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[challenge entry] Couldn't get the noses right so I left them off. Still, it's a pretty good repair job, eh?

Bigger version on my blog.

From the Restore Art Badly challenge. See all 276 entries (closed)

(, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 13:50, archived)
# How do they..?
Oh never mind.

WOO
(, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 13:52, archived)
# I can smell the buns in the oven.
(, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 13:56, archived)
# Arts!
woo :D
(, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 13:58, archived)
# Ahh that damn painting. I think we studied it at college for a whole sodding term!
Once you see that he fucked up the foot on the left and repainted it, you can never unsee.
(, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 14:07, archived)
# Have you seen the actual painting?
It's tiny.
(, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 14:19, archived)
# Yeah, isnt it something daft like a4 sized?
I remember thinking how amazing all the details were.
(, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 15:38, archived)
# Isn't there a theory...
...that he used a lens and traced the projected image?
This also accounts for the size of the painting - it's something to do with a limitation introduced by the maximum size of decent lenses that they could make in those days.
Still a good painting though - I particularly like the reflection in the mirror in the background.
(, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 15:53, archived)
# I think some renaissance artists
used pinhole camera setups (camera obscura?) to sketch their sitters, so it's possible.
(, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 16:27, archived)
# Much better
at least they've got teeth now
(, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 14:08, archived)
# That dog
Looks like the dog in Labyrinth,
but without the eyebrows,
or the 'tache,
or the clothes

That dog doesn't Look like the dog in Labyrinth
(, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 14:15, archived)
# Sir Didymus!
(, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 14:27, archived)
# The dog makes it.
Top work.
(, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 14:24, archived)
# This is lovely!
(, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 14:36, archived)
# Utterly brilliant!!
*Click* and giggles :)
(, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 14:36, archived)
# hahahahahahaaa!
The doggie looks like my cat! *clicky*
(, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 14:47, archived)
# :D
(, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 15:28, archived)
# Fine work...
...have a [click].
(, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 15:54, archived)