Show Me Your Weird Art!

When Death Gives You Lemons... make lemonade!

I think almost my entire gallery could be considered weird, don't you think??

This started out as a study of tree roots growing around some rocks but it ended up someplace else entirely. Great idea for a thread, btw

Its about demons, but not necessarily satanic. Always attracts certaint types of believers who hate and denounce me, and another opposite crowd who love it and invite me to some suspicious activities.

In the Age of Civility... most important of all my works to me.

'Sphynx Cat Vampire' pastel portrait created in the spirit of Halloween with a touch of quirkiness.

I get it James, and I love it.

Thanks Susan, as you said, gotta stick together. It's by far my most popular of earlier work. even sold a half dozen prints locally.

I'm still digesting your "Age of Civility" - I like it but hard to say why (yet)

This is not a usual creation for me, but it is the way it is and what evolved through the creative process.

Maybe it should be Laurie!

I think these fire flames look similar to The Scream by Munch.

Wind in the Trees, one of my all-time faves. Nobody else's, but definitely mine, LOL!

How I felt as a teenager arguing with my parents.

I think this thread is a hit Susan...

Help, let me out of here!

I like playing with fireworks art. I don't even attempt the usual "pretty" symmetrical, over a city or over the water fireworks shots. They take too much work.

This is Satan's reflection.

Phrenia... those colors!

Created in Procreate with iPad and pen with various apps. I have been reading about Sophia and watching videos on this Robot and remain contemplative with many concerns. My interpretation of Sophia's insides in abstract form.

Two red apples in blue mood

This one's brand new. I'm still waiting for other people to tell me how I feel about it.

Kidding! (sorta)

Laurie, I think you were lying to me! --.--

What's weird about apples Tibor?

Raindrops, Umbrellas and the Moon

The Collector is on a mission.

Inspired by the premise of previous epidemics and pandemics, hearing the call "....bring out your dead."

Ouch!!

Susan, I create weird art all the time, just usually without skulls! LOL

OMG Carmen... So.. Much. Awesomeness. Also, "I'm not dead yet!"

Oh! Now I get it Laurie. Duh.

Beauty and the Beast



The story behind this painting:
I was heading to a really fun annual adults only Christmas party, where at some point late in the evening, attendees would choose from a wide variety of wrapped/disguised presents - and open it, or they could "steal" one of the previously chosen/opened gifts. I decided to do a painting that featured the party's host couple. Wrapped in wrapping paper, it clearly looked like a wrapped canvas, as it sat with all the other disguised gifts. One by one, gifts all around my lonely canvas were selected. Some were cool, some thoughtful, random, funny. Many were "stolen". Who wants to pick something that you can tell is a simple canvas. No one!

The host couple had the final selection, and my canvas was the last remaining option, or they could steal one of the previously opened cool gifts. Clearly deciding to take one for the team, they grabbed the canvas, opening it to find their portrait, which was hilarious and the crowd roared with laughter. Could not have been more perfect.

A Galaxy Far, Far, Away

That is an awesome story Robert! Don't you love it when things just work out so perfectly?

I sat next to a bagpipe player on a plane when was going to visit a Scottish friend in Indianapolis. My friend was learning bagpipes and played a Scottish SCA character at ren fairs. I got the bagpiper to play me off the plane all the way to the terminal, you could hear the bagpipes all through the airport. It was awesome and my friend just loved it, but c'mon... what were the chances?

"I Wanna Hold Your Hand Dinosaurs" - my t-rexes (is that the plural of t-rex?) in love...just a little weird maybe? (To be viewed as you sing the Beatles song in your head.)

“Incognito”

A woman disguised as a purple cat dons an extravagant hat and a suavely sophisticated salmon polka dot coat with a matching herringbone collar and confidently heads out into the stripes.

Kind of weird because who would buy and display a print of my vulture portrait?

Where are we going to?
Although the painting is already two years old, I think it is very timely these days ...

A few years ago I was trying Surrealism, this one is weird I think.

i have so much weird stuff, how about something for the holidays?



Which part of a gingerbread man, do you eat first? It's an age old argument and there are no wrong answers.

A common approach is to eat it face first, biting off the head silences the cookie, and keeps the screaming to a minimum. Once eaten, the legs are next, it keeps them from running away, and if they do get away, they won't get far without a head. Then the arms then the torso.

Other's like saving the head for last, while they slowly devour the thing a bit at a time, making it watch. Others like eating the icing, and giving the lifeless corpse to the dog.

But I'm more thorough, I eat it from the inside out. When warm and fresh, its the best thing on earth, a real delicacy a true treat. When it cools down, and rigamortis sets in, its not nearly as good. Its also very important that the cookie isn't actually dead, only asleep. After applying Chloroform, you don't need much, pin it down, and keep a watch handy. You don't want it waking up while your doing your thing. Also its important not to knock them out with a blunt instrument, they may break.

They say you are what you eat, and that's very true of this little guy. They eat candy when no one is looking, and their insides are all candy. Everything is edible. And if you buy organic, their meat is both tender and sweet.


----Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Of course "weird" is in the mind of the beholder...

My friend told me that this was the dumbest painting that I ever did. It was also my last original to sell.

 

"Narcissism's gravity: the irresistible pull of a mirror." - Carmen Hathaway

 

I was channeling Salvador, or so I thought at the time....

The third eye is your minds eye, it's located roughly between your eyes and a little higher. The minds eye allows you to see beyond normal sight. Once activated however, you can see the universe. See the interconnecting parts that make up reality, see the future, see into yourself with clarity.

However not everyone has access, and for some its a life long goal to open it up. And sometimes seeing into yourself or seeing others as they are isn't all that great either. So it may not pay to activate it.


----Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

So far, one 'taker'/courtesy call,lol, so yes, it's a weird concept...and isn't scary, and maybe isn't ART!.......weird fun: for me!
Susan, I don't think I 'do' weird ! will go look.........what a great thread!
also: please ignore it,lol ! am taking it down.

“Why The Long Face?”

