Hodgepodge

I was on YouTube and watching videos on everything from art/guitar building to DIY rhinoplasty when I looked in the 'related' column and saw "WORST art restoration fails" with this thumbnail
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Does anyone remember this? I thought it was sad at the time and wondered if I could do much better. I wasn't a very good artist and I'm still not an artist, but I am getting better. Anyway, I thought I'd take a shot and see how my attempt might compare. What say you?

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dunno

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scold your going to get hung out to dry you know that don't you grin
What, me worry....about your art project ? dunno grin
Not bad, right? I mean, it probably won't be hung on a wall at the Louvre or Guggenheim but...
not picture but you might get hung laugh laugh
I'll keep an eye out for torches and pitchforks!
wow
they'll be a coming laugh laugh
I will give you an "A" for effort.
it looks like the face of mad.......laugh
Faces of CS conversing
I think you only got the angle wrong. laugh

Better than the first restoration. thumbs up
What - me worry? It does look oddly familiar laugh is Mad magazine still going? I loved it as a kid
I do remember when that occurred laugh

It was some old woman in her 80s or something, possibly in Spain. She decided to 'fix' an ancient painting in her local church, and that was the result uh oh
Hola BDrawn wave

I tried my best to refresh my memory, but no, I don't remember. And I guess I am the only one here with short memory. blues
Hey, you better not "play" with an ancient stuff. You might be cursed. scold professor


grin
Yep, it's Mad magazine cover boy Alfred E. Neuman and I'm sorry if I sometimes assume WAY too much when it comes to people's awareness of American pop culture.

Molly, that's pretty much how I remember it. I thought it was sad because she meant well, but that didn't stop me from smiling. I mean, who really knows what Jesus looked like?

dunno
Hiya Kal! All's well that ends well. The botched painting became a tourist attraction! grin
Heyy.. I was just kidding. grin
I hoped so, Kal! I'm still adjusting to potential language/cultural barriers here. My apologies.
teddybear
BD, Jesus sure wasn't the white western looking version we see in most paintings.

Shock horror..he'd be Middle Eastern looking help
Accepted. blushing bouquet
Oscar Wilde said "all art is quite useless" (now we see why!) laugh
Hi there again.
It's always good to see new photos from time to time. thumbs up
Hey your new pic is super cute smitten and why Richard Dix? Don't mind me I am endlessly nosy laugh

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