Blue Sky Art Show, theme 'Odd'

artApr 25, 202615216,243

Today's 'Odd' roundup features mostly photography alongside sketches and small sculptures. Contributors shared architectural oddities like Casa Batllò (image by @billmontei.bsky.social), unusual wildlife and celestial moments such as the Aardvark Moon (@davesadventures.bsky.social), and playful roadside curiosities like a cow-on-a-pole lookout (@alinagrafik.eurosky.social). Infrared experiments, monochrome street snaps and unexpected landscape details round out the submissions, emphasizing quirky juxtapositions and objects or creatures seen out of place.

Bill Montei

@billmontei.bsky.social

Casa Batllò / Barcelona #Odd #BlueSkyArtShow #photography

319012h ago

Thomas 🇨🇦18

I love Barcelona so much! I really miss that place. Thank you for posting this photo. Brought back a lot of good memories

Catherine in AZ 🌞🌵🏜️13

Love love love the Gaudi architecture. ♥️

exhaustedradical.bsky.social13

Emerald Iguana Inn in Ojai, California, originally constructed as an apartment building in 1906. I've always believed it to be a Gaudi homage.

LordP66612

I visited almost all Gaudí houses and they are marvelous. The insides are just as captivating.

edg59.bsky.social9

Puts me in mind of the balconies on this building, in Milan...

inconstantsorrow19.bsky.social8

Antoni Gaudí was on the same level as Michelangelo Buonarroti. A true genius. Barcelona is worth a visit for his works alone.

Business Decision Pikachu7

It's beautiful, and pictures don't even do it justice. Everything inside feels perfect to the touch, the light flows beautifully throughout the rooms. If you like good design, you need to go here.

Neptune6

Go to Barcelona for a week before you die. Your soul needs it.

micbus.bsky.social6

We stayed directly across the street this past December - Barcelona is amazing!

Juliet Domvile6

It's gorgeous! But the second time I looked at it, the balconies looked like little cartoon faces. Teletubbies. Now I can't unsee that. It's the angle of the photo.

Shawn6

Arent the buildings just beautiful there? I was there about 10 years ago and I remember them

kikime2.bsky.social5

Great photo of it. I especially love that it shows the roof. Our guide told us it's a dragon, in honor of St. George—the patron saint of Barcelona.

jshov1.bsky.social4

How I miss la Barca….. so beautiful!.

Thomas Vieth4

Is this a Gaudi house?

robertjeff57-58.bsky.social4

Wow That’s original Great shot

BearDevil4

it’s no casa bonita but ok

Leslie Sherman3

Barcelona is on my bucket list. Read about Sagrada Família, a couple years ago, and now I have to see it!!! (Heard the food is fabulous too…😉)

Daniel B.3

A bit gaudy I’d say ;-)

No Wingnuts Allowed3

Barcelona is a marvelous city to visit. I went there with my mother and my sister and we were enchanted.

Ricardo3

Una de las obras de arte más bellas que he tenido el placer de visitar.

Lee Rowan 🐕 🐈‍⬛ 🌳 🌈 🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇦 🐉 🇺🇦🦇🪶🖋️ 🇺🇸3

This is gorgeous! Shows what you can do with decorative architecture when you don't have a heavy winter season. Around here the architecture makes me think too many kids never outgrew their LEGOs.

Phil3

I love touring the old architecture of Barcelona.

donniedonuts3

how wonderful is this... 🧚‍♂️

Paula3

My gosh Gaudi was ahead of his time!! Wonderful.

Hetkey3

Looks like that one time I bought a house and peeled the wallpaper only to find that previous occupants had painted the place a dozen different colors.

Thanks for the Fishes!3

It took a lot for Antoni Gaudi to be able to get his buildings approved. Imagine if more creative architectures like him were allowed to create. Art nouveau was a beautiful movement that embraced and incorporated nature and life into art. www.gaudi-foundation.org/about-gaudis...

