I saw an art show at Muddy Waters in Burlington once a few years ago that was amazing. It was a series of pictures drawn by young children, ages 5-8, of everyday things: houses, trees, people, birds... whatever. These drawings were then meticulously copied and fully rendered by the artist of the show. So the little house and family and tree and sun in the child's picture, were fully realized in the artist's version, using all of the artist's skills to make the various elements as deep and rich and fully-rendered as the artist was capable of making them. The placement and relative sizes of the pictures' elements were exactly copied, however, so the resulting pieces of art were deeply surreal in appearance. The original drawings were displayed right next to the rendered paintings for instant comparison.

The show was very much like, but in some ways better than, this stuff.

It's the same basic idea, except this artist is using only child drawings of monsters and super heroes, and is adding a lot of his own elements and color schemes. The show at Muddy's was more faithful the the original drawing, and for that reason I think it was stronger. Still, these images are pretty cool.

via Boing Boing

UPDATE: The image link is broken and yesterday I saw a "bandwidth exceeded" note so I guess the site was getting hammered. They were Boing Boinged after all.