Artist Adds Star Wars Characters to Thrift Shop Paintings

Posted on 23/03/2014 by Conner Flynn

A lot of people take paintings that they find at thrift stores and add stuff to them. Some people even add Star Wars themes to these paintings, but Dave Vancook has a great eye for it.

Boba Fett as a matador, facing off against a raging bull? Greedo in Scottish attire, riding a pony? How about an Endor Scout trooper having lunch at a restaurant with his speeder bike parked in front? Check. Check. And check. That is just some of Dave’s fantastically geeky work.

I would love to hang these up in my home. I especially like the Boba Fett one. It’s classy and geeky.

[via Boing Boing]

Thrift Store Paintings Meet Pop Culture

Posted on 25/02/2014 by Brittany High

Artist Dave Pollot collects thrift shop paintings and updates them with pop culture type stuff. Stuff like Darth Vader, a LEGO brick, the Apple icon, Duff beer, etc. Fortunately NOT pop culture type stuff like any of the Kardashians, that What Does The Fox Say song, or Miley Cyrus’s tongue. Put it away! Great, now [...]
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Geeky Heroes Boiled Down to Basic Blocks

Posted on 02/02/2014 by Paul Strauss

Artist Adam Lister creates awesome watercolor paintings of iconic pop culture figures using rudimentary block shapes. The most meta of his images has to be the watercolor of Bob Ross – though I’m having a hard time making out any happy little trees.

Despite their apparent simplicity, each image clearly conveys its subjects, while giving them a sort of 16-bit pixelated sensibility to them. He’s done versions of Darth Vader, Superman, Boba Fett, Batman and Robin, Iron Man, and even Forrest Gump. But my personal favorite is Kirk and Spock:

You can find more of Adam’s pieces over on his website – where you can get limited-edition 5×7 Giclee prints of many of his images. He’s even got a special running through today (2/2/14) where you can grab them for just $30(USD). And be sure to check out his gallery of original paintings here.

[via Geek Art]

NOT Photos, Hyperrealist iPad Paintings

Posted on 06/12/2013 by Brittany High

This is NOT a photo. It’s a digital painting created by artist Kyle Lambert using an iPad app called Procreate. It took Kyle about a month to put together this super realistic finger painting. If you’re curious about the process, watch the video below. If you’re not curious about the process, then what’s your deal? [...]
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Famous Paintings Updated with iPhones and Junk

Posted on 22/11/2013 by Jenni Chasteen

If we have any chance of getting kids interested in art these days we have to update the classics. I mean what’s relatable about timeless paintings that capture the essence of the human condition? To get anyone’s attention you’d have to turn them into gifs, replace all the people with cats, or at the very [...]
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Epic Classic Paintings and Superheroes Mash-up

Posted on 17/10/2013 by Hazel Chua

Classic Superhero Paintings “Little Supergirl” by aards2

Thousands of artists flock to Worth1000 every day, where art-centric competitions are held every day with site credits given away as prizes. Over the years, a number of “Superhero ModRen” photo effects contests have been run on the site. “ModRen” is a wordplay of sorts that combines “modern” and “renaissance,” which describes the type of edited images that users are submitting for this category.

In case you haven’t figured it out yet, the contest essentially challenges community members to recreate classic Renaissance paintings while injecting a modern, superhero twist into it. You can find more of interesting entries from the contest after the break.

Classic Superhero Paintings1 “Gogh’s Self Portrait” by ToughMashinski

Classic Superhero Paintings2 “Baby Spider-Man” by silberto67

Classic Superhero Paintings3 “Joker’s Self Portrait” by smlxl

VIA [ Laughing Squid ]

Classic Paintings Updated With Superheroes

Posted on 16/10/2013 by Brittany High

Superhero ModRen is a collection of classic Renaissance paintings updated with superheroes. All images are user submitted to Worth1000, a site that holds photo contests similar to this one. They’re all pretty good! Yeah, I’d say every single one deserves a prize. They’re all winners in my book! Which is probably why they didn’t ask [...]
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Miley Cyrus Twerking On Famous Paintings

Posted on 09/09/2013 by Brittany High

In Things That Will Make You Go :/ or actually Things That Will Make You Go because she can’t keep her tongue in her mouth (is it ’cause weak teeth? faulty lips?), here’s Miley Cyrus twerking on famous paintings. The series was put together by Buzzfeed staffer Jen Lewis. To be honest, I really struggled [...]
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Optical Illusions Portraits

Posted on 04/09/2013 by Brittany High

Optical illusions is just a fancy way of saying eye trickery, except it’s bigger words and harder to spell. This is a series of cray cray portraits, chock full of optical illusions aka eye trickery. The kinda stuff that’s gonna make your eyeballs be all “WAIT WUT?” and your brain say “This is too much [...]
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Paintings Of Popular Internet Memes

Posted on 12/06/2013 by Brittany High

This is a series of paintings inspired by internet memes. The artist responsible for the works of ~~art~~ internet is Lauren Kaelin. The artist responsible for the picture on the fridge is me. I can tell you’re impressed! Subjects of the meme paintings include Ermagerd girl, Zombie Jonathan, Ikea Monkey, the glorious Prancercise lady, and many more. But NO Bad Luck Brian. Which just seems appropriate. When an artist is does a series of paintings immortalizing the most popular memes on the internet, Bad Luck Brian will be overlooked. Of course!!!

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