Die Antwoord velvet painting
 
Today I have pulled together a post that features a pretty solid collection of highly desirable velvet paintings from a cast of characters that runs the gamut from pop culture phenoms such as Weekly World News cave-dwelling poster child, Bat Boy, to the bad-ass South African duo, Die Antwoord. How’s that sound to ya’?
 

Divine (as Babs Johnson in Pink Flamingos)
 
Most of the paintings I’ve featured can be had for a couple of hundred bucks or so. Could there possibly be anything cooler than a slightly inception-esque velvet painting of the Velvet Underground’s Lou Reed by artist Diane Bombshelter? Probably not. But I’ll let you dear DM readers be the judge of that.

If while scrolling through this post you find the next thing you never knew you couldn’t live without, most (with the exception of Lou Reed and Morrissey) can be obtained by way of Ebay or Etsy.
 

Lou Reed black velvet painting by Diane Bombshelter
 

Bat Boy
 

Robin Williams (RIP) as Mork (from the TV series Mork & Mindy)
 

The great Tony Award winning actor, Charles Nelson Reilly
 

Steve Buscemi velvet painting by Portland, Oregon artist, Chris Henry
 

Morrissey in a priest collar velvet painting by Velvet Geek (artist Bruce White)
 

Lee Van Cleef velvet painting (based on his role as “Angel Eyes” in the film, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly)
 

A Sleestack from the TV show, Land of the Lost
 

Cheech and Chong
 

Spongebob’s velvet painting riff on the famous 1963 work by artist René Magritte “Son of Man”
 

The Devil surrounded by his many vices
 

Carrie (Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein) and Fred (SNL alumnus, actor and musician, Fred Armisen) from the TV show, Portlandia velvet painting by Gil Corral
 

American politician and gay rights activist, Harvey Milk
 

The Three Stooges
 

The Dude “Abide” (played by Jeff Bridges in the The Big Lebowski)

Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Republicans painted on Tijuana Black Velvet