{"id":406,"date":"2008-03-07T08:09:01","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T12:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=406"},"modified":"2008-02-27T20:19:20","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T00:19:20","slug":"the-monster-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"The Monster Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/davedevrie.thumbnail.jpg' class='contentimg' alt='Dave Devrie Painting' \/>Artist Dave Devrie has an unusual sideline: Converting small children&#8217;s doodles into amazingly creepy oil paintings.  There are several examples on his site, plus he&#8217;s published a <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Monster-Engine-Dave-Devries\/dp\/0976833808\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;qid=1204157751&#038;sr=8-1\">book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s surprising how evocative and disturbing the kids&#8217; drawings become when translated into oils.  Childishly out-of-scale proportions and missing features suddenly seem ominous and threatening.<\/p>\n<p>I may never look at Shadowboy&#8217;s scribbles the same way again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themonsterengine.com\/\">Link<\/a> <I>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/halloweenhotlist.blogspot.com\/\">Halloween Hotlist<\/a>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Dave Devrie has an unusual sideline: Converting small children&#8217;s doodles into amazingly creepy oil paintings. There are several examples on his site, plus he&#8217;s published a book. It&#8217;s surprising how evocative and disturbing the kids&#8217; drawings become when translated into oils. Childishly out-of-scale proportions and missing features suddenly seem ominous and threatening. I may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}