Out on the desert sands, a curiosity seeker sporting a proliferation of freckles appears from out of the east with a lime green string he’s brought to measure the prodigiously long face of a bumpy fellow traveler who presumably is on his way to or from Easter Island.

Susan, just between you andme, okay?.....This is my 'secret' testimony, very subtle, state of mind evocation, 'telling' as Art does,
my subtle scream! because......this IS where I'm at now..., where I'm at is weird,believe me...there's no going back,
...............alz,dem,vert,and another:I forget,sigh.......beautifully illustrated...of course, it's about 'being different' , omg.

This thread is making me deliriously happy. I have found my tribe, and it is us.

Weird or not? :)

Flight of the Fanciful. Freaky, but fanciful.

More bird love...

 

Wagon Train is my #100/100 artworks created especially for a fun venture — the #Pixels 100 Day Challenge, in which the goal for participating artists was to create one piece of new art a day for 100 days.

Here, my happy-go-lucky Bot assistant has helped me dismantle the virtual exhibit and we're off on our next adventure.

My 100 creations included 2D & 3D digital originals, traditional acrylic paintings, and videos.

 

I don't have anything weird, but I love this thread!

Naughty and weird, Little Red Riding Hood grows up to be an exotic dancer surrounded by wolves, that is me being daringly weird.

This is my mom long ago

A Tentacled Fractal!

Happy that you're happy Susan!

Now this guy needs to smile!!

This is a light painting that I digitally altered to these blue and yellow tones, looks like dripping trees - or tripping trees, haha.

 

Something's afoot in this House of Uncommons

 

My Gemini Twins could be called weird to say the least...My moon is in Gemini so I don't need to say much more...LOL

"Crazy Colorful Cow" - weird? maybe, maybe not...crazy and colorful? I think so!

So! It's 'naughty'! So what ! good for a weird laugh..............! a little double entendre to make your day!



An homage to Dave Farrow,RIP, , who always 'saw' the 'possibilities'


Dave Farrow:: "Well, I`ve studied this beauty and I have come to the conclusion that I see a couple of buns or, as you say down under,
a bum. Either way you grab the very highly prized "Beautiful Buns (Bum)" golden anatomically correct award.
My dear, you have an incredibly imaginative mind. l.v.f. awesome creation, totally awesome.''

 

Original design, 3D digital sculpture.
 

Bask in the eloquence of silence.
 

Maybe not all that weird for those who have seen it before, but this is "Cow² (... Squared....)

Lindley, you need to get to work and let your freak fly!

Jessica, your mom bears a resemblance to Sophia Loren with a prettier nose =)

Procession of the Worker Drones

When I get the mood to kinda "get weird(er)", and experiment or try new strange or unusual compositions, I often provide the most convenient subject... myself! I've had a few laughs this way too... especially when it forces me to use the timer or remote control for the shutter release. :)

A special effects image of me pulling my shirt up to reveal an invisible torso while standing on my deck outside my home.

Started as a photo of my son's eye.

Me being pandemic weird



Carmen, I already liked your work, even more with this edge.

 

Rainmakers celebrate the night.
 


 

Susan, Laurie, James — your appreciation's reciprocated + + + !

No Rules, No Fear... and she's coming for you.

So get this, its game night, usually two of my buddies hang out at my house and we play cards and fun.

But tonight was different, this new guy just shows up, following my friends into my house. I tried dropping a hint that I didn't have enough chairs, and he said, no problem I'll stand.

Then he talked non stop all night. Couldn't get the guy to shut up. He ended up cleaning us all out, then left. And I'm like, that's some friend you got there... and they are like, him? I thought he was your friend! We never did figure out who he was.


----Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

I'm not sure this qualifies as weird but it does play with the mind a bit, especially if you try to make sense of it. Are the windows behind but a reflection of the ones in front? Or vice versa? And what were the birds doing in this building anyway? Will that last one escape?

(Original photo is of a drive-through liquor store - and taken on a Sunday morning)

The concept for this is one of my favorites but it's hardly ever gotten any votes in FAA contests. I suspect it's because the effect is very subtle and most people probably miss it because they don't open the image to a large format. Even when they do, they'll probably miss the "moon" close to the earth!

Surrealistic image of grapes growing on the vine... no wait... it's a cluster of planets, moons... or maybe symbolism of our planet, still growing, developing, and maturing.
(One of the grapes is the earth and the closest grape to it is really the moon).

“Moving To The Moon”

A multi-colored liquid dog gathers up his most precious belongings and heads out along a dusty trail for the moon. What an adventure this will be! His long pink tongue waves gently in the spacious surroundings and his small ears poke inquiringly out from under his favorite yellow water bowl that he packed on his head for safe-keeping.

My interpretation of a wild woman :) it is all there..I just hope it is weird enough lol

Boiled Peanuts. In a can. In a store window. Between the Hush Puppies and the She Crab soup mix. Weird. Guess it's a southern thing.

Yes, boiled peanuts are weird. And ick :P

I like your empty cages Nikolyn!

The image itself is weird enough ... but I think the story makes it even goofier ... what can i say ... I was in "a mood" ... heh heh

You’ve been wanting to get away from the civilized world for months .. maybe a year. Maybe longer. And you’ve finally done it … broken away from friends and family and work and those incessant phones and constant deadlines and demands. You and your camera reuniting with nature. With the wildlife you’ve studied so long and love so well … with air and sun … breathing free. Even if it’s just for today. Out in the forest, or is it a pond … or a swamp … or the desert … wherever it is, you’re finally free. Not for long, of course. You’ll go back again. You just needed a break.

But things haven’t turned out the way you expected. The wildlife you’ve witnessed has been scarce and shy. And what promised to be a glorious clear-blue-sky day has deteriorated dramatically. A strange fog has enveloped the landscape … orange and red from the sun … it can’t be sunset yet, can it?

You glance around, not sure of your bearings. Yep. Definitely time to head back. Wherever “back” is ….

As you turn, your eyes catch sight of something you never expected to see.

Hovering over a mist-shrouded pond ... the rare Featheropolous Farcicainimous Flamingus Gloriosus ... long thought to be extinct ... yet here they are!!! Right before your very eyes!!! Blissfully unaware of you ... and happily engaged in their legendary and hauntingly beautiful dance of love ....

