Cool!

Definitely not a photograph, but it's a pretty cool painting ... and the bird pecking the acorn is more obvious than the woman and child, I'd say.

Wow. this is really nice. I would love to have a copy - does anyone know the name of the painting or artist? An original link maybe?

I can only see the bird and the acorn

oh, I see it now, kind of. just the woman

Yes, definitely a painting. I can see both perfectly clear.

You can see man eating her head (in small version).

This clearly is a painting, and I may be going out on a limb here but if I had to guess I would suggest checking on the work of painter Bev Doolittle. Bev Doolittle is a painter from the Pacific Northwest (where she is quite popular--my mother has several) and she has long specialized in paintings that are more than they seem. One, for example, is called "eyes of the forest" that features a frontier ranger on horseback traveling through the woods while rocks, trees, and various shapes all form faces that are watching him. Doolittle is extremely gifted at hiding images into her paintings and creating dual messages or meanings within them. Water reflections are a theme she has used before. I would bet mony this is a Doolittle.

Alex, if you can't see the woman and child--you must be on crack! ;*)

Why is everyone noticing the bird and acorn more clearly. Obviously the artist intended the woman and child to be the subject of the peice. Im almost positive the bird and acorn are merely side products. I just wanted to say that I think there's one gifted artist behind that picture.

Here is a nifty little trick close one eye and look at the painting, it is beyond any doubt a painting, and you will notice the bird and acorn however if you close that eye and look at the paining with the other it obviously becomes a mother and child - It has something to do with the distinctions in the thought processes between each side of the brain - I find the the bird and acorn image is more associated with the leftside of my brain (my right eye) and that the people are more associated with my right brain (my left eye)

The artist Donald Rust does similar style paintings mostly using animals. I have a few of his works, mostly wolves and big cats.

It seems like a Bev Doolitle to me, however it also reminds me of the work of photographer Jerry Ulesman.

the way the color of the rock is and the light and mood of the painting is a little creepy

Has anyone noticed the baby cub right above the childs head?

No, I don't see any baby cub.

ooooo....creepy....

I have searched through all of Bev Doolittle's paintings and can't seem to find it. Does anyone know of anyone else that may have painted this? I'd really love to have a copy!

I find it fascinating. Whoever created this painting is a genius, very creative and ver dark, if I may say so. I love it, wish I knew who the artist was. I will use this in my class.

I see the bear cub. You have to either print out the picture and hold it back a bick but yes, it is kinda sitting on the child's head. Actually it's butt is in the crook of the child's neck and it is facing the mother's elbow. What is even funnier is that it looks like the bear is wearing glasses!

i love bev's drawings i'm 14teen i do see the cub but it kinof look's like a racoon

very cool drawing

i'm 14teen and can see the drawing very clearly of the maiden and the child but the cub look's like a racoon!

I have been looking at a painting,that is quite old. It is called The empty chair.I dont know the artist.It shows a greyhound ,with its head against a vacant chair.If you stare hard and go a bit bos-eyed ,a image of a ghostly mans head, pops up .It is a bit spooky but wonderfull.It was left in a will, to a publican. Under the condition that it stayed in the small,local pub.I would love a copy.It is that good it makes the above look like a dot to dot.And as we have have seen, the above, is a nice painting.

Just left a comment about the greyhound, then took a second look.Just above the childs left arm there is an eye. This could be almost be a shark or snake, swallowing the pair from the rear.

This is most likely Bev Doolittle, who combines many figures in her paintings. It could also be Judy Larson, but my money is on Bev Doolittle. Go to her websites and just compare technique.
Magnificant painter. And in 2006 is still circulating the web as a 'prayer rock'.

"The Empty Chair" is an Irish Wolfhound IF this is the painting you mean.

"The Empty Chair" by Briton Riviere, RA

i saw this picture before, some thought it looked like a person praying

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