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Art is all around us. While you may expect art to come from the talent and genius of a gifted human being, it turns out that the forces of nature are a rival to any of the creative giants that we have produced, and in some cases, even better!
Following on from a previous post, we here at Bored Panda have compiled a list of our favorite artworks created by Mother Nature, those accidental masterpieces that are a serendipitous result of the laws of physics and gravity, and the whims of light, wind and color. Scroll down below to check them out for yourself and take a closer look around you, you never know where accidental art might be hiding!
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#1
Fell Asleep In The Bath. Finger Brains
#2
Art Only Nature Can Create. My Fence This Morning After A Snowy Night On Terschelling, The Netherlands
stellermatt 6 years ago
looks like artic organ pipes, that would play music to chill the soul.
#3
Morning Frost Looks Like It’s Painted
Yvonne Bernal 6 years ago
Just like spectacular sunsets... meant to be enjoyed, but only for a brief moment in time.
#4
In Cute Cat News, My Mom Put Up An Easter Decal On Our Front Door And It Makes Gigi Look Like A Dr. Seuss Character
#5
Oranges Photographed Through The Glass Panes Of A Greenhouse
#6
A Rock Created Bird Shaped Window Art On My Car
#7
Sunset Reflected In A Broken Mirror
Yvonne Bernal 6 years ago
This one actually isn't "accidental art" - Credit should be given to photographer Bing Wright who created a series of images "Broken Mirror/Evening Sky". The prints of the images are very large – 4′ across and 6′ tall. They used to be on display at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York.
#8
I Dropped Some Water, Opened The Table Extension To Dry And A City Landscape With Temples And Pinnacles Appeared
#9
Even The Shadows In Scotland Are Plaid
#10
Something Bumped Against A Wall At Work And Made A Painting Of A Snowy Town
#11
This Colony Of Moss Growing Inside A Bike Seat
#12
Mud Spatters On The Car Window Created An Accidental Monet On My Friend's Outback Road Trip
#13
After I Poured Milk Into My Coffee, I Found Snoopy On The Doghouse Under The Moon
#14
Volcanic Explosion On A Lid
#15
The Swirls On This Log
stellermatt 6 years ago
the lighting of this picture looks like it was taken in autumn, i LOVE autumn, you get some warmth left over from summer, but a hint of the winter to come.
#16
Christmas Lights Under The Snow
#17
A Tree Pattern Inside A Tree
#18
The Snow Has Settled Only On The Outline Of The Bricks On My Friends Driveway
#19
Blue With A Touch Of Yellow. Unstirred Paint
Nadine Ducca 6 years ago
This is beautiful. It looks like those aerial pictures of rivers and deltas.
#20
The Way This Wood Split Looks To Me Like A City Skyline
#21
The Tapestry Above My Bed Made A Pretty Sweet Reflection In My Coffee This Morning
#22
Bark Of A Snow Gum Tree Looks Like A Painting
#23
The Shadow From The Dirt On My Window Looks Like Mountains
#24
This Car Door Looks Like An UFO Above The Forest
#25
My Friend Took A Picture Of Her Cat With A Crappy Cellphone Camera Through A Dirty Window Frame And It Looks Like A Painting
#26
This Aerial Photo Of A Garden Looks Like A Surrealist Painting
#27
The Spilled Ink On My Finger Looks Like A Forrest Fire Have Taken Place
#28
The Frost On My Window Looks Like Birds Flying Off A Pine Tree
#29
Fine Art
#30
Bubbles Seen Through The Top Of The Shampoo Bottle
#31
Was Coloring Eggs With My Niece When She Accidentally Made A Dragon Egg
#32
This Coffee Stain That Resembles A Map On The Inside Of My Cup
#33
The Camera Focused On The Reflection Of The Tree Instead Of The Watch
#34
My Dog's Face Looks Like A Van Gogh Painting
#35
Centrifugal Force Creates A Perfect Work Of Art
#36
My Coworker Spilled Wine In The Office So I Turned It Into A Spazzy Cat, He Loved It
#37
Plum Crazy (Phg) Chrysler. Unstirred Paint
#38
Found This Smeared Paint On The Window Of A Vacant Store That Looks Like A Classical Chinese Watercolour Painting Of A Horse
#39
The Ice Pattern Outside Of My House Looks Like A Wolf Spirit
#40
Algae On A Chinese Lake Looks Like An Impressionist Painting
#41
The Way This Ice Froze Looks Like A Topographic Map
#42
From The Engine Room At Dusk
#43
This Van, Covered In Dirty Snow, Looks Like A Bob Ross Canvas
M O'Connell 6 years ago
Ok, for today's painting we're going to need Titanium White, Cad. Yellow, and Van Dyke Brown. First, take your 2-inch brush with Titanium White and lets put a happy little Chevrolet right here in the middle.
