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I didn't make this. It's from Penny Arcade. |
When you find yourself creatively bankrupt, steal someone else's work.
(Do not actually ever do this)
Funny story: my great uncle was a professional con artist. I mean that in the most literal sense - he was both a professional conman and a professional artist. He was a very talented man, but for some reason he would always use other people's work as a base and add his own paintings to it. The weirdest example of this that he ever did was a painting of me in my childhood, wearing a blue button down shirt and taking care of a cow. If that sounds totally random to you, then you are not alone. First of all, I never wore fancy shirts if I could help it, and second of all, I actually hated cows as a kid for whatever reason. Even without taking this into account, the premise of the painting is strange. The reason for this? It wasn't originally a painting of me. We suspect that it was the unfinished painting of an old man, because the body is slightly disproportionate to the head and the hands have wrinkles that look like they belong on an older person. So, in essence, my uncle painted my head onto the body of an old farmer. For some reason. It looks very professional and well done, so he clearly put effort into it, but it's still really bizarre... on many levels.
There it is. Tell me that isn't super weird.
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