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Nicky Barkla gives Celebrities a Crazy Color Makeover

Nicky Barkla is an artist from Melbourne, Australia, who enjoys giving famous faces a new look. Barkla’s favorite technique is adding an oily, melting effect to a photograph of a celebrity to create a mind-blowingly colorful and psychedelic portrait. Barkla has given color makeovers to celebrities like Johnny Depp, Albert Einstein, Gollum and Heath Ledger’s character The Joker.

Barkla’s colorful portraits are an unusual form of art; it is fan art but because it is highly stylized, each painting is also strangely unique to the artist. Barkla has a talent for taking a character and portraying its personality traits while adding her own colorful twist to its personality. You can visit Nicky Barkla on Deviantart for more colorful, psychedelic makeovers of celebrities and famous characters. For now, here’s a couple of Nicky Barkla’s art works:

A colorful and trippy makeover painting of Gollum by Nicky Barkla


A colorful fan art painting of Johnny Depp by Nicky Barkla


A colorful painting by Nicky Barkla called The Creature


A fan art painting of Spiderman with a colorful twist by Nicky Barkla


Albert Einstein gets a rainbow hairdo in this colorful fan art painting by Nicky Barkla


Darth Maul aint so scary in this colorful fan art painting by nicky Barkla


Darth Vader gets a trippy makeover in this colorful painting by Nicky Barkla


Doc from Back to the Future gets a colorful makeover in this fan art painting by Nicky Barkla


Edward Scissor Hands gets a colorful new personality in this painting by Nicky Barkla


Heath Ledger as the Joker, painted in psychedelic colors and patterns by Nicky Barkla


Lord Voldemort becomes a colorful character in this fan art painting by Nicky Barkla


The incredible hulk gets a new color scheme in this trippy fan art painting by Nicky Barkla


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