Artist David Irvine of theGnarled Branchmakes all variety of of interesting graphics , like painted upcycled vinyl radical criminal record , carving , and even puppetry . He also find old thrift entrepot paintings and add his own unique touch to the landscape . These remixed picture sport papa civilisation eccentric , beast , and creatures you ’ve seen before — just not like this .
The undertaking take off years ago when Irvine was a struggling artist . He would frequent parsimony stores for old , cast away paintings he could habituate for art supply . He would reprocess old figure and paint over canvas that would otherwise be give away . Irvine first got the estimate to use the pre - existing art after finding a special landscape painting on one of his trips .
" One piece I get along across at a K sale was a waterscape and for some reason I had a imaginativeness of two reapers standing on the shoring play with a beach ball , " he explained in an atomic number 99 - mail . " I paint in this imaginativeness and posted it online where it sold immediately and generated a big reply — I sleep together at that here and now I had to start a series of redirect painting along with the other types of nontextual matter that I do . "
Irvine is careful to honour the original art and creative person ( as much as one can when repurposing a piece ) , and never paint over signatures . He explain :
He also tries to avoid cleaner , prissy pieces that might still be being purchased and savor . Instead , Irvine depend for worn and broken graphics that he can breathe new life story into . you may check out more of his study onFacebookandEtsy .
All image courtesy of David Irvine .
