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30 Thrift Store Paintings People Made Better By Adding Something Ridiculous

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Nate ArmbrusterByNate Armbruster

Thrifting is fun because you never know what you’ll find. A lot of people love to go thrifting for stuff they can refurbish or fix up, but I had no idea people did that with paintings.

These thrifty artists are touching up old artwork with their own creative additions, and it might be the coolest way to upgrade a thrift store find.

It almost makes me want to buy a painting and try this myself, but I know my “artistic addition” would probably lower the value to whatever I paid for the frame.

1. Clever Girls

Repainted landscape painting of a field with two dinosaurs and a person in the background.
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2. Finally Started Finishing My Bob Ross

Painting of a man with curly hair holding a paintbrush, mountain landscape background.
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3. Proud Of This One!

Painting of a forest with a river and a giant robot in the background.
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4. Lotr Added To A Thrifted Painting

Landscape painting of mountains, trees, and people by a river, held by a man with sunglasses.
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5. Cat Bombing, My Latest Thing. Didn’t Remember To Take A Before Picture But Think It’s Pretty Obvious What I Added

Repainted painting of a rural scene with a woman, goats, and a cat in the foreground.
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6. Dirty Dan And The Rustlers Of Hurtville

Painting of a character with a cheese head, cowboy hat, and bandana, with horses and a figure in the.
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7. Godzilla Re-Charcoaling On Etch

Repainted painting of Godzilla in a natural landscape with trees and mountains.
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8. Holy Grail Added To A Thrift Store Painting

Three children and a woman by a river with trees, one child holding a flag.
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9. Finished My Painting Of Krampus

Painting of a horned creature with a broom in a snowy landscape.
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10. This Sat At The Thrift Store For A While Before I Liberated It To Add Some Life And Death. It Is My First Repainting

Painting of a lavender field with a house, birds, and a cartoonish bull character.
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11. The Pumpkin Magician

Children gathered around a Halloween pumpkin with a witch hat, sparks flying.
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12. Pig Bomb

Painting of a cottage garden with a pig in the foreground, and a quote about kindness.
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13. Pizzagate (Done By My Friend, Hanging In My Kitchen)

Two children, one eating pizza, the other with a dog, in front of a pink wall.
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14. I Met A Really Talented Artist That You Might All Like, His Name Is Blase And He’s Got Quite A Great Universe!

Portrait of a man in a suit sitting in a chair with one leg crossed over the other.
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15. Le Chat Eiffel. Need To Stop Painting Cats

Painting of the Eiffel Tower with a cat in the foreground.
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16. War Of The Worlds Repaint

Two paintings of a street scene, one with a giant insect added in the second.
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17. My Husband Found A Thrifted Landscape That Matched His Computer Background. It Just Needed An At-At

Painting of an AT-AT from Star Wars in a landscape with mountains and deer.
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18. I Know Painting Furniture Is Un Popular In This Sub, But What About Painting On Thrifted Hand Bags? Saw This Purse At Gw And Just Felt It Needed Some Dugtrio!

Handbag with cartoon faces and tribal patterns, hanging in a room.
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19. Obligatory UFO

Repainted landscape with mountains, trees, lake, and UFO in sky.
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20. My First Repainting!

Colorful painting of insects, animals, and a waterfall on a hillside.
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21. A “Deathly Hallows” Repaint Attempt (Including Some Creative Liberty With The Flying Snitch) On A Thrift Store Sunse

Sunset over a winter forest with a tent and people by a river.
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22. Courage In Eggplant Suit

Painting of a potted plant with cartoonish bugs and a pig in a whimsical style.
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23. Added More Details To This Guy. I Think He’s Done Now

Child reading a book with a monster behind, in a wooden frame.
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24. Mr. Pickle’s Sphere Of Calamity

Painting of a forest with a cartoon hamster in a bubble in the sky.
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25. The Children – Before And After

Repainted painting of a boy holding a dog on the left and a baby Yoda on the right.
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26. Tossing My Hat In The Ring After Seeing All These Cool Peeping Cat Posts!

Vintage LIFE magazine cover from August 28, 1944, with a woman and a hole with a kitten.
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27. Star Wars Fan Art

Painting of a stormtrooper helmet with red markings, set against a seaside village background.
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28. Midnight Frolic

Painting of a skeleton riding a ghostly figure in a landscape with a sunset.
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29. Such A Sweet Little Lady

Painting of a young girl with tattoos on her arms and neck, wearing a brown dress.
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30. More From That Glorious Book “Transformations”

Comparison of a vintage black-and-white photo and a painted version of the same man as Wolverine.
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Nate Armbruster

Nate is a writer and stand-up comedian living in Chicago. He enjoys finding the internet’s funniest corners so you don’t have to.