Vintage Film Stills Reimagined as Tiny Paintings by Ellen Surrey

I enjoy a good flick, and so I was real­ly excit­ed to see that Ellen Sur­rey was paint­ing these small illus­tra­tions based on film stills. The title and year are labeled at the bot­tom of each piece. So, if any of these paint­ings intrigue you, I’d encour­age you to watch the movie! I’ve nev­er heard of The Cat From Out­er Space, but I know that I need to see it.

Ellen writes about this project, stat­ing:

I watch a lot of movies, espe­cial­ly the clas­sic ones. Because I love the look of these movies so much I usu­al­ly take screen shots while I’m watch­ing. These screen shots make for great ref­er­ence but late­ly I feel as if I could be uti­liz­ing them so much more. Some­times I have a hard time decid­ing what to draw and paint when that cre­ative urge hits, so I thought I would start paint­ing my col­lec­tion of screen shots.

Each gouache paint­ing is small (3″ x 4″) and on piece of water­col­or paper.