The adventure begins.

archiemcphee:

San Francisco-based illustrator and designer Andy Stattmiller created two awesomely adorable sets of Star Wars Matryoshka dolls featuring characters from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. 

One set of nesting dolls features characters from the Rebel Alliance while the other features characters from the Galactic Empire. There are 7 hand-painted wooden dolls of steadily diminishing size in each set, with the largest doll measuring 8-inches tall and the smallest a wee 0.75-inches. 

Head over to Andy’s Flickr page to view more photos of the Star Wars nesting dolls.

[via Technabob]

archiemcphee:

Artist Hillary White (previously featured here) has created an extensive and completely awesome series of paintings, entitled Pop Reinterpretation, for which she beautifully recreates painting by the Old Masters depicting a wide variety of pop culture icons in place of the original subjects.

R2-D2 becomes Francois-Xavier Fabre’s Portrait Of A Man, Kermit the Frog becomes Frans Hals’ Portrait of a Young Woman, Optimus Prime becomes Anthony Van Dyck’s Self Portrait With Sunflower, and so on.

Hillary has painted so many of these wonderful portraits, it’s an almost unbearably awesome accomplishment. If you like these even half as much as we do, check out the entire Pop Reinterpretation gallery to see the rest.

[via HiConsumption]

It’s Pop Art Meets High Art on Geyser of Awesome!