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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Fell Asleep In The Bath. Finger Brains
Art Only Nature Can Create. My Fence This Morning After A Snowy Night On Terschelling, The Netherlands
looks like artic organ pipes, that would play music to chill the soul.
Morning Frost Looks Like It’s Painted
Just like spectacular sunsets... meant to be enjoyed, but only for a brief moment in time.
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
Oranges Photographed Through The Glass Panes Of A Greenhouse
A Rock Created Bird Shaped Window Art On My Car
Sunset Reflected In A Broken Mirror
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.
I Dropped Some Water, Opened The Table Extension To Dry And A City Landscape With Temples And Pinnacles Appeared
Even The Shadows In Scotland Are Plaid
Something Bumped Against A Wall At Work And Made A Painting Of A Snowy Town
This Colony Of Moss Growing Inside A Bike Seat
Mud Spatters On The Car Window Created An Accidental Monet On My Friend's Outback Road Trip
After I Poured Milk Into My Coffee, I Found Snoopy On The Doghouse Under The Moon
Volcanic Explosion On A Lid
The Swirls On This Log
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.
Christmas Lights Under The Snow
A Tree Pattern Inside A Tree
The Snow Has Settled Only On The Outline Of The Bricks On My Friends Driveway
Blue With A Touch Of Yellow. Unstirred Paint
This is beautiful. It looks like those aerial pictures of rivers and deltas.
The Way This Wood Split Looks To Me Like A City Skyline
The Tapestry Above My Bed Made A Pretty Sweet Reflection In My Coffee This Morning
Bark Of A Snow Gum Tree Looks Like A Painting
The Shadow From The Dirt On My Window Looks Like Mountains
This Car Door Looks Like An UFO Above The Forest
My Friend Took A Picture Of Her Cat With A Crappy Cellphone Camera Through A Dirty Window Frame And It Looks Like A Painting
This Aerial Photo Of A Garden Looks Like A Surrealist Painting
The Spilled Ink On My Finger Looks Like A Forrest Fire Have Taken Place
The Frost On My Window Looks Like Birds Flying Off A Pine Tree
Fine Art
Bubbles Seen Through The Top Of The Shampoo Bottle
Was Coloring Eggs With My Niece When She Accidentally Made A Dragon Egg
This Coffee Stain That Resembles A Map On The Inside Of My Cup
The Camera Focused On The Reflection Of The Tree Instead Of The Watch
My Dog's Face Looks Like A Van Gogh Painting
Centrifugal Force Creates A Perfect Work Of Art
My Coworker Spilled Wine In The Office So I Turned It Into A Spazzy Cat, He Loved It
Plum Crazy (Phg) Chrysler. Unstirred Paint
Found This Smeared Paint On The Window Of A Vacant Store That Looks Like A Classical Chinese Watercolour Painting Of A Horse
The Ice Pattern Outside Of My House Looks Like A Wolf Spirit
Algae On A Chinese Lake Looks Like An Impressionist Painting
The Way This Ice Froze Looks Like A Topographic Map
From The Engine Room At Dusk
This Van, Covered In Dirty Snow, Looks Like A Bob Ross Canvas
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.
This Dying Leaf Looks Like It's Pixelating
The Underside Of My Yogurt Lid Looks Like A Haunted Graveyard
I Cracked My Screen Protector And It Created A Beautiful Piece Of Landscape Art
The Way My Lightbulb Burned Out Looks Like Art
This Window Looks Like A Painting
My Friend's Dirty Car Looks Like A Painting
My Coffee Came Out Looking Like A Bride
The Spray Pattern On This Wall From A Plumbing Exaust
Drone Photo Directly Above Bowls Club. Looks Like A Surreal Painting
Purple Swirl. Unstirred Paint
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?