Too bad your camera's battery died.

A self-portrait with my hands over my face and my fingers being transparent enough for my eyes to show through.

Socially Distant... don't judge, we've all been there.

Not only weird but disgusting too:



Zombie Woman with nice teeth. Closeup, what else.

A dose of weirdicity!!!

 

Every now and then, there's pause for reflection.

 

My wife created this little beasty. Weird enough I hope!

Kind of Out there but fun!

Don't you hate it when a fly lands on your face, between your eyes, and your hands are full. There are tricks to the trade when this happens, usually starting with an outward exhalation blowing upwards, enough to make your hair move and your nose becomes moist with the hot air that comes out. But its not enough and the fly sits there, rubbing its little hands together, laughing at you... Or you assume it is, its so blurry you can't quite see or hear it.

But its there, like torture, those dirty little feet just sitting on your nose, who knows where its been. Knowing it can't be swat at, it starts to kiss your head. That's right the same dirty mouth that was touching things you don't even want to think about, is now intimately touching your face!

So you get this bright and desperate idea, you'll smash the fly with your own head! It will work, just line yourself up with a post and just one fast hit, smash your head straight into it. The fly is gone, it never saw it coming. You are victorious! Bleeding and a bit delirious, but happy, you got the fly, and everyone will just look at you like your a crazy person. But that doesn't matter because you got it! Congratulations! You are a winner!


----Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

A wall in an old building in New Orleans has circuit breakers, switches and meters, but also a no smoking sign, an occupational license, an American flag, a bell and a sign that says "Please mind the cat, She Bites!"

Weird? Depends on who's looking and one's preconceived notions. Certainly you'll need some imagination but, what is weird anyway?

This was based on a poem: Letter to a Long Lost Lover by Elizabeth Leo. It's a weird poem, out there on the web somewhere.

Created from my photo of some graffiti.

More fantasy than weird I hope

I just see xenobiology sometimes in my abstracts…

“Wild Bore”

A despondent and gloomy individual with small sad green eyes and a glum expression on his deeply crevassed and weathered face peers out at his melancholic world, apparently uninspired by his wild and radiant uncombed hair and beard.

Broken!!

I guess this is my "weirdest" piece. Spiders

 

A dapper dinosaur — Houndstooth Henry's living the life!

 

In a world that is desperately looking for compassion and empathy as the tenets of a new world order, Reimagining can start from the very basics. From being closer to Mother Nature.

More dinosaur weirdness, "Celebrate Your Life"

 

🎵 Buffalo gals
Won't you come out tonight
And dance by the light of the moon. 🎶
 
 :

Great bagpipe story, Susan!

Is this weird enough? A hot rod in faux Picasso style.

Earlier this year I did a set of small multimedia abstracts that I thought were pretty weird but someone liked them enough to buy the whole set.

 

The 17th century Plague Doctor, an iconic relic of the Great Plague.
 

Another that I might classify as simply quirky rather than weird - in fact, at a glance, it looks quite normal. Normal, that is, until you realize that the sky outside is inside . . . as are half of the balloons that are passing by. And the balloons appear to all be held by one person . . . but which side of the wall is he on?

Incredible how many weird creations here and what a talent!

I don't think I have too many if any, and what I have may not qualify for the high level of this thread, but this is one that for me is a little weird. It's a photo I took in Ontario and just applied selective coloring to it.

Which came first... The Triceratops or the egg?
Having some digital fun, combining a couple of photography captures into one image of a Triceratops emerging from a broken eggshell.

I captured a statue of the Triceratops which was at a roadside entrance to a company on Route 40, in northeast Baltimore. I also photographed the broken eggshell and combined the two for this fun version of the dino breaking out of the shell.

I hope this is a little weird... :)

Catrina Bonita in the balcony

Interphone mummy

My cowboy with Joan Crawford lips isn't very popular, I painted it in Nashville when I lived there, as something of a statement on that place. It made me no friends.

OMG, I cannot remember the last time I had this much fun! I LOVE ALL YOU WEIRDOS!!

No. 10. I actually posted this right before Covid, but I often think of quarantined people when I look at it. Maybe it was a premonition, LOL!

 

The ultimate power couple — soaring through life together

 

This was a commission of a strange but real house.

A strange display of some huge spherical clay pots in a field in Spain, creating a surrealistic like image of open mouths crying: "Feed Me" - or at least this was my perception of this scene - not something you see everyday :)

Anyone have some aspirin?

  

Once in vogue
These sculptures go rogue.
They're on the lam
From museums they scram. — Carmen Hathaway 2021
 
 

I still feel stuck, but less stuck.

Something that I found really weird, was to see the Statue of Liberty in Las Vegas (about 3 months ago) with a mask on it, reading "Vegas Safely" Uhh! :)

I painted this at the very beginning of the shut down -- furious, there was red paint everywhere. Alternate title: Murder Possum

Night Falling and it might be cause for concern.

 

A young man in military service.
The expression in his eyes speaks volumes.

 

The Unkeepable Secret because frankly, if I come across this I am telling EVERYBODY.

Delicate Contemplation. "Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.''--Anonymous

He, he, I found some more... a little weird, a little funny, and some a little creepy :)

Dancing in the moonlight...

Wall face

Alien Butterfly

Smoke forms weird stuff for those who can see it.

My 'answer' to a contest asking for a selfie in the style of fav artist.........and b/c I was feeling weird, this!! came to me. Guess I AM WEIRD !

Tree man

 

The enigmatic Sir Real Lionfish the First makes his debut.

 

“One-Eyed Jack”

Playing cards with Jack might prove to be something of a winning proposition, judging by the lucky twinkle in his eye and the smirky air of confidence in his cheeky countenance. Dressed in the height of fashion in a double-sided sport coat decorated with hearts, spades, clubs, and diamonds, and sporting ruffled sleeves with white dots on a stunning black background and red and white curved stripes, he holds up the purple flower of trickery in preparation for his next big game.

