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Illustration Friday - Creature

monsterfriendThis is a piece from sometime last year.  Its another thrift store detournement piece.  When I pulled this off my wall this morning, I totally forgot that I treated it with a layer of modge podge to try and unify my painting with the original.  It kind of worked.  I might try this again on my cobra commander  blue boy painting I finished this summer.  Happy Halloween, everybody!
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  1. Elizabeth MetzOctober 31, 2013 at 7:07 AM

    Oh, this is tons of fun. And the friendly creature fits right into the original painting, almost seamlessly. Love it.

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  2. DougDoesLifeOctober 31, 2013 at 8:03 AM

    A huge improvement on the original...

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