Okay, that was pretty funny.

That doesn't even look human anymore.

suziequzie: That doesn't even look human anymore.

Yeah, she really brought out His Divine Nature!

Bless her heart.

She was undoubtedly schooled by a master with heavy Picasso influences. And fur.

Ecce Eskimo.

She meant well, anyway

WhyteRaven74: reminds me of this

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lol!

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Damn you! Just caught the end of that. Was going to post it.

Looks shopped. I can tell by some of the pixels.

/Bob Ross is spinning in his "happy little grave".

"At first I was like... But then I LOLed" 

/this is why we can't have nice things

Oh god.... I can't stop laughing. I'm trying to imagine the panic that must have been going through her head when she realized things were going horribly wrong. I literally have tears rolling down my cheeks I'm laughing so hard.

Lol...

From "My God, why hast thou forsaken me?" to "I see what you did there..."

I have to bookmark this for my 86 year old artist mother. She will laugh.

Yogimus: I don't see what the issue is... that looks exactly like a piece of toast.

Yeah, but "Father, Son and Holy Toast" is generally taken to be a misprint.

Hey now....it sorta looks like a lion.

Really, whoever was storing it was destroying it far more effectively than this old woman ever could. In two years it went from almost 100% to big pieces flaked off. It wasn't being taken care of anyway, might as well make Happy Tree Time with it.

Why did she give him a labia for a mouth?

Cpl.D: digitalrain: From "My God, why hast thou forsaken me?" to "I see what you did there..."

Oh my god. First time in maybe fifteen years I've snorted burning hot coffee out of my nose.

+1, would scald sinuses again

Sorry 'bout that :)

What did you do to the fresco?

OMG!

SockMonkeyHolocaust: Really, whoever was storing it was destroying it far more effectively than this old woman ever could. In two years it went from almost 100% to big pieces flaked off. It wasn't being taken care of anyway, might as well make Happy Tree Time with it.

That was the big mystery for me, too. How the hell did it deteriorate like that in only two years?

I'd imagine that this would be one of those things that would be impossible to fix or restore back. If it was painted on canvas or wood, they can just remove the paint. But since frescos are painted on wet plaster, I can't imagine them removing the old woman's paint without taking off the already fragile plaster underneath it.

DrBenway: SockMonkeyHolocaust: Really, whoever was storing it was destroying it far more effectively than this old woman ever could. In two years it went from almost 100% to big pieces flaked off. It wasn't being taken care of anyway, might as well make Happy Tree Time with it.

That was the big mystery for me, too. How the hell did it deteriorate like that in only two years?

The environmental conditions may have changed. I work with books and manuscripts stored in environmentally controlled stacks. There are thermohygrographs monitoring the humidity. There's low light and the room is kept at a cool temperature. The gallery attached to my library has similar controls. A fresco in a public building undergoes a great deal of environmental stress and over time chemical in the paint and the plaster can leach out, causing damage. This can be exacerbated by moving a heater underneath it, or keeping a window open, for example or just the relentless march of time.

You see, grandma, this is what happens when you try to work from memory!

GreenAdder:

That was the first thing I thought of too

Yogimus: I don't see what the issue is... that looks exactly like a piece of toast.

Oh god. Just when I stopped laughing I come back in and check the thread and now I'm busting up again. This is the funniest thing I've seen in ages.

Thank you everyone, now I have to explain to everyone at work why I'm crying.

/It's a liger.

offmymeds: Jesus weptwarped.

DrBenway: SockMonkeyHolocaust: Really, whoever was storing it was destroying it far more effectively than this old woman ever could. In two years it went from almost 100% to big pieces flaked off. It wasn't being taken care of anyway, might as well make Happy Tree Time with it.

That was the big mystery for me, too. How the hell did it deteriorate like that in only two years?

It looks like the deterioration was likely her fault too. She saw it looked bad and then started trying to "fix" it herself, probably by cleaning it with something caustic. So then she realizes that isn't working and decides to paint it back.

Also, I cannot look at that picture without getting a bad case of the giggles. That thing is hilarious. Terrible she destroyed a work of art, but the result is like a real life Mr. Bean gag.

just let a guy off on a ticket, started chuckling again.

magnificent posts here

Jebus :D

Its one of those terrible but good intentioned, priceless, but unfixable things that happen in life when the only sane response is bewilderment and laughter (and a good "don't do it again!", whilst handing her a blank canvas ;)

There's an Italian film from 1976 called La case dalle finestre che ridono, The House with the Laughing Windows, and its main character is a man who is working on restoring a fresco of St. Sebastian located in a church near Ferrara. I think this artist must've watched the film, because I think I see where she intended her Jesus portrait to go:

Haunting; familiar, yet, I can't seem to place it.

I do love how the mouth's perspective is as if the face is completely looking forward.

Protip: if you can't master perspective, don't paint.

 

MS Paint. Laughter OL

propasaurus: Bless her heart.

Came here to say this.

The old girl probably feeds stray cats too.

tarkin1: Wasn't this the ending of the Mr. Bean movie?

To think this all could have been avoided if the elderly woman had simply liked the comedy stylings of Rowan Atkinson

The title of this work is "Ecce Homo"

The first verse of the choral opening of the Mr Bean show is Ecce homo qui est faba 

Coincidence?

Peaceboy: Ecce Homo?  
 
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Look man . . . .

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Thank you so very, very much.

Man... I was just on Cake Wrecks, reading the newest "Here's the picture I gave them/here's the cake that was delivered" howlers. This wins.

It's not as good as her earlier restoration of Raphael's "Crucifixion."

I just hope that one of those artists who create life-life renditions of cartoon characters, like Homer Simpson or Popeye, does a rendition of this work of art.

moonage daydream: Larva Lump: Hmm. Thought there would've been a shooped whoop by now. Ah, well. The day is young.

"Shooped whoop"?
I love it when newbs try to use internet slang.

The Lord is a monkey?