Monster added to thrift store painting a success!
20+ thrift store painting makeover ideas to upcycle old art. Suggestions with tutorials and inspiration for ways to alter thrift art.
Artists are giving thrift store paintings new life and sharing them on the Repaintings subreddit; here are some of our favorite upgraded pieces of art!
Idyllic rural thrift-store paintings, while perhaps pretty, might not be the most interesting paintings in the world. David Irvine, however, has set out to change all of that by collecting thrift-store paintings and “re-directing” them by adding various pop-culture book, movie and TV characters.
Try this trend! Painting ghosts on thrifted art is an easy way to make cute Halloween decor with an old thrift store painting.
Need creative ideas for wall art that won't break the bank? Visit your nearest thrift store and turn some cheap thrift art into a masterpiece.
Give your thrifted wall art a spooky makeover with some paint. Add ghosts, witches, pumpkins, black cats, bats and a full moon.
Dave Pollot is a painter in the US who brings new life to old and forgotten thrift store paintings by adding pop culture characters. He uses these old paintings to combine his interest in painting with his love for pop culture.
The delicate flower wallpaper is reminiscent of old paintings, adding a touch of romance and nostalgia to the graphics.
David Irvine is an artist in Toronto who breathes new life into old thrift-store paintings by adding new, often silly elements and characters. Since we last wrote about his altered thrift store paintings (or, as he calls it, 'Re-Directed Art'), Irvine has come up with a host of new bizarre paintings that we'd love to share with you.
Ever wonder how to get more dynamic POP in your paintings? Well, you're in luck! In this month's Studio Diary, I get all kinds of geeky over the many ways dynamic contrast can breathe life into a painting. For example, playing with dynamic color, value, mark, texture, size, shape, mood, speed, materials, and scale (whew!) can all add a potent visual spark to make your paintings SING. This month's Diary is packed with fresh creative exercises, painting videos, an awesome interview with painter, Jeremy Szopinski, ideas for exploring contrast in everyday life, and so much more. With an abundance of creative exercises, I'm happy to pass along one of the full-length videos for you to enjoy right now. This exercise offers some super easy and fun ways to explore Color Contrast. I hope you enjoy it!
Have you ever been to a thrift store (think Goodwill or Salvation Army) and noticed that they usually carry a small selection of landscape paintings? Artists Chris McMahon and Thryza Segal d…
Portrait of Baroness M by Władysław Bakałowicz (Polish, 1833-1904)
study for hearse technique:oil/camvas dimensions: 120/130 cm 2007 lonelyness dimensions : 120/80 cm technique : oil/canvas silence dimen...
I usually start the year with kindergartners learning about and using lines. In previous years we have made line paintings and line sculptures with wire and pipecleaners. Another fun project we made was line windsocks by rolling up line paintings and adding tissue paper streamers. We’ve done line drawings (check out what my old blog used to look like before I moved it over to this website.) This year I was reminded by Cassie Stephens of a project I used … Read more... →
Adding MIDI to Old Home Organs: In a previous instructable "How to Get a Free Synthesizer" I talked about how to obtain a "synthesizer" (a home organ) for next to nothing. So, maybe now you have your free home organ and maybe it looks cool but doesn't work properly or maybe it wor…
Firearm Discussion and Resources from AR-15, AK-47, Handguns and more! Buy, Sell, and Trade your Firearms and Gear.
The focus of this workshop is painting watercolor florals that glow, while abstracting the background and adding gold highlights for zing. Karen will demonstrate sunflowers, but students may choose whatever...
