tile design pattern and a large, dark pink cactus. But I can see a face, with pink hair and a moustache at the front with dark eyes and nose? The cats could be like conjoined twins, like a Greek mythological monster. And the cactus leaves in the middle seem to show a green face with an open mouth. Why not try this yourself?

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Tag: Pareidolia