Upcycled paintings

Check out these DIY upgraded thrift store art pieces.

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9 Awesome Ways to Upcycle Thrift Store Paintings

Turn old thrift store art into an upcycled vintage painting that'll add a whimsical touch to your home!

"Re-Directed Painting is a genre of art where I buy from yard sales, thrift shops or salvage from the curb predictable mass-produced art and add my own slant to them"

20+ thrift store painting makeover ideas to upcycle old art. Suggestions with tutorials and inspiration for ways to alter thrift art.

Dave Pollot (previously here and here) is a US painter who brings new life to old and forgotten art. He buys thrift store paintings and perfectly "enhances" them with pop culture symbols, giving a cool, nerdy spin to what's dusting away inside cracked frames.

Going thrift shopping is always an adventure. You never know what you might find while digging through a bargain bin of shoes or a barrel full of backpacks and belts. If you’re lucky, you might even stumble upon a piece of artwork that’s worth displaying in your home. And even if you don’t think any of the pieces are up to par yet, you might be able to give a painting new life by adding your own flair to it.

Artist David Irvine takes old thrift shop paintings and paints pop culture characters into their landscape. The final results are epic and oddly beautiful.

One very talented painter teaches us how to turn a nondescript thrift store landscape painting into a one-of-a-kind work of art.