What do you see?
Hi there, Clarity crafters, Stuart here. It’s Tuesday.
Hands up. Who likes a good optical illusion? I have to say, I love to see all those freaky, eye-meltingly mind-confusing visual illusions that do the rounds on social media every so often. I do find it fascinating how visuals can work and I love to see an image appear to be moving that is definitely not moving. The colours are a bit garish, but I do love being tricked by them. The first two are particularly clever, with a lot of movement going on. Don’t stare too long, though, you might be a bit motion sick… The last one is a little less surreal, and perhaps a little harder to figure out. So, why not let me know in the comments what you can see and what you think the illusion is?
So, why am I harping on about optical illusions? Well, it’s because this week’s YouTube Tuesday is also a bit of an illusion. It’s a really clever parching technique by Barbara Gray that makes Groovi embossing look 3D. It’s really cool and totally worth a watch, simply to admire the technique and the end result even if you think it looks quite tricky. It is a touch tricky, but some things do need that little bit of extra effort to pull off. Having said that – as usual – Barb does make it look incredibly easy and a lot of fun, for sure! Simply click the image below to watch the video… Or this link will do, too: https://claritystamp.com/collections/youtube-offers
And don’t forget, there is 20% off everything you need to create the project, and you can add them to your basket from that link, too!
Well, that’s all from me. Do let me know what you think of the illusion, and let me know if you’ve done this project. I’d love to see how others get on with it…
Clarity Matters. It really does.
Stuart
I can see the images of 2 women – one older wearing a hood and the other young and glamorous with a feather in her hair
I can see an old woman wearing a hat and a young glamorous lady with a neck. I studied that image in psychology has part of my Occupational Therapy course many moons ago.
I can see both the ladies in the third picture.
I love both the optical illusions particularly the second one. Aren’t they amazing. Thanks for sharing. X
See what you mean about motion sickness with the two ‘moving’ images – fascinating though. the old crone and the elegant lady image is one I’m familiar with. Oddly enough I watched this video on YouTube very recently and decided to have a go – what a coincidence! Awaiting the plate I needed to add to my collection.
Hi Stuart, How weird is that first one – movement in a static picture!
The second one I see a ball rotating on a sort of “funnel-ish” thing
The third I see a young woman wearing a fur stole and a veil with a feather coming out of it.
The first one left me dizzy, the second left me cold, the third I saw both a young girl with a necklace and a fur coat, and an old hag with a big nose. My eyes are still recovering from the first one.
Love making 3D looking projects, the Groovi plates make it so easy.
Stay safe 🍒
Great optical illusions – it’s amazing how the brain tricks you (or is tricked?). Oddly, I could only see the movement in the first image when I wasn’t looking right at it – as if it was surreptitiously spinning and I could only catch the movement out of the corner of my eye.
With the second one, well, that’s definitely in three layers, are you sure you didn’t load a video?!
The beautiful lady/hag is a classic – to begin with, the belle was immediately obvious but, once the old lady appeared, they switched back and forth. Does it say something about your personality, which you see first?
I know this third one works in print – do you know whether the other two are equally magical on paper, or do they need to be viewed on screen?
Hi Dawn, I do think you could print them all out and they would work fine. Thet second one, especially, is relying on the contrast of black and white lines, the warped perspective and the shadow – easily enough replicated in print 🙂