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Kat Brunnegraff is on a mission to paint all 151 original Pokémon. But she puts her own spin on their simple shapes, giving them tiny expressions of self-satisfaction, uncertainty or disdain, and painting them against a retro motif of stars.

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.

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

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

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...

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

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