Optical illusions and other visual oddities.

Our brains are complex and tricky little machines. However, the same abilities that make our brains such powerful tools also make them incredibly easy to fool.

One of my favorite things that was shown to me during my elementary age years was an optical illusion. It was the very famous Rubin Vase (pictured below) which you can see in either two ways - as a vase or as two faces that are facing each other....

I love Op Art and I thought it would be the perfect lesson to teach Art 1's how to use colored pencils. We began by discussing O...

Each of these ambiguous images can be seen as two different things. Confound your brain with these optical illusions, and find out what other people perceive while looking at the same picture.

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