Melissa Jo3

Wonderful photo, Bill. I love both Gaudi and Barcelona. 😊

YHenryG 📚 💉 😷3

back when architecture wasn't just straight lines. All the details from the harlequin mask balconies to the facade decorations are engaging

Tracy2

I loved touring the house, and many other Gaudi projects in Barcelona.

MaxxB1ade2

Aw, my Mum would have coveted that building just because it had purple flowers on it.

Nowhere 🏳️‍🌈2

Bit gaudí if you ask me (I love it)

Windy B.2

What could I possibly add that hasn’t already been said…yet another gorgeous capture, Bill.

gman8990.bsky.social2

The balconies are watching you! 😂😂

Satan2

We were there about 4 months ago....Barcelona kicks ASS!

Laura J2

The dragon on the roof!

emily404.bsky.social2

Interesting architecture...sort of a 'Beauty and the Beast' kind of theme.💕

JVaughn2

Incredible building - we attended a private event there once. Must see in Barcelona.

Tommi Ylamurto

@ylamurto.bsky.social

“ A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” #blueskyartshow #odd

149112h ago

George10

Outside Competition Cycles in Dania, Flori-duh.

Land Snark4

We should do this with every CyberTruck.

Antifa HQ I.T.3

Also an unknown said: those who plant trees have discovered the meaning of life.

Philthemtltrader2

Nice to read at a time when the US has a president taking a dump and sitting in it

larryg49.bsky.social2

It’s how we roll! I’m seventy six! Shalom

tgorf-stl.bsky.social2

Limited TEMU clearance garden planter sale …Shipping & Handling xtra

Davesphotos 🇨🇦 🍁🍁🍁

@davesadventures.bsky.social

This is the extremely rare Aardvark Moon which strikes me as appropriate for today's #BlueSkyArtShow #Odd I will likely not ever see a moon like this again! #Photography #EastCoastKin

an orange rising moon shaped like an Aardvark because of the clouds on the horizon

13385h ago

AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸5

Awesome shot, Dave! That is really cool.

wfothergill.bsky.social2

My daughter thinks it looks like the flag of Cypress.

Kent Brockman2

Trivia for all: Aardvark is a Dutch word for earth pig. Now back to your regularly scheduled program. You're welcome.

JoyousJoyfulJoyness

@joyousjoyness.com

Detox Doodles! These animals are from my 100-day journey to swap scrolling for sketching: www.joyousjoyness.com/pages/detox-... This page is all about the ridiculous Shoebill Stork! They're so #odd ! #art #bird #sketch #DetoxDoodles #sciart #InkArt #BlueSkyArtShow

Sketchbook page of blue pen drawings of 3 Shoebill Cranes. The text Shoebill and 6/7/25 are written at the top. On the left is a tall Shoebill standing and looking at the viewer straight on. The text "Man in a bird suit?" is written on the right of the bird. The top left is a flying Shoebill. The bottom right is a closeup of a shoebill with its mouth open, and the word Muppet written above it's back.

62610h ago

Terri Resists2

The shoebill reminds me of the Grinch.

Nature, Preserved

@simonecannon.bsky.social

Willow Lake with the Wrangell Mountains in the background, located within Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in Alaska, the largest national park in the US, covering 13 million acres #blueskyartshow #horizontal #nps #wrangellstelias #alaska #naturephotography #wilderness #nationalpark

52314h ago

WgwWvf3

Not if Trump has his way with it. Especially if it offers mining or logging resources that could potentially be sold off (even to FOREIGN entities): share.google/2iDMobCT0Nmq...

Tramonte's TrailPhotos

@tramontes-t-photos.bsky.social

A big ol' boulder was staring right at me on a #trail in #Flagstaff, #Arizona, but I just stared right back at it, and then just shot it (with my camera 😄). #hiking #BlueSkyArtShow #odd #landscapephotography

5118h ago

Kopavi3

Great shot! Do you remember the trail this was on or nearby roads?

SKEETERS 🇨🇦3

It's a very cool picture. 👍

Bret2

Breath of the wild anyone ?