#44
This Dying Leaf Looks Like It's Pixelating
#45
The Underside Of My Yogurt Lid Looks Like A Haunted Graveyard
Final score:
153points
#46
I Cracked My Screen Protector And It Created A Beautiful Piece Of Landscape Art
#47
The Way My Lightbulb Burned Out Looks Like Art
#48
This Window Looks Like A Painting
#49
My Friend's Dirty Car Looks Like A Painting
#50
My Coffee Came Out Looking Like A Bride
#51
The Spray Pattern On This Wall From A Plumbing Exaust
#52
Drone Photo Directly Above Bowls Club. Looks Like A Surreal Painting
#53
Purple Swirl. Unstirred Paint
stellermatt 6 years ago
maybe our sky is just an unstirred pot of paint and one day all will be mixed and we'll then be able to see the real painting that is our life?
#54
The Pattern Formed By These Tables And Their Shadows
#55
A Face Was Scuffed Into My Car After A Minor Car Accident
#56
Took This With My Phone Through My Windshield While Stopped At A Light
#57
My Photo Of A Frozen Waterfall. Looks Like A Watercolor Painting
#58
Oil World
#59
The Beautiful Brain. Unstirred Paint
#60
The Way The Dye Fell Through This Solvent I Was Making
#61
A Flurry Of Cherry Blossom Petals
#62
The Way This Window Turned To Look Like A Painting. Florence, Italy
#63
The Sunrise Shining Off The Icy Roof Of My Car
#64
Cool Ice Pattern On My Wheel After Driving Through Wet Snow
#65
Paint Tint Came Out As An Apple
#66
A Shattered Window
#67
Dropped My Phone, It Bounced Off The Trail And 20 Feet Down The Side Hill Through The Vegetation. It Was On A Camera Timer
#68
Yesterday I Droped My Waterbottle. This Is The Pattern It Made While Rolling Away
#69
I Was Melting Down Some Chocolate At School And Noticed This Little Bird And Tree Design On My Spatula
#70
Yin Yang In A Water Drop
#71
This Van That Was Painted Over The Rust To Make Mountains
#72
Dried Up Salt Water Turned Into Squares
#73
This Unfiltered Picture I Took Looks Like An Oil Painting Because Of The Rain On The Window
#75
Tire Mark On Highway Looks Like Hummingbird
#76
I Dropped A Box Of Spaghetti On The Ground And Accidentally Graduated From Art School
#77
Slushy Roads + Centrifugal Force = Art
#78
My Coffee Surprised Me With A Painting This Morning
#79
This Almost Symmetrical Pattern Someone Left In Our Driveway This Morning
#80
Pollen That Formed On The Water Looks Like Artwork
#81
The Tear-Out On This Veneer Looks Like A City Skyline
#82
The Siracha I Put On My Egg Accidentally Looks Like Someone Hugging The Sun
#83
This Cat Looks Pretty Cool Through The Glass Of One Of Our Windows Like Some Sorta Painting
#84
My Wife Looks Like She Is Walking Inside A Painting. I Took This With Her iPhone
#85
This Is What Paint Looks Like Before It Gets Shaken
#86
My Friend's Nail Polish Chipped To Look Like An Old Fisherman
#87
Old Paint On A Rusted Container
Final score:
64points
#88
My Dirty Work Pants Left A Very Clear Imprint On This Chair
#89
The Algae On My Pontoon Boat Looks Like A Pretty Good Painting
#90
Pattern Formed From A Table And Melting Snow
#91
The Opening In This Wall Looks Like A Piece Of Art Hanging On It
#92
This Protein Shake Stain Looks Like An Alien
#93
This Stepping Stone Looks Like A Painting Of Misty Mountains
#94
This Clock In A Server Room Is Accidental Modern Art
#95
The Foam In My Beer Looks Like A Smiling Dog
#96
There's A Creepy Smiley Face In My Coffee
#97
Accidental Ink Splodge Looks Like A Flying Pterodactyl
#98
Wanted To See What A Plant Would Look Like Before I Hung It. Forgot To Get Out Of The Way. Accidental Surrealism
I Love My Dog 6 years ago
It reminds me of the painting The Son of Man, a 1946 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte.
