“I was, in a sense, working with another painter who was completely unaware of our collaboration. From that point on, I started looking for empty landscapes to “finish” rather than any cheap painting I could whiteout with gesso.”
Artist Chris McMahon has come up with an ingenious way to turn faded, bland flea market landscape paintings into clever new works of art. McMahon buys outdated secondhand paintings (the kind you’d find hanging on the wall of a Motel 6) and transforms them by simply adding a friendly monster to the scene. Sometimes scary, sometimes quirky, his ‘Involuntary Collaborations’ are playful works sure to make you chuckle.
Read more: Involuntary Collaborations: Bland Landscape Paintings Turned Into Epic Monster-Filled Scenes | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World
