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.<\/p>\n
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<\/a> for more colorful, psychedelic makeovers of celebrities and famous characters. For now, here’s a couple of Nicky Barkla’s art works:<\/p>\n