Spooky display of candy skulls made from marzipan and very colorful, with glowing eyes and lit from behind.

 

Hannah's triumph — emerging from darkness into light once again.

 

Dia De Los Muertos Spooky Candy Catrina Bride

 

A contemporary view of the Tragedy-Comedy theme, in
original design, 3D digitally modeled Indigenous face masks.

I'm a member of the Abenaki First Nation, Odanak, Quebec.
 

Super great thread, Susan ... really soo enjoying everyone's posts!!! Big fun!!!

How I felt this past holiday season! ughhhhhh....I know this year will be better!!! :)

I was hoping this would be hopelessly out-of-date by now . . . unfortunately it's not.
Identical twin brothers sit side by side on a bench, one wearing a mask, the other not. Their expressions say it all.

Close up on a Canadian totem pole part of the native culture in Ottawa, Ontario and Quebec area of Canada. It represents a strange face of a creature that looks like coming from another world, apparently not very friendly with it's huge incisors coming our of its mouth. Well, the native people knew and still know much more that we know...
* I painted it and added a background... click on the picture for all the explanations :)



Oh, I didn't know you are a Quebec-er, Carmen. We lived in Quebec for quite a few years, first in Montreal for 3 years, and for other 6 years in Gatineau (Ottawa area), plus traveling through when heading to the Maritimes :)

 
The irresistible temptation to mirror gaze can manifest the unexpected.
 


Yes, Tatiana, that info's in my bio.

Quebec will always be close to my heart. Be it Montreal city proper, or deep in the Laurentians, or the mysteries of Sept-Iles region....pure magic.

This is a self-made plaster of Paris life mask painted with watercolor for realism. I placed the self-likeness mold into a flannel jacket hoodie an stuffed it too resemble a person lying in the bed just for kicks to see how real it could appear.

“Sit-Ups”

This enterprising athlete is combining a balancing act and stretching of the hamstrings and toes with his daily abs-building routine. And he has apparently heard that injury can be avoided by keeping the back straight while doing sit-ups. This may or may not help prevent an overly-large head from inconveniently flopping over.

A humorous concept from the perspective of the cosmos with the focus on Earth, moon and God taking a day off!

There's a cosmic fishing rod with the line going out to a bobber (Earth) floating in a vast cosmic sea. The fishing line continues from the bottom of the earth where it eventually ends, tied to a fishing hook to which the moon is attached as bait.

An unidentified spaceship is coming close to the moon. The ship even resembles a fish. I added subtle elements to help the reference such as opaque water ripples and lighting. Another planet and the sun can also be spotted in the composition.

The Lord deserves a day off but God help us by the time he gets back!

🙂 Eyesight! ✌🏻

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Next Universe Over, my steampunk interpretation of the theoretical quantum physics "many worlds" theory, even though I don't buy it, I am firmly in the Copenhagen Interpretation camp.

I added the needle arm of a turntable to an image of Saturn and it's rings, as if the rings were being played like a phonograph record. I then added various types of musical notes in the place of stars in the black background.

Sometime you have to do weired stuff to create "talking" images

"Lake Durant Totem". What do you see?

There are so many kinds of frogs from all over the world, in many different colors and sizes. So I was truly amazed one day while at a local amusement park, when I looked up and saw a really ... Big Tree Frog.

 

"The weight of history is often measured in silence." — Carmen Hathaway

 

“Broca’s Brain”

A surprised and excited face peers out at the world with an expression of enthusiastic bewilderment, and with his brain all in a tizzy. His enthusiasm is nearly contagious!

From photographs of knots and scars in a Poplar tree trunk, a gnarled Ponderosa Pine root, a sandstone outcrop, and Desert Aloe intertwined with a Spider plant.

Do Cookies Have Feelings?



A little Christmas story :)

Deviant Illusions of the Hivemind. I ain't sayin' nuttin' because it's likely to get me in trouble :x

This is one of my personal favorites and I will probably end up having it printed for my own home. I've entered it in several contests, but it's never done very well. Because it's a composite (roof-top and street scene from an urban building (Omaha), chickens from western Tennessee, grass and flagstones from my own front yard) I have to enter it in "altered" or "anything goes" categories, but the judges invariably think it's a real scene and say it's in the wrong category! I take that as the supreme compliment and remain steadfast in my loyalty to this unlikely barnyard with chickens on lawn growing on the top of a city building. And who knows what the ladder is there for??!!

I captured a photograph of a Supermoon 11-15-16 and added three astronauts, lunar rover, and lunar lander in an amusing, surreal fashion. It's meant to be amusing, as the moon is depicted as tiny in relation to the other objects on it.

Numbers grey

"Game, set, match". (sports, tennis) An expression commonly used at the conclusion of a tennis match to indicate that a competitor has won. (idiomatic, by extension) An expression indicating finality, announcing that a series of events—usually involving some form of rivalry—has reached a conclusion.

Of course, none of my art looks weird - it's all beautiful.
But perhaps I can sneak this one in.

My roommate back in college

A speech bubble image of myself when I was a young boy and my blind date. Before Photoshop, and personal computers, there was the real "cut and paste". I cut out my school picture and pasted it on this still picture from a horror movie.

https://render.fineartamerica.com/images/rendered/social-media/38613496?domainId=1

I've always figured (for those of you who've watched the Planet Earth documentary series) that this behavior was the result of a fungal parasite. Either way... it was amazing when I took the shot, and it still amazes me.

Cyberpunk Geisha, and today's addition to my portfolio.

 

She demanded to manifest late last year — I'm not one to argue.
 

An idle observation: For me the two most interesting threads going on here are this one and the acronyms. Both started by Susan. Thank you

A strange self-portrait with my hands over my face and my eyes, nose, and mouth showing through.

I woke up on a beautiful bed of tulips with white dove hovering over a waterfall. Peaceful. No worries. What a fantastic dream, like I was floating on these colorful, fragrant flowers.
Don't sweat the small stuff. The small stuff can distract us from spiritual peace and connection. As above, so below.

