Not what it seems

[tillystar]

When I was a very small child my Mum had this picture on her bedroom wall. It terrified me. I thought it was a horrid scary potato man. I can remember lying too scared to move or even breath because of his horrid old face.

He is facing to the right, with his terrifying cavernous mouth open with the red lolling tongue, he has a deep cleft in his chin and is wearing a small black cap. See him?



Anyone see any other odd things in paintings?

[bixaorellana]

I love the picture and can't see the potato man.

I'm trying to find a particular early renaissance painting to show. I love that period, but this particular picture has a large deep red drapery hanging in the foreground. It seems to enclose some kind of ball -?-

[Deleted]

Maybe this should go in the potato thread...only kidding. Try as I might I can't see the potato man.

[Deleted]

No potato man for me either. Probably it should be seen in semidarkness. In my own bedroom there was a vertical wall heater with the head of a robot monster very visible inside. During the day, he seemed harmless, but at night I just knew he was going to crawl out of that heater and do something bad. The popping and clicking of the gas going on and off during winter nights and the groaning expansion of the metal did not help one bit.

However, I knew that it would not help to inform the authorities (my parents) because such people are never aware of the real dangers of the night.