--- title: Incredibly Colorful Art Created From Found Objects description: Jane Perkins uses odds and ends to recreate famous portraits canonical: https://time.com/3501858/incredibly-colorful-art-found-objects/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-13T15:29:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:07:27.125Z article:section: Ideas og:title: See This Incredible Colorful Art Created From Found Objects og:description: Jane Perkins uses odds and ends to recreate famous portraits og:url: https://time.com/3501858/incredibly-colorful-art-found-objects/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb6188e4b989b6942/698760480b72e336ca6dafab/plastic-classics-found-objects-famous-portraits-jane-perkins-9-650x638.jpg?branch=production&width=650&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 650 og:image:height: 366 og:image:alt: Pink Marilyn, after Warhol og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See This Incredible Colorful Art Created From Found Objects twitter:description: Jane Perkins uses odds and ends to recreate famous portraits twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb6188e4b989b6942/698760480b72e336ca6dafab/plastic-classics-found-objects-famous-portraits-jane-perkins-9-650x638.jpg?branch=production&width=650&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See This Incredible Colorful Art Created From Found Objects > Sponsored content. 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Instead of using paint or pencils, Perkins uses anything she can find to recreate these masterpieces, including toys, shells, buttons, beads, jewelry, curtain hooks and springs. No extra color is added into the artworks either—everything you see in her work is used exactly as found, which is quite an amazing feat. Perkins says impressionist paintings are the perfect inspiration for her work since they need to be viewed in two ways: up close and from a distance. Since Jane Perkins started making these works of art back in 2008, she’s found representation, showcased her work in galleries, and sold her work to buyers in London, New York and Singapore. Not a bad living for using odds and ends from around the house! (via [Blue Bower Bird](http://www.bluebowerbird.co.uk/plastic1.htm))  Bored Cherub; detail from Sistine Madonna, after Raphael Jane Perkins  Girl with a Pearl Earring, after Vermeer Jane Perkins  Mona Lisa, after Da Vinci Jane Perkins  Einstein Jane Perkins  The Afghan Girl, from a photograph by Steve McCurry Jane Perkins  Pink Marilyn, after Warhol Jane Perkins  Sunflowers, after Van Gogh Jane Perkins ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3501858/incredibly-colorful-art-found-objects/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3501858/incredibly-colorful-art-found-objects/"},"headline":"See This Incredible Colorful Art Created From Found Objects","datePublished":"2014-10-13T15:29:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:07:27.125Z","description":"Jane Perkins uses odds and ends to recreate famous portraits","url":"https://time.com/3501858/incredibly-colorful-art-found-objects/","keywords":["Fine Art","Art"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb6188e4b989b6942/698760480b72e336ca6dafab/plastic-classics-found-objects-famous-portraits-jane-perkins-9-650x638.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rachel Oakley / Lost at E Minor"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb6188e4b989b6942/698760480b72e336ca6dafab/plastic-classics-found-objects-famous-portraits-jane-perkins-9-650x638.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Pink Marilyn, after Warhol","caption":"Pink Marilyn, after Warhol","creditText":"Jane Perkins","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/fine-art/","name":"Fine Art"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3501858/incredibly-colorful-art-found-objects/","name":"See This Incredible Colorful Art Created From Found Objects"}}]}] ```