“seeing the struggle and the support from the community made my work evolve to a concept that is personal to me. I continue to further my technique, and creativity in my field in order to paint a beautiful picture of a new world for those around me. Living in our society can be tough and most of the time we have to make the best of it. A wild imagination can take you so far, but at the end of the day we need to realize and observe the world around us. And the world around us is where I find my inspiration to paint. Colorful paintings that contain hints…
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Art by Holly Pilot
Holly Pilot creates designs heavily inspired by vintage children books with a strange surreal edge. “Recently I’ve been collecting children’s books – primarily Disney – and comic books from the 1970s, 80s and 90s. I then select images with interesting forms of textures. I’ll begin to intuitively compile them together digitally until I’ve created an atmosphere or narrative I’m satisfied with. I like to focus on the background imagery or details from the source material, abstracting the familiar,” See some selected works below:
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Exploding Popular Cartoons by artist Matt Gondek
Los Angeles based artist Matt Gondek creates playfully disturbing imagery incorporating iconic cartoon characters that appear to be exploding alongside an atomic bomb. characters include The Simpsons clan to Bugs Bunny, Futurama, the Pink Panther, Garfield and more. Prints in various forms are available at his shop Gondek Draws.
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Adventure Time Movie Confirmation
It’s officially been conformed that the beloved quirky cartoon series Adventure Time is set to have its movie debut with Warner Bros. Film producers include Chris McKay and Roy Lee, who are best known for their box office hit The Lego Movie also including involvement form series creator Pendleton Ward in writing and other aspects. Well known celebrities that will be voicing characters include George Takei, Pee-Wee Herman’s Paul Reubens, Neil Patrick Harris, and Andy Samberg.
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The Power Puff Girls Return in 2016, WHAT!?
WHAT! This generation of cartoons aren’t use to revivals and reboots. That’s why it’s great news that Cartoon Network has officially announced The Power Puff Girls return. It’s not as soon as we would like but hey, shush it’s better than nothing right? Do you think the series will be the same? Or will they make severe changes that could either go great or horrible. Now if they could only do this for Dexter s Lab and Courage the Cowardly Dog as well. I would die, somehow self combust with joy. What cartoons do you believe need to comeback?
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Rappers Turned Into Iconic Cartoons
Artist Zhi-Yun Zhang of Lubeck of Germany mashed up well known cartoons with current pop artists to create an entertaining visual set of images. The characters include:Zhang created (Pat) Rick Ross, DJ Khaled as Cartman, Miley Cyrus as a twerking Minnie Mouse, Milhouse substituted in Drake’s Nothing Was The Same album cover, A$AP Rocky as Stewie Griffin, Kanye West as Porky Pig, and Pharrell as Bart Simpson. References: behance.net and complexmag
