These are paintings by Tom Laduke, and they were one of the initial inspirations for me to try to use the tracing paper to layer information in my current drawing. I believe I first saw these paintings on "The Flog" - an art blog thats updated like once every ten years. He takes these really desaturated photographic images from movies-I don't know if he paints them or prints them or what-and then paints on top of them in really pure colors. The surface paintings are usually fragments of old masterpieces... one that really struck a chord with me was a still from David Lynch's Blue Velvet with fragments of Bruegel's Return of the Hunters painted on the surface. Those two works have always been two of my absolute favorite works of art. Maybe his paintings are kind of formulaic or predictable, sometimes I feel like I can digest it all too quickly. But they are very beautiful and dreamy- more so when I don't recognize which movie or painting are being quoted, and just look at it as some landscape or interior from another world