Row Jimmy2

I saw this demon staring at me in Zion NP last week. 😮

🇿🇦 MaritMeya2

I see a nap pod

Landsil

@landsil.net

An odd place to rest 📷 #FujiFilm #X-T5 🔭XF35mm f2 #Photography #StreetPhotography #London #UK #odd #Monochrome #BlackandWhitePhotography #BlackandWhite #BlueSkyArtShow #Mood

A man sitting in shadow next to a massive garage gate in front of sunlit trash bins.

41518h ago

Ken Thompson2

Meditating on the reality of London recyclables. Nice idea but in the end, it’s rubbish to so many people.

Chip

@chipgr.bsky.social

Enjoy your day Nature photo day 467 #peace #Photography #NaturePhotography #plants #mushrooms #hiking #PhotographyOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #BlueSkyArtShow #odd

41312h ago

AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸

@alinagrafik.eurosky.social

#BlueskyArtShow #Odd Yes, that is a cow on a pole on top of a big hill, using binoculars to look at the landscape. This is your reward for hiking up the trail. 🐄😆 #ECK #Hiking #CowsOfSLO #WestCoastKin #Cow #IslayHill

At the top of a large hill, at the end of the hiking trail, is a brown and white cow attached vertically to a pole looking through binoculars. The hill has dry, dark brown vegetation. In the distance are hazy mountains, and the sky is a combo of blue and spotty clouds. The sun is illuminating the cow's belly, so the cow is looking into the direction of the morning sun. Islay Hill trail in San Luis Obispo, California.

35711h ago

Static Sky Travels3

I'm getting serious far side vibes

Carla2

Primo, Alina! Even I, with my walking sticks, would limp up there for such a sight! But now, I don’t need to! 💖

Nicole2

That’s so funny, Alina! At first look, I thought it was an real cow 🤪🤣🤣🤣

Jean Kelsey2

That is really weird. Is there a story behind this?

Shibui Shashin2

Great find and photographed. It reminds me of the Farside cartoons by Gary Larson. 😄

Andrea Peterson2

Ha ha! That is so fun! Thank you for taking us along on your hike 😄

Shibui Shashin

@shibui-shashin.bsky.social

Upside down house - Cardiff, Wales #upsideDown #house #Cardiff #BlueSkyArtShow #odd #classicMono

25516h ago

Paul2

I used to be a courier, I would be so mad if I showed up to this address 😂

Sofia Rozette

@sofia-r.bsky.social

#Photography #Streetphotography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPurple #Art #BlueSkyArtShow #Odd #Streetart

2238h ago

skinskin

@skinskintainan.bsky.social

#BlueSkyArtShow #odd the corner #art #photo #photography #arcade #market #nightphotography #streetsnap #LightAndShadow #Tainan #ECK ©️skinskin

17520h ago

Dorota

@dorotapawlak.bsky.social

3 rusty beauties #BlueSkyArtShow #Odd #EastCoastKin #photography #PhotographersOfBlueSky

18612h ago

Andrew 📷

@vixcomplex.bsky.social

February Veil 2-1-2026 The light was there. Just barely. #Fog #Sun #Nature #SonyAlpha #Minimalist #Mood #Trees #LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite #Mono #BlueSkyArtShow #Odd

Bare winter tree branches silhouetted in dark black against a foggy gray sky, shot from below looking upward. The sun, diffused through dense morning fog, appears as a soft bright disc in the upper right, surrounded by a wide luminous halo that fades gradually into the flat gray atmosphere. A diagonal branch cuts across the left side of the frame, drawing the eye inward toward the light. A second tree anchors the right, its fine bare twigs weaving around the glowing sun. In the lower right, the faint ghostly outline of a structure emerges from the fog. The overall mood is quiet, melancholic, and otherworldly — a winter morning caught between darkness and a light that hasn't quite decided to arrive yet.

12611h ago

Rain Hayes

@rainhayes.com

Mainly an appreciator of the #BlueSkyArtShow, I couldn't resist today's #Odd theme. A Storksbill seed, photographed in infrared. They're a super common weed, but I never really noticed them til the pandemic gave me little else to work with. #photography