 

Ditto, L A Feldstein re: An idle observation: For me the two most interesting threads going on here are this one and the acronyms. Both started by Susan. Thank you

Thanks + + + Susan. And for your fabulous gift to artistic lexicons everywhere: "weirdnitude".

As my cousin George'd say "Its pretty much official."  

Weirdnitude. Yup.

I got so carried away with my turkey art that finally the bird simply exploded:

“Jackdaws Love My Big Sphinx”

A unflinching and dependable sphinx convenes a panel including a wise, but somewhat childish, multi-antennaed bug and a koala bear with a long pine needle mustache in order to discover what might have become of the jackdaws that were so recently in the vicinity.

From photographs of an Aspen tree trunk, forest mushrooms, leaves & pine needles under Winter ice, Aspen trees in Autumn, and brilliant Aspen leaves with water droplets on them.

Digitally altered water lily... just makes me happy.

Funny, creepy and weird front-yard decor in an antiques store in Mansonville, Quebec, Canada

Dispair in black and white. I did this with a pinhole lens. It's a self-portrait.

Hi Susan! Thanks for asking but I don't know how to go about it here on the discussion forum. Please any guide on how to post my artwork here will be appreciated!

THE OTHER MEANING TO THE WORD- WEIRD
Similar:
uncanny
eerie
unnatural
preternatural
supernatural
unearthly _ Weird = Unique , original :) in my dictionary...
This definition of of many others could find in many dictionary.
So I am glad we are all unique beings and have that genetics in us.Lovely tropic Susan!!!

What weird I found in my work???

I'm just play'n with ya...

A self-portrait image with special effects via Photoshop. I'm leaning on a wooden rail fence and my legs are invisible between the rails.

An unusual bunch of people always meet up together, on the first Monday of every month. Full of fun and interesting stories, everyone gathers around to hear them. They lead full lives, and are full of character.

First up on the far left, we have "The Mustache" - A slender gentleman with a huge bushy mustache, one can assume he grows it like this due to hair loss. He has a flair for high fashion and crazy pants.

Next up is "The Unibrow" - This young man has a boyish face, he has the ability to attract ladies of a similar stature.

We have "Debonair Dan" - A real classy guy at the parties, dresses much nicer than the rest and a real smooth gentleman type.

Then there is "Sloppy Carlos" - Unkempt most of the time, more casual than anything else. He's a heavy drinker, while everyone sips on fine win, he goes for the hard stuff. You will always find him with a glass in one hand.

And lastly we have "The Ringmaster" - He doesn't come here often, its a special occasion when we do get to see him. As he travels with the circus, and only when they are in town, does he come in to stop by. He's easy to recognize, he wears a top hat, a long coat, and always has a bamboo riding crop, just in case he has to tame a lion.

As you can see they are an odd bunch of fellows, and they limit who can join, you need to be special and a bit weird to fit in.


----Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

LA and Carmen, you are most welcome for the threads and the lexicon. Carmen, my favorite word of weirdnitude is actually "spiffage!" Stick with me kid, I got a million of 'em.

Peace, on your artwork's page scroll down until you see the text box entitled "Embed" on the right-hand side. Copy what's in the text box and just paste it into the thread. Voila!

Fish Food!

A surrealistic image as a squirrel sits at the opening of a hollow tree trunk which beckons with a cosmic view of another dimension. A spiral galaxy and surrounding stars seem to offer a portal through time and space.

This is an actual photo taken at night (slightly altered, but not very much). So weird is right!

Friedhof Hohenpeißenberg. Matthäus-Günther-Platz, 82383 Hohenpeißenberg, Germany.

A surrealistic image having to do with reaching higher.

3D stereo X-View and OOF (Out Of Frame) of a fantasy situation involving a mother and daughter escape. Viewing: Gently converge (cross) your eyes and focus on the middle image that appears while ignoring the outside. This method becomes progressively easier with experience.

Now this one is weird, yes?

Perhaps nuclear sunrise would be more appropriate here

Itaipava castle

Selective coloring of a photo I took in Ontario, sometime after Christmas :)

OMG, that is awesome Cyril!

A little tribute to our friends on the front line of old:

A bit dark but I couldn't leave it unseen.

A Venice doll shop with a broken window. The doll cries real tears. Sharp edges of wet cracked glass.

Another one of my faves that isn't anybody else's :P

One more to go...

Well, I like it, Susan. Great tones, excellent interest in the branches, perfect balance in the sections . . .



These two robins went at it for quite some time. The one on the rim of the birdbath never gave up. She stood her ground and scolded every time the other one came, whether to get a drink or to spash around in the water. I suspect it was mom and kid. "Kid", though larger, finally had enough. "Outta here!!"

Thank you Nikolyn, you obviously have a cultured and refined taste in art ;)

Trash in the desert. I was told, from railroad construction.

An alien kid has landed here on earth during the pandemic and asks...What's a nice kid like me doing in a place like this? It seems as though the alien has landed on the wrong planet.

A weird mural in an even weirder neighborhood in the old section and back streets of downtown Las Vegas

My carved stone pony:

Rat Race: The rat is in the bottom center, in profile, one eye looking at you. Pedaling his way to nowhere.

Really enjoying this thread!

 

 Accepting the perilous journey in resolving the dilemma of identity.
 
Cover art, Volume #27-1, 2007 of The Canadian Journal of Native Studies
 



View publication/cover: https://carmenhathaway.com/publications

“A Night On The Town”

Eyes in the back of the head might turn out to be useful in the wee hours of the morning…

Ima sticking with my equine theme, cuz apparently I like my horses odd.

Sorry, maybe too weird?

 

Created in 2009 — one of many explorations in the journey of documenting my grandmother's life for Arcana, a biodrama video commissioned by Platform Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.



Arcana — archived, on my website, after its one-year run at Platform Gallery.

As momentary phenomena become frozen through diligent and repetitive practice, the viewer is left with an epitaph for the possibilities of our condition.

After the party...

Muffler Head. Artist unknown. Kinda weird.

The original image was taken in an abandoned house near Salisbury Maryland. I added some thought provoking effects for added interest and artistic content.

