In this ambiguous painting by Rob Gonsalves, a young girl is having fun on a tree swing.  As she gets higher and higher, it seems that her feet might touch the moon.  Moving from left to right, can you see where the painting transitions from the girl swinging from a tree under the moonlight to […]

This painting from Mexican artist Octavio Ocampo effectively uses negative space to create two distinct images that occupy the same space.  Do you see a tree and several birds or do you see the face of a woman?  You cannot view them both at the same time, but you can very easily flip-flop between the […]

A man with a lantern emerges from a grouping of pine trees and approaches the edge of a lake.  As he looks down the coastline, the pine trees transform into skyscrapers in the night.  Can you tell where the pine trees end and the skyscrapers begin?  You have to wonder when Rob Gonsalves painted this […]

Is this clown on the tightrope walking upside down or right-side-up?  Without the placement of the moon, you might just assume that the black space in between the buildings is the ground.  But since the moon is there, it almost feels as though you are on the ground looking up toward the tops of the […]

This interesting house has features that make it appear to look like a face.  The two rounded windows on the roof look like eyes and the woodwork located over the window resemble a smiling mouth.  When I saw this pictures, I almost noticed the face before the actual architecture.  I would be curious to know […]

Photographer and Photoshop expert Erik Johansson recently created this work titled Soundscapes.  The “soundwaves” coming from the the old school gramophone morph into trees in the background as they move from left to right.  Two gentlemen in the foreground are carrying a large record toward the antique sound machine.  I might recommend some iTunes gift […]

In this painting by Rob Gonsalves, the scene in the foreground presents an entirely different meaning than the scene in the background.  This type of transition is pretty common in all paintings from Gonsalves.  If you look toward the back of the image, it appears to be an open body of water – maybe even […]