Art Outside The Lines - Fun, Cool and Amazing Art

For thousands of years, art has been a mirror for the progression of human creativity. So, if you believe the old adage that art imitates life, than the world as we know it must be a strange and fascinating place.

My name is John Staughton, and this blog digs deep into the bizarre, ground-breaking, or just plain cool art that's out there to enjoy or be confused by. If you dig creativity in all its' forms, then you'll also want to check out my second blog, Outside the Box Innovations.

No canvas is too unusual, no medium is too bizarre, and no idea is too "out there". These posts are a visual feast and a mental puzzle. I hope you enjoy this amazing art as much as I do!

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Crochet the Change You Want to See in the World

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Pulling the strings of New York artist Olek will only give you more questions to answer. Her crochet-based installments and art are riddles wrapped in a mystery inside....well, yarn. She tries to untie the knots of society and unwind her own self-expression as an artist by weaving her journey into her work.

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A Shot of Life: Bubble Wrap Injection Art!

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Popping bubble wrap is like a compulsive childhood addiction that never goes away, at least for some of us. You'll have to fight that temptation when you see Bradley Hart's artwork, which is made with thousands of paint-injected bubbles to create photorealistic mosaics. For all of you bubble wrap junkies, Hands Off!

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One Man's Trash...The Shadow Sculptures of Diet Wiegman

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Is that Michael Jackson standing in front of a mangled pile of trash? No, that's just the brilliant balance of darkness and light in Diet Wiegman's playful and profound shadow sculptures.

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More Than Skin Deep - Spectacular and Wild Body Art!

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Does Art Reflect Life? Or does Life reflect Art? The unbelievable body art of Craig Tracy will not bring that timeless paradox anywhere close to closure, because his mixture of the human form and artistic expression is nothing short of (r)Evolutionary.

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Genius In A Bottle: Amazing Wine Cork Mosaics

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Lord Byron once said, "Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after". Conrad Engelhardt, a London-based artist, has certainly taken that advice to heart with his stunning wine-inspired mosaics made entirely out of corks. Wine and women indeed....

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Dreams On The Wind: The Incredible Sand Art of Kseniya Simonova

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Some artists use paint, while others choose charcoal. Some paintings take years, and others take hours. Some hang on gallery walls, while others simply lie forgotten on easels. Kseniya Simonova's art is different... it's made entirely of sand, she can create some of them in mere minutes, and when they are finished, she simply blows them away to start something new.

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Up In Smoke: The Revolution of High Art

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4/20, International Pot Smoking Day, has come and gone, but Chronic artist Cliff Maynard never stops celebrating the holidaze. His mind-blowing portraits made of the burnt-out roaches from thousands of joints prove that drugs don't just inspire art, sometimes they actually make it. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

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The Neon Lovechild of Modern Art

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Paint splatters and graffiti might look like accidents or vandalism to some people, but the eye-catching, genre-bending artwork of Rowena Martinich is redefining ideas of art and beauty, while answering one very important question; what would it look like if Warhol, Pollock, and Picasso got together and went wild on a wall?

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Tea and Vodka and Brandy - Oh My!

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Some artists choose to drink alcohol while they work, but British artist Carne Griffiths chooses to use vodka, brandy, and tea traditional paint to create the unique colors and textures of her eye-catching and enthralling work.

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Trash To Treasure - Amazing Celebrity Portraits

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Celebrity portraits have always captured the attention of the world, but San Francisco-based artist Jason Mecier has built his career by making portraits that tell the real story behind celebrities. His mosaic portraits are made of candy, pills, lipstick, cell phones, cigarette butts, and every other object (or substance) in between.

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