Francis Salles





















This page with two works is all I've been able to find on this amazing artist but it's enough to make me a great fan. If anyone knows where I could see more work by this artist, please tell me! Thank you.

The Feejee Mermaid and other Strange Curiosities
This place has a great collection of really weird monster sculptures and some vintage drawings of sea beasts.

Link found thanks to Pink Tentacle.

Taylor McKimens





















This gallery includes a very unique combination of installation art/sculpture and paintings that turns McKimens imagery into a strange version of reality. His bubblegum colored and textured deformed characters are really weird. Kind of like some surreal Dr Seuss version of Bigfoot.
McKimens has a new comic that comes out this month titled "The Drips". You can check it out over at this site.

This page of a bubblegum mutant nailing weird looking frogs to a pole is one of the weirdest things I've ever seen!

Rupert Lees





















Lots of intricately detailed pen and ink drawings of strange landscapes and beasts by this London based artist. Check out this awesome selection of monsters.


Some things you can expect to see in the following weeks here at Monster Brains will be a week devoted to Polish poster artists, another week dedicated to underground comic artists such as Rory Hayes, and another week will be focused on weird monster toys.

Ladislav Guderna
Canadian born surrealist, Guderna's work consists of collages reminiscent of Max Ernst's style. His paintings display crowds of odd looking characters. I was reminded of the art style from "Fantastic Planet" in many of the works.

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Ludovic Debeurme






















Here is the gallery of an incredible French comic artist. You can find more information on him at Lambiek.

Sekintani
This artist has composed many bizarre collages that manipulate the human anatomy into a multitude of monstrous and fantastic things. He's also made a lot of really weird and interesting drawings.
There is a book of his art titled "Sexoide" that is being published by the amazing Le Dernier Cri. Check it out here.

Nikolay Zaitsev
Many incredible environments of surrel cityscapes where people ride around on giant bicycles and floating machines fill the sky.

Tomasz Setowski
Strange fantasy paintings of sunken cities in the shapes of hats and giants.

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Bronislaw Chromy
Lots of fantastic sculptures, most of which are based on real life animals but manipulated into unique and strange looking life forms.

This link will take you to several galleries of Chromy's sculptures.
Some of the larger sculptures.
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Click on dragon here for incredibly large pic of it.

American Monsters
Here's a great collection of artwork of monsters that exist in legend around America.

Luke Przybylski
My good friend Luke Przybylski has his art blog back online. Be sure to bookmark this page and check back often for incredible artwork.

Tadami Yamada





















Lots of surreal paintings and drawings in this gallery. You'll find various pages of the works through the links on the left side of the page.
Check out this page of strange images from the gallery.

Howie Tsui "Of Manga And Mongrel"
Some really great paintings of derranged manga styled characters and mutated creatures floating around this gallery. The above painting is a great representation of one of the best original Nintendo videogames, Kid Icarus!

S.U.RR...
This is a French online magazine of artwork that falls under the surreal style. I've found many great artists on here that don't appear to be available anywhere else online.

Check out some of the art by Katerina Kubikova, here here and here.

I found this image very interesting.

Andrej & Olga Dugin
"The enchanting work of the husband and wife team Andre and Olga Dugin fills the pages of their unique re-telling of the Grimm Brother's story THE BRAVE LITTLE TAILOR. The duo (both originally from Moscow, now living in Germany) works in the tradition of Hieronymous Bosch or Peter Bruegel. In their version, which took over two years to produce, each corner of every illustration is filled with outrageous details; a gigantic fish sits in a birdcage, a tiny elephant walks upside down on the ceiling, winged salt shakers carry threaded needles."

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Barnaby Ward





















This artist has made some incredible adaptations of characters from "Alice In Wonderland". Take a look at some of them here. Ward's version of the Mad Hatter has to be the strangest I've ever seen. It appears to be influenced by Yoshitaka Amano.
You'll find many other bizarre characters scattered through out the rest of Ward's website.

Socar's World Of Weird
This gallery has many intricate pen drawings of plant life that has taken on the forms of humans, trees with goblin like faces, mice with roots growing out of their corpses. Lots of weird imagery to be found here.

Some of my favorite works...

Death And The Maiden
The Happy Weed
A Pious Thistle
The Sad Weed
Vulture Metamorphosis
The Flower And The Wormwood

Zeljko Djurovic
Dreamlike figures are posed through out colurful fantasy realms. There is a strange emphasis on horns, both attached to animals and growing out of the strange people in the artwork.

Victoria Fomina





















A Russian book illustrator with an emphasis on strange fantasy worlds and characters.

Click here to see more of the strange characters that populate Fomina's artwork.
Another painting can be seen here.
To see a larger version of the image posted above, click here.

Guillermo Silva


Many colorful paintings, etchings, lithographs and sculptures of strange characters and vehicles. Remedios Varos seems to have influenced some of Silva's art.

Many thanks to Giornale Nuovo for introducing me to this artist as well.

Xul Solar


The world of Xul Solar is filled with labyrinth like cities with dream like architecture, human headed serpents walking on four legs, floating airships with fantastic cities on the decks, and a wide array of other strange and fascinating imagery. According to the article on Xul at wikipedia, he invented two fully elaborated imaginary languages, symbols of which figure in his paintings.

Click on the 3rd picture down on this blog post over at Giornale Nuovo to see a large copy of one of Xul's best paintings.


Many thanks to Giornale Nuovo for introducing me to this artist.

Jüri Arrak
Much of Arrak's work is filled with blob like monsters.
There are many unusual beasts to be found in Arrak's paintings and drawings. Check out this dragon like creature.

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Navitrolla
This gallery has a combination of Terry Gilliam styled landscape paintings and a large number of weird animal drawings. Looking at these I was reminded of Clive Barker's "Jump Tribe".