I improved a thift store painting I found

Dec 26, 2014 8:26 PM

faintestgem

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Osigiliath/Dale mash up1!1!!1 brrraapbrapbrap!!11!

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Make me one please? :)

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

So....can we make requests?

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"I thought I would give it a go also I'm really good at painting anyway."

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

"For what I see are people inspired by each other, and by you. People take things from what you have, are making something new out of it."

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

My upvote just made it an even 10,500. Hnnngggg

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

inb4 you realise you just ruined a 125.000$ paiting. gg

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Let me guess. You saw a Hobbit film?

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

OMG you Moron! Did you know that painting is actually Piotr Michałowski A polish painter from 1800 I have only seen one in my Art school...

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Text books look the last one sold for over 5 million here is a video of the auction...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

you should check it before you paint, I found one worth a few thousand once

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This happens to me every goddamn time I move a few hundred meters in Skyrim. Damned dragons killing my NPC buddies and such.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Fucking awesome

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

IKR? And to think, OP only had $20 in their pocket.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Where can I buy your work? Genius.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My reactions. 1.) Cool paiting 2.) Wtf?! You just ruined that for no reason 3.) OMFG AMAZING!!!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

One of the few times I've not felt offended by people painting over paintings. you kept the original style and your addition fits the piece.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

OP's brush-strokes are broader and cruder, art mash-ups are fine when consented to, not so much when painting over someone's hard work.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Okay, it's not EXACTLY the same, but it fits the theme. It's not like giant war of the worlds robots.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Plot twist, that painting was worth millions of dollars and was some obscure painting. Good job!

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

every true artist is cringing right now.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

"Hmm, let me take someone else's work, vandalize, and then without credit try and claim credit for my 'additions'".

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My friend bought a painting at thrift store once and it turned out to being a rare original that was worth over $100,000. He donated it 1/2

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

to a local art museum because he felt that's where it belongs. He is an artist too, so he felt that everyone deserved to see it's beauty 2/2

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I would've sold that at an auction so quickly

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I dunno, I always feel bad for the original painter when people do this (unless it's just a copy of the painting).

11 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

It's nearly always a copy--you can find originals at thrift stores, but if you know a little about art you can usually tell.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Reddit OP said it was a copy, so no harm done :)

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

TROGDOR!!!

11 years ago | Likes 83 Dislikes 0

No two people are not on fire.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Burninating all da peeple.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

THE BURNINATOR

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I still make references to that site. Like "the system is down" then I make the techno noises. Ya. Im never growing up.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

burning all the thatch roof cottagesssss!!!!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Look out, peasants

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Burninatin' the cities, burninatin' the countrysides

11 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

And the THATCHED ROOF COTTAGEZZZ

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

TROGDOR!!!!! TROGDOR!!!!!!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

OP, I got $250 with your name on it.

11 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 2

One dollar Bob.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I have $255....

11 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

IT'S NOT A COMPETITION, @PROVENZER0!

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$255.01

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Actual retail price: $255...@provenzer0, come on up here!

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/Reign_of_Fire_movie.jpg

11 years ago | Likes 44 Dislikes 1

post apocalyptic movie that features people telling the story of star wars to little kids has my approval

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Ya, when I realised what they were doing that was hilarious, lol

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

So, you thought that city could be more like Beijing and added Smaug?

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Had to come back to upvote this

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11 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

yeah..... ok take the upvote you whore

11 years ago | Likes 55 Dislikes 1

You know me so well and we've never talked.

11 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

As a lotr fan who's lived in Beijing, you brilliant bastard, take my upvote

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Woah... You can hear the minds being blown

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I see what you did there....

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Pronounced 'Sm-ow-g' you filthy dwarven scum.

11 years ago | Likes 41 Dislikes 3

Unless you're Peter Jackson, in which case it's pronounced "Shh-m-ow-g"

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Yeah, it took me a while to get it because of that pronounciation.

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Yeah I'll admit when I first started reading LotR I thought it was 'S-oar-on'. But according to Tolkien's own pronunciation guides (1/2)

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(2/2) the 'au' combination is pronounced 'ow' as in 'how'. Hence 'Sm-ow-g' and 'S-ow-ron'.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Am I the only one who didn't get this?

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Well, you see Beijing is notorious for amount of smog. Smaug is the dragon from the hobbit. I combined the two.

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Oh, lol, wasn't familiar with the word "smog"

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oh good. I was wondering how I missed that the student protests from a couple months ago turned into a burning city.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

...that was Hong Kong.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

did you just

11 years ago | Likes 91 Dislikes 11

go back to tumblr

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Just what?

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Great success!

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I think he just

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OMG I can't even

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(bold) (italics) ADDED SMAUG. i aM LITERALLY DYiNG I CANT EVEN.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Improved it? Nono, you finished it.

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I think it was da vinci who said art is never finished only abandoned

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I logged in just to upvote this comment.

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

finish it, no you medievel it. dang

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

This man speaks the truth. Let his voice be heard throughout the kingdoms!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

it was laking

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The two are not mutually exclusive by any means

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Finished it? Nono, you blessed it.

11 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Can there please be a site called 'FINISH IT' where people show before and afters of paintings/art?

11 years ago | Likes 67 Dislikes 0

And if you click on the piece you get http://www.myinstants.com/instant/finished-tada/

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Well done

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Sometimes /r/redditgetsdrawn/ shows a timelapse.

11 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

A painter finishes a painting precisely when he means to?

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I love these two comments

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I think you'll find most timepieces disagree with you - Harry Potter and the Natural 20.

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While i love the new painting i'm always curious if there is an artist out there a little hurt that something he worked hard on was changed.

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Even if it's real paint they are usually assembly line painted

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If it was an original I think its really rude. If its a print then have fun, just don't take credit for the original artist's work.

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lol You said "hard on"

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no see that doesn't matter because its in a thrift store! see! hehe!

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A lot of these are reproduction prints anyway :)

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Don't worry, Mildred P. Jackson of Scranton, PA could hardly remember that night that she went with friends to a wine and canvas party.

11 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 0

I like this.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Scranton, heck yeah!

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

570 represent

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it was probably painted for a bowl of rice in china...so they probably didn't see this

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I'm waiting for someone to post a "new" painting, only to find out through the imgur geniuses that the original was priceless.

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And that is why you Google the shit out of it first, maybe? If I had any talent at that, I'd definitely research and make sure first.

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Step 1: Buy Thrift Store Painting

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Step 3: have ambition

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Step 2: Make sure it isn't a long-lost, priceless painting.

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Step 2: add &knuckles

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*thift

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Step 2: ???

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Step three: Make profit!

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Step 2: cut a hole in that painting.

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Step 3: Put dick through hole.

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Step 4: profit

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Step 3: Hide behind wall with painting hanged in a room where people are so you can watch them.

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Step 2: Have talent for painting

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Step 1: ✓ Step 2: ...Fuck.

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Step 3: Make her open the box.

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And that's how you do it

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Step 3: realize I have no painting ability.

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Step 4: cri

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Step 4: ???

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Step 5: Profit!

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Except, Step 5: Not profit

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