Post #286084 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Feb 16, 2007 10:49 AM

What a great concept. I love thrift store art, and I know a couple of people that collect paint-by-numbers pieces. And I love modified thrift store art (when well executed).

Here are some pieces of added on thrift store art that I own, the first is from my old friend Charles Schneider, he added the Tikis, and some of the flowers to integrate them better:

And here are two small thrift store paintings that my friend Moritz R., cover designer of the BOT, found here in CA when visiting from Germany. They were in their frames already, and Moritz added the Tikis:

Industrial Tiki

This one was a generic nature scene, but it had little bamboo sticks already attached to the painting. Moritz added the real leaves, painted in the nude on the rock, and then he took a dried up tube of brown oil paint and sculpted the Tiki out of it, so the piece is partly 3D:

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2007-02-16 12:15 ]