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My 26 Subverted Paintings That I Find At Garage Sales And Charity Shops
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Aside from my usual work as a graphic designer and illustrator I get a thrill out of taking found art from garage sales and charity shops and putting it into a totally new and unexpected context. There is always something in the expression of the eyes of an original portrait or a strangely empty area in an oil painting composition that cries out for something outlandish for me to add.
I take particular pleasure in finding the most innocuous, mundane and innocent settings and turning them on their head with as simpler an idea that I can think of. There are some things I feel quite guilty about destroying: the portrait of a loved pet, an antique photo of a favorite aunt, someone’s painfully detailed watercolor rendition of their adored home or garden, all waiting to have a sudden alien invasion or a giant fried egg cruelly added by me.
I mostly work on the computer these days so it is great to get my hands dirty and have something you can ultimately hang on the wall—as long as you don’t recognize the original as some of your earlier work!
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Snowy Meep Meep
A Very English Invasion
Dear Chris DiFonso, It is a great honor to see your amazing works. I am from a publishing company in China. We are a for-profit publishing company that publishes magzines. We engaged in popular science,environmental protection,education and other aspects of the content of publishing. We would like to publish this picture in our magazine. May I have your authorization?
Magnificent Beasts
Sunny Side Up
Seek And You Shall Find
Ghosts
The Very Nerve
Duck Pond
Nothing To See Here, Constable
Richmond Hill Squid
Oops
Is Nothing Sacred
My Beat
Photo Opportunity
Marble Hill Midsummer
New Hat
Looking Toward Eel Pie
Love Story
Ham
I Died And Went To Heaven
Whatever Happened To Montagu Watson
Keeler Bed Head
I'm not sure wether to interpret this using my clean mind or my dirty mind...
These "improvements" are fabulously witty!
These "improvements" are fabulously witty!