#99
The Street Water Made A Tree In The Snow Of The Parking Lot
#100
My Cracked Fire Glass Looks Like A Thunderstorm Painting
Siddharth Rath 6 years ago
A lake, a small hill, a forest on fire, a thunderstorm, a nuclear reactor in the lake...tell me if I missed something out...
#101
My Friend's Coffee Grounds Look Like An Abstract Forest Painting
Robert Morson 6 years ago
Not that abstract, actually. It's like looking into a wooded valley with two large, carved stone heads.
#102
The Bottom Of My Eraser Looks Like A Painting Of Birds In Front Of A Row Of Trees
#103
This Window Looks Like A Painting
#104
Crazy Stairs Look Like A M.C. Escher Painting, Not Sure Why Anybody Would Build Like This
#105
I Was Cleaning The Flat Top Grill At My Work And Suddenly A Canvas Of A Forest On The Lakeside
Susann Campbell 6 years ago
I have cleaned these grills during working hours and some of the pictures that appear are just unbelievable. No cell phones back then to take all those different pretty pictures that would make you stop and wanted to share but with who? Thank you for bringing back those memories.
#106
Saw This At Star Wars Celebration Parking Lot. That's No Accident
#107
Washed My Daughters Comforter. This Is How It Ended Up When The Cycle Was Done
#109
Looks Like An Impressionist Painting
Susann Campbell 6 years ago
Jack Frost work another painting for humans to enjoy while being cold.
#110
My Sister's Dog Fell Asleep Under The Misters
#111
This Melted Exit Sign Which Looks Like An Art Project
#112
I Put Jello In The Freezer To Set It Quickly And Ended Up With This Awesome Pattern
#113
The Way The Rain Made This Paint Dry
#114
I Accidentally Painted A Snow Covered Forest With My Router Shavings
#115
The Residue Of Black Paint Mixed With My White Paint And Made A Little Forest
#116
Ink Spilled Onto My Workbench, Tiny Swan Was Born
#117
This Photo My Uncle Took Of A Sunset Looks Like A Japanese Painting
#118
The Icy Roof Of My Car Looked Like A Painting This Morning
#119
Who Knew Paint Had A Brain?
#120
Art Or Window Washing
#121
This Pattern In The Water From Boiling Eggs
#122
I Accidentally Painted A Horse With My Foot While Waiting For The Bus
#123
My 8 Month Old's Hair Is Always In A Perfect Swirl That Reminds Me Of A Van Gogh Painting
#124
The Fruit Bowl At My Work Fell Over And Now It Looks Like A Renaissance Painting
#125
Chopped A Red Cabbage And Found This Pattern
#126
I Accidentally Put Too Much Paint On The Brush So I Pinched It On A Tissue And This Butterfly Emerged
#127
Unintentional Modern Art
#128
Geological Map Of The Moon - Looks Like Modern Art
#129
Homemade Brew
#130
Police Officer Trying To Save American Flag During Hurricane Harvey Looks Like A Painting
#131
My Bathroom Window Looks Like An Abstract Painting Every Morning
#132
My Roommate Cooked A Cat Shaped Pizza, The Parchment Paper He Cooked It On Now Looks Like A Cave Painting Of A Cat
#133
This Spiral My Wife's Nail Polish Made When It Dropped And Broke
#134
Space. Unstirred Paint
#135
This Shadow Looks Like Decal Art On A Car
#136
This Orange Juice Dried And Cracked Into A Pretty Pattern
#137
I Left My Transition-Lensed Glasses Next To A Window Screen And The Sun Left A Checkerboard Pattern On The Lens
#138
The Way My Friend’s Window Splintered Was As Though Two Atoms Were Cataclysmically Colliding
#139
Was Painting A Project When The Black And White Paint Mixed And Made This Design
#140
Bob Ross Broke My Screen
#141
After Dumping Out The Kid’s Sidewalk Paint
Final score:
27points
#143
Intergalactic Unstirred Paint
#144
This Sunset Looks Like A Painting On The Wall
#145
This Picture I Took With My Crappy Camera Looks Kind Of Like An Oil Painting
#146
Accidentally Printed A Picture On The Wrong Side Of The Paper. Came Out Like A Painting
#147
Section Of Board Where I Randomly Clean Off My Paintbrushes
Final score:
24points
#148
Coffee Left With A Spoon In It Formed A Tree Pattern
Kat Johnson 6 years ago
I saw a demon trying too eat your spoon first but yeah now I see the tree
#149
Accidental Beer Art: Row Of Trees
#150
The Cosmic Depths Of Dirty Dishwater
Final score:
23points
#151
Unstirred Paint
#152
The Creamer Left Some Mildly Interesting Art At The Bottom Of My Mug
#153
Spiderweb In A Car Looks Like A Van Gogh Painting
#154
Betta Fish. Unstirred Paint
Nadia Bakker 6 years ago
To me it's looks like a lone figure wandering within a dark cave, its stone walls and ground illuminated by the strange light of bioluminescent funghi.
