Today’s optical illusion is another wonderful painting from Mexican artist Octavio Ocampo.   His surreal and metamorphic paintings often can be interpreted in multiple ways.  What do you see first when you look at the image below?  Do you see some flowers and a butterfly or the face of a beautiful woman?  I always see the […]

Octavio Ocampo is one of Mexico’s most prolific artists.  He describes his painting style as “metamorphic”, where the individual components that make up the painting come together to form a larger image.  In the example below titled ‘Ecstasy of the Lilies’, Ocampo has painted a group of white lily flowers that come together to form […]