That is so gorgeous I want to show you mine

This is one of mine that is wild. Can't wait to see all the others https://fineartamerica.com/featured/fear-or-wisdom-gurutej-khalsa.html thank you

 

A mysterious observer casts an ominous presence in a tense situation.

 

how do I put my image here not just the link? thank you don't se ujpload button.

@Gurutej Khalsa,
Go to the main image page - copy the URL at the bottom right, go to the discussion thread and paste the URL in the message block. Note: you may edit the post for up to 24 hrs only.

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A fantasy and surreal image of a window in the attic and a strange vision of dark clouds surrounding a bright light with white birds flying towards the light. An open chest symbolizing the past material attachments partially obstructs the view outside. What does it mean? Holding on to the past, the present, life... foreseeing the future, letting go, releasing one's self from the material world... The end, the beginning? Crossing over? A journey into the unknown, a safe passage, symbolism of what's to come? For you?... for someone you love?

Soldiers at Fort Leonard Wood running

I don't specialize in weird but you gotta have some....

 

In and out of shadows, Trickster contemplates his next move.

 

Gurutej, scroll down on your artwork's page and you will see a text box entitled "Embed" on the right. Copy the text in that box and paste it here. That's all there is to it!

Dogbane Leaf Beetle. Please don't tell me that like sea slugs, nobody else thinks he's cute :/

An imaginary pathway into surrealism. Pure fantasy, showing a hollow tree containing a mystical veil of clouds made of light and darkness.

A fashionable woman with Marie Antoinette hairdo, striped blue- white polo shirt and green scarf), graces the pages of an Encyclopedia under the entry dedicated to Paris.

I am running with Ernesto's Marie-Antoinette theme! No Cake for You!

 

Speaking of running ... sometimes a roundabout is the best option.
 

Well, maybe not running, but I can well imagine Marie-Antoinette descending this impossible staircase, her long gown trailing after her.



The well-known staircase at the chateau of Chambord in France's Loire Valley is indeed what is called a double helix. The thing is, though it's two staircases entwined in one, you can't see them both from any single vantage point. So I doubled one photo and combined it with a mirrored version. Voilà!

The end, still life with wiling flower portraying the end of life.

I used an image of a Supermoon I captured 11-15-16 as the base for this imaginative creation incorporating silhouettes and night sky.

The Pages of Life are always turning. Always changing. From one moment or page to the next, we do not know if we will feel light moments or dark moments. I ask for grace during those dark moments knowing they will not last forever.

 
Nothing quite like nearing that finish line.

 

So, do you remember the shower seen from Psycho?

I should not have opened the barrel after all...



Angry female zombie in a barrel. I bet she will crawl out soon...

Digital fantasy image related to spiritualism and beyond the conscious mind.

This is one of my favorite weird pieces I've created.

Who's awake? Da freaks come out at night!

I took a dead tree silhouette captured at Fort Smallwood Park around dusk and added a moon resting between some branches at the top. This photo-based creative art hopefully adds a smile to the viewer.

Streetcar at night.

Your angry brain

Sometimes I feel like creating something different

Laughing alligator

https://render.fineartamerica.com/images/rendered/social-media/37984919?domainId=1

This is yes the battles we fight with eternity, The circles and cycles of life

Group dynamics

Gurutej, please let somebody else post an image before you post another :)

My favorite alien!

The wink of a doll.

Night Red Vision

 
3D digitally modeled original design.
 

 

A rendezvous relinquished, regret is all that remains.

This one was a ton of fun to create. I walked around a building . . . well, not all the way around but across the front which has an inset space and down one side . . . taking photos vertically but at different angles. I did keep my lens the same so the proportions would be at least roughly okay. Since the lighting changed with the angle, I ended up adding a sky and the asphalt when I created the composite.



Crazy architectural collage of an old building in our small Midwestern town, Papillion, Nebraska. I have a wider version that I like more, but I've discovered that extreme panos don't display fully when you use the embed link.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/rons-automotive-2-nikolyn-mcdonald.html

It started out as a moonlit beach, but then, something strange occured!
The Ascension of the Sea Stars

The Sea star scuttles along the bottoms of seas and oceans all around the world. But what if a few of them yearn for more? Perhaps even to ascend to the stars they resemble?

Maybe, ever so often, with the arising of the proper full moon, when the weather and tides are ‘just so’; they climb to the beaches. There, they line up where the sea, sand, and sky meet. As the frothy brine hits the shore, they slip into the bubbles, then the wind whips them aloft…sea creatures, no more. They float up into the heavens to become celestial stars.

Life is beautiful! :)

 

The heart of the matter is always open to interpretation.
 

Laurie, I think that's my favorite of yours yet!

I always thought this one would make an awesome face mask.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/alien-invaders-hugh-warren.html

 
Things are often not what they seem.


 

“April Fool”

Stopping briefly on a large leaf to smell a drooping flower rising from a spiral stem, a carefree clown with one mere arm and no hint of legs prepares to hoist aloft with the help of eight balloons that are neatly anchored to its head between the bumping scallops of a handmade hat. Random half-moons dance about in the colored splotchy clouded sky above a row of tall stem tiny daisies.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/unfinished-water-color-grapes-with-leaves-and-a-naked-fairy-lisa-kaiser.html


I was only painting leaves and grapes. I thought this one was really weird.

My tiger took a weird turn on the way to realism!😝

This is my weirdest I suppose. A good friend of ours who loves theatre and character depiction of any kind has been a model for me many times. This day he put on a large rubber Joker mask, inside out and backwards.
I photographed him in our yard and did a bit of work on him in photoshop to complete the monster transition including altering the face, fingernails, teeth and purple forked tongue. He loves it.

I captured a hollow tree trunk at Killens Pond State Park in Delaware, and digitally added the church console organ I captured at St. Michael's Christ Church to the hollow opening to the tree trunk. I also added Lon Chaney Sr's Phantom Of The Opera silent movie character as if he's playing the organ, his disfigured face turned towards us with one arm raised in a passionate gesture. This description might be more frightening had the character been life-size, but he and the organ were shrunk down to fit in the hollow opening of the tree.