The Pattern Formed By These Tables And Their Shadows
A Face Was Scuffed Into My Car After A Minor Car Accident
Took This With My Phone Through My Windshield While Stopped At A Light
My Photo Of A Frozen Waterfall. Looks Like A Watercolor Painting
Oil World
The Beautiful Brain. Unstirred Paint
The Way The Dye Fell Through This Solvent I Was Making
A Flurry Of Cherry Blossom Petals
The Way This Window Turned To Look Like A Painting. Florence, Italy
The Sunrise Shining Off The Icy Roof Of My Car
Cool Ice Pattern On My Wheel After Driving Through Wet Snow
Paint Tint Came Out As An Apple
A Shattered Window
Dropped My Phone, It Bounced Off The Trail And 20 Feet Down The Side Hill Through The Vegetation. It Was On A Camera Timer
Yesterday I Droped My Waterbottle. This Is The Pattern It Made While Rolling Away
I Was Melting Down Some Chocolate At School And Noticed This Little Bird And Tree Design On My Spatula
Yin Yang In A Water Drop
This Van That Was Painted Over The Rust To Make Mountains
Dried Up Salt Water Turned Into Squares
This Unfiltered Picture I Took Looks Like An Oil Painting Because Of The Rain On The Window
Tire Mark On Highway Looks Like Hummingbird
I Dropped A Box Of Spaghetti On The Ground And Accidentally Graduated From Art School
Slushy Roads + Centrifugal Force = Art
My Coffee Surprised Me With A Painting This Morning
This Almost Symmetrical Pattern Someone Left In Our Driveway This Morning
Pollen That Formed On The Water Looks Like Artwork
The Tear-Out On This Veneer Looks Like A City Skyline
The Siracha I Put On My Egg Accidentally Looks Like Someone Hugging The Sun
This Cat Looks Pretty Cool Through The Glass Of One Of Our Windows Like Some Sorta Painting
My Wife Looks Like She Is Walking Inside A Painting. I Took This With Her iPhone
This Is What Paint Looks Like Before It Gets Shaken
My Friend's Nail Polish Chipped To Look Like An Old Fisherman
Old Paint On A Rusted Container
My Dirty Work Pants Left A Very Clear Imprint On This Chair
The Algae On My Pontoon Boat Looks Like A Pretty Good Painting
Pattern Formed From A Table And Melting Snow
The Opening In This Wall Looks Like A Piece Of Art Hanging On It
This Protein Shake Stain Looks Like An Alien
This Stepping Stone Looks Like A Painting Of Misty Mountains
This Clock In A Server Room Is Accidental Modern Art
The Foam In My Beer Looks Like A Smiling Dog
There's A Creepy Smiley Face In My Coffee
Accidental Ink Splodge Looks Like A Flying Pterodactyl
Wanted To See What A Plant Would Look Like Before I Hung It. Forgot To Get Out Of The Way. Accidental Surrealism
It reminds me of the painting The Son of Man, a 1946 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte.
The Street Water Made A Tree In The Snow Of The Parking Lot
My Cracked Fire Glass Looks Like A Thunderstorm Painting
A lake, a small hill, a forest on fire, a thunderstorm, a nuclear reactor in the lake...tell me if I missed something out...
My Friend's Coffee Grounds Look Like An Abstract Forest Painting
Not that abstract, actually. It's like looking into a wooded valley with two large, carved stone heads.
The Bottom Of My Eraser Looks Like A Painting Of Birds In Front Of A Row Of Trees
This Window Looks Like A Painting
Crazy Stairs Look Like A M.C. Escher Painting, Not Sure Why Anybody Would Build Like This
I Was Cleaning The Flat Top Grill At My Work And Suddenly A Canvas Of A Forest On The Lakeside
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.
Saw This At Star Wars Celebration Parking Lot. That's No Accident
Washed My Daughters Comforter. This Is How It Ended Up When The Cycle Was Done
Looks Like An Impressionist Painting
Jack Frost work another painting for humans to enjoy while being cold.
My Sister's Dog Fell Asleep Under The Misters
This Melted Exit Sign Which Looks Like An Art Project
I Put Jello In The Freezer To Set It Quickly And Ended Up With This Awesome Pattern
The Way The Rain Made This Paint Dry
I Accidentally Painted A Snow Covered Forest With My Router Shavings
The Residue Of Black Paint Mixed With My White Paint And Made A Little Forest
Ink Spilled Onto My Workbench, Tiny Swan Was Born
This Photo My Uncle Took Of A Sunset Looks Like A Japanese Painting
The Icy Roof Of My Car Looked Like A Painting This Morning
Who Knew Paint Had A Brain?
