artist unknown
Is the person wearing a fez or a beret? Reclining or begging? He or a she? Yikes! The only given is that the painting is bad, delicously bad!

artist unknown
The guy who sold me this told me it was of Wyatt Earp in his older years(sure!) Anyway, the painting is really technically quite good, but very creepy. There are no eyes, just black pits. Everytime I look at it I expect to hear Rod Serling speak, inviting me to go on a journey, [...]

‘Old Man in Pool’ by R. Knight, 1997
I was scouring the flea market in my usual routine when I came across a truck selling chain saws

By Warshaw

unknown artist
Not many historians are familiar with General Stonewall Sorenson, but he must have been a pretty tough customer. It looks like he was clocked a couple of hundred times in the nose. Very crude indeed!

by Klos?
I don’t usually do clowns, but this one looks insane! Besides, the painting’s round!

unknown artist
This is a very bad still life - bread, an apple, and could it be…corn? lying on … dirt? No! Grass has been added… an afterthought. The artist may have thought his work needed a little more pizzaz, or perhaps a critic thought he could improve upon the piece. Several faces in contorted agony [...]

by J. Wilkes-Mercer
At first it seems like the clever cloaking of the human form with the dazzlingly detailed geometric sweater suggests a certain discomfort with rendering body curves. However, the curveture of the snake belies that mistaken notion. Please note the wonderfully bad makeup job and chemotherapy turban.

artist unknown.
All I saw was a big ugly X.

by R. Knight
Alien rhapsody! An unconventional treatment of a familiar theme. Usually the chin comes to a very thin point at the base of a bulbous head. Here, the alien is very much shaped like a frog - but with a shiny metal space-helmut. To an artist, bucking tradition is what it’s all about.