You knew my purple rhino had to put in an appearance eventually, amirite?

''Space is the breath of art.''--Paul Klee


Thank you Susan for your comment on "Test Driving the Money Buttons''

 

The art of clarity: face to face, in depth conversation.

Dancing with the wind. This one was in a gallery show.

Even pelicans need to take baths. This guy is perched on the edge of a tub full of hot water - someone has even started the wave action for him. But he just can't decide whether to jump in or not.

Cool stuff all. Here's a weird one.

Four wide-angle vertically formatted images were digitally stitched together to produce this single view of a hollow tree trunk.

On my hike around Killens Pond State Park, I saw many hollow tree bases and my imagination started churning. In my mind's eye, I saw a miniature lagoon in this one. I added the water, beach, beach chairs, umbrella, and a couple of ladies enjoying it all. One is sitting on the beach sand close to the waves and the other is on a raft in the water.

The original photos were captured Christmas Eve of 2019 at Killens Pond State Park in Felton, DE.

This one is quite unusual, or weird:

...or a short circuit

A dragon tree

I created this for use on a high school play poster. The young woman was a student, playing the lead role, and the old Victorian house was less than a mile from the school. We had a great time trying different angles and looks -- she was very comfortable as a model and luckily had way more ideas than I did for possible poses.

A night of boozing

Charged with trying to keep the girls in line:

Colorful Clown in Antique Store Window

 
A moment of meditation.

 

Rush Hour

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/sun-reflection-in-pool-cynthia-guinn.html

I like weird art 😱

Check this one out on a pleated Face Mask and using the 3D icon 😳



edit: oops, apologies ☺️

 

A decision to be made — one way, or the other.

 




Featured in my 2011 Carte Blanche solo exhibit at the Abenaki Museum, Odanak First Nation, Quebec

Douglas, Chuck and Cyril, one at a time please! Read the OP.

Zebras snooging =)

How i feel after posting 2 back to back, apologies Susan.

Flying in from a stormy sky, the Mighty Masks are on a mission to save the world, along with the rubber gloves, their trusty sidekicks. Will they succeed in holding back the danger till more help arrives? Only time – and science – will tell! :-) Digitally edited photograph.

 

Duties as assigned, deployed in the hive.

I did this in Art class in Highschool!!. we were supposed to combine two animals to make one. i'm not sure what animals I chose?

i tried to attach a photo but there is nowhere to do it?

Primordial Seafood Bisque! Yum, amirite? :P

Ann, scroll down your artwork's page until you see "Embed" on the right. Copy what is in the text box and paste it here.

“Hallucina-Jim”

A wild vision of imaginary faces emanates from an alarmed seated figure with crazy wind-swept hair.

 

Pause for thought, on reflection.

 

As the summer sun rises over the city, light inches its way around the skyscrapers, inserting color in places that had been darkness. Along the river which abuts the tall buildings, mists fur and blur the still-dark shoreline. Bundles of clouds benevolently try to mask and alleviate the sweltering heat, but only succeed in creating additional levels of humidity. The humans who live in the melting city drag themselves awake, chug coffee, and bleary-eyed, head out into the already suffocating morning. On a day like this, if they greet each other at all, it's with the time worn phrase ... "It's gonna be a hot one."

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Susan, I can't tell you how much I'm enjoying this thread, and thank you for the idea!! Most of my "stuff" is traditional-ish ... but every now and then something comes over me, and what I create comes from who knows where ... or why!!!! It's gratifying (?) ... fun (?) ... comforting (?) to see that i'm not the only one who occasionally tiptoes outside of the box!!!

 

Reflections are illusory at best.

 

I feel ya Lois! I pretty much just try to avoid the box. I'm more the tetrahedron type ;)

The Samurai and the Dragons

 

For the record: DNA gone awry.

 

While hiking around Weinberg park in Pasadena Maryland, I came across this doll stuck on a tree overgrown with vines. The undeveloped park was once a waterfront community of homes facing Rock Creek and the Patapsco river. The homes are gone now... just the land left with only a few hints of it's history remaining. I added some subtle textures to enhance the mood of the subject and since the background was white, I added a white vignette to compliment it. I also converted the image to grayscale to further accentuate the weirdness of the discovery.

Haeckel's Lizards in 3-D

This is a 3D Stereo Crossview of a fractal-based and digitally manipulated fantasy image of a mechanized world. The surrealistic rendering and manipulation conveys a metallic appearance.

To view... have the entire side-by-side crossview within view. Then, gently converge (cross) your eyes and focus on the middle image that appears while ignoring the outside. Not everyone is successful with this method but if you are, it becomes easier each time and eventually second nature to view the format with depth.

The main advantages of the 3D stereo crossview format is, no head-wear needed, full color, and no ghosting.

Beautiful boy in a beautiful skirt, dancing in jubilee.

I don't think this is a carbon-based life form.

My unpopular opinion is that I just love men in skirts, no matter what their orientation. The Scottish were right all along.

Bored in school -- college doodles

My husband and daughter and I were driven by my son to the Boston Airport Hilton after Christmas in 2019 because there was an ice storm coming in the morning and we didn't know if we would be able to get to the airport. I took this shot out the window with the airport on the left, the harbor on the right, and a reflection of a hotel room lamp in the window. For some reason, I really like this image:

She must hurry to get to the portal before the gate closes. The clocks are ticking. She walks along the pathway hesitantly not knowing what to expect when she arrives at the portal, but she knows she must get there quickly as Earth's Atmosphere is no longer habitable.

I’m with you Susan, men look good in skirts.

As I mentioned in the beginning of this thread, I think you've got a hit on your hands Susan! That in itself should be very gratifying and help mellow your existential crisis! You've opened the door for the weirdest! Bravo! There are so many wonderful examples of weird that I am finding it increasingly difficult to keep up! I thought some of my stuff was weird, now I think I'm not even in the running! But I love it.

Triangulation is often not very fun.