Art Or Window Washing
This Pattern In The Water From Boiling Eggs
I Accidentally Painted A Horse With My Foot While Waiting For The Bus
My 8 Month Old's Hair Is Always In A Perfect Swirl That Reminds Me Of A Van Gogh Painting
The Fruit Bowl At My Work Fell Over And Now It Looks Like A Renaissance Painting
Chopped A Red Cabbage And Found This Pattern
I Accidentally Put Too Much Paint On The Brush So I Pinched It On A Tissue And This Butterfly Emerged
Unintentional Modern Art
Geological Map Of The Moon - Looks Like Modern Art
Homemade Brew
Police Officer Trying To Save American Flag During Hurricane Harvey Looks Like A Painting
My Bathroom Window Looks Like An Abstract Painting Every Morning
My Roommate Cooked A Cat Shaped Pizza, The Parchment Paper He Cooked It On Now Looks Like A Cave Painting Of A Cat
This Spiral My Wife's Nail Polish Made When It Dropped And Broke
Space. Unstirred Paint
This Shadow Looks Like Decal Art On A Car
This Orange Juice Dried And Cracked Into A Pretty Pattern
I Left My Transition-Lensed Glasses Next To A Window Screen And The Sun Left A Checkerboard Pattern On The Lens
The Way My Friend’s Window Splintered Was As Though Two Atoms Were Cataclysmically Colliding
Was Painting A Project When The Black And White Paint Mixed And Made This Design
Bob Ross Broke My Screen
After Dumping Out The Kid’s Sidewalk Paint
Intergalactic Unstirred Paint
This Sunset Looks Like A Painting On The Wall
This Picture I Took With My Crappy Camera Looks Kind Of Like An Oil Painting
Accidentally Printed A Picture On The Wrong Side Of The Paper. Came Out Like A Painting
Section Of Board Where I Randomly Clean Off My Paintbrushes
Coffee Left With A Spoon In It Formed A Tree Pattern
I saw a demon trying too eat your spoon first but yeah now I see the tree
Accidental Beer Art: Row Of Trees
The Cosmic Depths Of Dirty Dishwater
Unstirred Paint
The Creamer Left Some Mildly Interesting Art At The Bottom Of My Mug
Spiderweb In A Car Looks Like A Van Gogh Painting
Betta Fish. Unstirred Paint
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.
This Splatter Of Wax On The Bottom Of My Candle Holder
My Wet Hair Made This Pattern On The Bed
The Photo Taken Through My Bathroom Window Looks Like A Real Piece Of Art
My Freezer Was Leaking Into A Cup And Made This Ice Block
The Way This Water Spilled Looks Like A Tree
This Stain From A Coffee Filter Looks Like A Watercolor Painting Of A Boot
I Stepped On My Glasses, Resulting In An Oil Painting Of An Old Lady Carrying A Basket Of Bread
This Map Made By A Ladybugs' Footprints
Forest On The Side Of My Van Created By Dust And Rain
I really love this. It looks like a painting straight out of the Arts and Crafts period. Beautiful!
After A Party, This Dusty Table Looks Like Art
Accidental Art
These posts are like Rorschach tests. And there are a lot of twisted nimrods in here.
Heat Haze Caused By Jet Engine Exhaust
Google Maps Glitched Out But It Looks Awesome
The Bottom Of A Dried Up Bottle Of Ink
This Display Of Notebooks At My Local Goodwill Looks Like Modern Art
My Friend Gave Me Her Senior Pics But I Accidentally Ran Them Through The Wash. Pulled Them Apart And Found This Strange Art
The Soap On My Windscreen
Congealed Fat And Leftover Meat Juice From Cooking Roast Looks Like Art
Dropped Phone Whilst Taking A Pic In Tokyo, Japan. Accidental Abstract Art
That's how it looks like when they make any Murakami a movie. :D
Sidewalk Paint After It Rains Looks Like A Piece Of Modern Art
Mud Spattered On Black Car
Left The Chipboard Backing From A Cheap Cabinet Out In The Rain Last Night
Windshield During The Elite Carwash
Dried Coffee At The Bottom Of A Mug
A Construction Crew Spilled Paint On This Wall. I Snapped This Photo Before They Ruined The Art Piece By Trying To Clean It
My Chocolate Wine Spill Made Art On My Yoga Pants
The Cream On Top Of My Tea Looks Like Trees
The Way This Tempered Glass Broke Looks Kinda Like Mountains
This Construction Site Looks Like A Piece Of Art
I Couldn't Help But Be Swept Away By The Stunning Cherry Blossom Like Image That Appeared On Her Leg
The main thing I learned is: Don't shake your paint before opening it.
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!
I took this photo on auto settings of my camera... Still don't know, why it looks like drawing Zakopane-2...811362.jpg 
The main thing I learned is: Don't shake your paint before opening it.
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!
I took this photo on auto settings of my camera... Still don't know, why it looks like drawing Zakopane-2...811362.jpg
