paintings

Dietrich Rosteck Art
Dietrich Rosteck Art
Dietrich Rosteck Art
Sometimes a dash of realism can make a scene even more bizarre. Dietrich Rosteck uses classic painting techniques to illustrate bizarre, dreamlike images of robots in love, goat-headed criminals and ghosts in the land of gumdrops.
Benjamin F. Guy Paints Giant Sci-Fi Helmets On Little Children [Art]
Benjamin F. Guy Paints Giant Sci-Fi Helmets On Little Children [Art]
Benjamin F. Guy Paints Giant Sci-Fi Helmets On Little Children [Art]
If you unmasked the children in Benjamin F. Guy's HELM series, they would probably be classic portraiture subjects: happy children in clean clothes sitting atop their tricycles and bounded around sandboxes. But Guy has added a touch that transforms these children into objects of fascination, overwhelming them with giant helmets from Star Wars, Metroid, Halo, Gundam and more while keeping these kid
Simon Monk Paints Superhero Action Figures Trapped In Their Protective Plastic Bags [Art]
Simon Monk Paints Superhero Action Figures Trapped In Their Protective Plastic Bags [Art]
Simon Monk Paints Superhero Action Figures Trapped In Their Protective Plastic Bags [Art]
Years ago, while babysitting my cousin's three-year-old daughter, I was delighted to discover that she owned a complete set of Star Wars action figures in a carrying case shaped like Darth Vader's helmet. Her father explained to me, with a bit of exasperation, that while he had tried to teach her the proper names for all the characters, sometime Bossk or Chewbacca would come away with entirely d
Daniel Danger Paints Haunting Houses and Faceless Giants [Art]
Daniel Danger Paints Haunting Houses and Faceless Giants [Art]
Daniel Danger Paints Haunting Houses and Faceless Giants [Art]
Sometimes, there is nothing better than a good crumbling house, a once elegant estate now rotting at the roof and floorboards, given over to the ghosts and wolves. There's a quietly apocalyptic feel to Daniel Danger's paintings, in which tiny cartoon figures inspect the remains of great, gothic homes, highway graveyards and carnivals fallen into disrepair...
Sharon Moody Paints Classic Comics From Another Perspective [Art]
Sharon Moody Paints Classic Comics From Another Perspective [Art]
Sharon Moody Paints Classic Comics From Another Perspective [Art]
There's painting comics and then there's painting comics. Take artist Sharon Moody's trompe l'oeil take on classic Marvel and DC superhero titles like Spider-Man, Fantastic Four and Superman, for example. Rather than going the Alex Ross route and painting comic book stories, the artist is using a photorealistic style to convey the experience of reading a vintage copy of an iconic title... Read Mor
Superhero Renaissance Mashup Paintings
Superhero Renaissance Mashup Paintings
Superhero Renaissance Mashup Paintings
A few years back, Worth1000 had a photoshopping contest where it asked readers to combine superheroes and Renaissance paintings in interesting ways. The result were hugely entertaining -- particularly if you have any familiar with the originals -- and io9 has collected a list of its favorites, including a "Starry Night"/batsignal mashup that is just begging to made into a background... R