#155
This Splatter Of Wax On The Bottom Of My Candle Holder
#156
My Wet Hair Made This Pattern On The Bed
#157
The Photo Taken Through My Bathroom Window Looks Like A Real Piece Of Art
#158
My Freezer Was Leaking Into A Cup And Made This Ice Block
Final score:
21points
#159
The Way This Water Spilled Looks Like A Tree
#162
This Stain From A Coffee Filter Looks Like A Watercolor Painting Of A Boot
#167
I Stepped On My Glasses, Resulting In An Oil Painting Of An Old Lady Carrying A Basket Of Bread
#168
This Map Made By A Ladybugs' Footprints
#169
Forest On The Side Of My Van Created By Dust And Rain
Final score:
17points
Just Carmen 6 years ago
I really love this. It looks like a painting straight out of the Arts and Crafts period. Beautiful!
#170
After A Party, This Dusty Table Looks Like Art
#171
Accidental Art
John Bennick 6 years ago
These posts are like Rorschach tests. And there are a lot of twisted nimrods in here.
#172
Heat Haze Caused By Jet Engine Exhaust
#173
Google Maps Glitched Out But It Looks Awesome
#174
The Bottom Of A Dried Up Bottle Of Ink
#175
This Display Of Notebooks At My Local Goodwill Looks Like Modern Art
#176
My Friend Gave Me Her Senior Pics But I Accidentally Ran Them Through The Wash. Pulled Them Apart And Found This Strange Art
#177
The Soap On My Windscreen
#179
Congealed Fat And Leftover Meat Juice From Cooking Roast Looks Like Art
#180
Dropped Phone Whilst Taking A Pic In Tokyo, Japan. Accidental Abstract Art
Alžběta Laurincová 5 years ago
That's how it looks like when they make any Murakami a movie. :D
#181
Sidewalk Paint After It Rains Looks Like A Piece Of Modern Art
#185
Mud Spattered On Black Car
Final score:
12points
#186
Left The Chipboard Backing From A Cheap Cabinet Out In The Rain Last Night
#187
Windshield During The Elite Carwash
Final score:
11points
#190
Dried Coffee At The Bottom Of A Mug
#193
A Construction Crew Spilled Paint On This Wall. I Snapped This Photo Before They Ruined The Art Piece By Trying To Clean It
#194
My Chocolate Wine Spill Made Art On My Yoga Pants
#195
The Cream On Top Of My Tea Looks Like Trees
#196
The Way This Tempered Glass Broke Looks Kinda Like Mountains
#197
This Construction Site Looks Like A Piece Of Art
#199
I Couldn't Help But Be Swept Away By The Stunning Cherry Blossom Like Image That Appeared On Her Leg
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Steve Bowman 6 years ago
The main thing I learned is: Don't shake your paint before opening it.
Deborah Nolan Gregory 6 years ago
Asides from the beauty of the pictures, I learned today that it appears there are only three artists that people can name - Monet, Van Gogh and Bob Ross!
LunaMendax 6 years ago
I took this photo on auto settings of my camera... Still don't know, why it looks like drawing Zakopane-2...811362.jpg 
Steve Bowman 6 years ago
The main thing I learned is: Don't shake your paint before opening it.
Deborah Nolan Gregory 6 years ago
Asides from the beauty of the pictures, I learned today that it appears there are only three artists that people can name - Monet, Van Gogh and Bob Ross!
LunaMendax 6 years ago
I took this photo on auto settings of my camera... Still don't know, why it looks like drawing Zakopane-2...811362.jpg
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