I had the special joy of being the one who introduced my little granddaughter to the world of roller coasters and Ferris wheels. She went with us to the carnival at a local celebration and talked me in to going on these rides with her. Normally I'm not that fond of heights nor do I get my thrills from being scared silly only to realize I survived, but someone had to go and I was pretty much it. Must admit I had more fun than I'd expected to - much more; and most of the pleasure came from seeing her amazement and joy and being part of the experience with her.

👋 Hello Earthlings

My rare Persian Petal Cat. Coordinates with my Rare Purple Rhino.

Working Late

Circle framed Old Town skyline of Warsaw city in Poland as seen from unique perspective of big, empty water pipe.

I have no more art to contribute for the moment, but I'm getting a kick out of this thread!

I made a copy of a painting and then I cut it apart and re-copied it.

Another form of scrambled eggs!

This piece started out as an abstract in Art Set and evolved into my memories of the beach when I was a child.

 

Solutions sometimes come through in dreams.

 

I am loving these. Excellent and entertaining. Take a walk on the weird side.

An OOF (Out Of Frame), also known as OOB (Out Of Bounds) image of the photographer being dangled outside the picture frame. The giant hand protrudes from the Baltimore Museum of Modern Art at Federal Hill in Baltimore, Maryland.

 

A playful matter of balance.

 

My take on Medusa :)

Besides the current title, "No Sense of Style", I also considered "No Head for Fashion" for this quirky shadow image. The mannequin stood in front of a corrugated metal building so originally, and I took the photo in midday sun so I had strong shadows that created horizontal lines. I decided to replace them with a white background for more impact.

A speech bubble image of a Robin pulling up a worm from the ground and a thought bubble from each creature revealing a quirky twist. Taken in Pasadena, Maryland.

This is pretty weird. It is painted on a piece of wood.

A "color select" version of "The Gloves Are Off" with one red glove among all black and white.

"I will eat your brainnnnn!"

"Okay, but first, let me take a selfie."



Hungry Zombie Woman

Humorously inspired by Italian fashion magazines of the 60’s and 70’s, a comical look at fashion and buying a little white dress. Collage using paper, magazines and old books.

My very thoughtful cow.

Um, screwing around

“Blue Light Special On Couch Nine”

A skinny multi-tasking Siamese cat on a green overstuffed couch-chair with decorative snowflakes works on disentangling a string of blue holiday lights while he winds up some red ribbon with his front paws and judiciously scratches the furniture with the back ones.

A surrealistic photo composition with images from Merida Mexico, illustrating the text: "I hear it in the deep heart's core" from "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," by W.B. Yeats.

Susan, your cow clearly had too much weed.

"Braiinnnnn?"



Zombie horror fun - undead woman in a shop buying vegetables.

Mayan mask made of abalone shells...

Aztec Pattern With Seamless Hieroglyphic Symbol Tribal

I have finally run out of 'weird', but like previously stated by others, this is just so much fun!

When a little ghost trick-or-treats, he doesn't come to the door and knock or ring the bell. He flies up to the window - preferably an attic window that is cracked and broken like this one. There the resident adults welcome him and drop whatever it is that ghosts consider a treat into his outstretched sack.

And you thought the Portuguese Man of War was the stuff of nightmares? As if.

@Mike Smale - Nice title. I was thinking possibly, "Knuckle Sandwich". I wouldn't eat it though... It's got nails in it! ;)

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A fantasy image (well, maybe not so much anymore) of silhouetted trees and thick low cloud cover with a UFO emerging and emitting beams of light downward through the clouds towards the ground.

The UFO and light beams were added digitally into the image I had previously captured.

"Haunted"

A spirit inhabits the side of an old railroad car.

“The Summer We Went To Blue Tree”

Lyrically blue wood grain silhouettes of Ponderosa Pine trees abstractly flailing about in front of a warm sunny backdrop with large yellow and orange speckles rounding the perimeters of obscurely colored multiple suns.

From photographs of a hand-painted vinyl record and dead and fallen Ponderosa Pines trees in the Jemez Mountains, northern New Mexico.

Such great images! I'm enjoying this thread. I don't think I have any "normal" art!




shapeshifter fantasy painting

 

Taking the high road: Absolution

 

Imaginary look at a young Mozart.

Ernesto Beckford: I have to admit that I don't know what a "FU attitude" is but your portrait looks like a woman's portrait... am I missing something?

Capricorn Zodiac Art

Thank you Tatiana. I appreciate the feedback.

Pouncival. This one is apparently very popular... on Alibaba :P

A sci-fi, fantasy image of a small artificial wormhole. A human test is being conducted by inserting a portion of an arm.

Almost dark

Loving this thread Susan!!
I most often peer in and enjoy from the outskirts, but thought I'd join in this time :-)

Heart Attack Grill Las Vegas, the only restaurant where you have to wear hospital gowns

This is very large and is going to probably be a very hard sale, if I can even find a place to display it. Some galleries don't want nudes, and some galleries don't want large art.

This one has to come with a danger warning to keep it away from small children.

Did you take the challenge Tatiana, and if so did you win or lose?

Before you judge my life, my past or my character. walk in my shoes, walk the path I have traveled, live my sorrow, my doubts, my fear, my pain and my laughter.

A self-portrait image with a special effect.

@ Susan:

"Did you take the challenge Tatiana, and if so did you win or lose?"

What Challenge???

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At the Hackberry General Store, Arizona - the Native American woman is not real :)

unusual fantasy dragon painting

It started as a relaxing day at the beach...

A modern woman, wearing bracelets and a French beret, sits at her desk on a Sunday morning, wondering what awaits in the week ahead.

Trapped (again)

Tatiana, the one at the Heart Attack Grill!

Get Your Cheesecake Here! Just posted, because one can never have too much weird in their portfolio.



LOL, looks like she's keeping me down with her stiletto! Not gonna share her spotlight, the hussy.

Susan, the "Heart Attack Grill" was not a challenge...

You can read about my experience at that place here, with more photos :) https://vegasgreatattractions.com/heart-attack-grill-downtown-las-vegas-a-cool-satire-to-unhealthy-foods/

Bobby Soxer girl on Route 66, Arizona at the Hackberry General Store. I think that she really looks weird...