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How to be a very colorful Green!

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Take a simple painting from a thrift store and change it into something way more fun!

I always feel a little bit guilty obliterating someone else's artistic endeavor.
But that feeling always passes once I get going!
How fun is that? 
 A collaborative effort with an unknown artist.

Here is a batch of paintings to re-purpose!

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Before: abstract scene

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After: clouds obscuring abstract scene

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After: this has shadows of a man and a path...

Before: screen printed bridge

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After: clouds and fields

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This turned out kinda fun!
The cables on the bridge became subtle lines of sunshine in the clouds and the bottom of the bridge made some little mounds of hay in a field.
I would like to say I did that all on purpose.
I think my right brain knew it all along.
Left brain is still trying to analyze it.
:)