I believe you’ve posted nine pearlescent, purply lavender hearts, with purple shadows, three light purple floral hearts, and five more floral hearts in a sort of darker purplish orchid color…. with a sixth barely in view.
There are also a lot of small lavender-purplish blossoms strewn about, with petals that turn morepurply near their yellow centers.
All on a purple background with deeper purple shadows.
This was about 15 years later. The little family had survived the tornado, but decided to move to Missouri, looking for less harsh conditions.
That meant they had to leave their farm in Kansas, and their spacious John Steuart Curry canvas, and move into a Thomas Hart Benton painting.
This turned out to be a mistake. The canvas, though newer, was smaller, though not by much, really. And as you can see, their new farm flooded horribly in the spring…
They barely got out before the wagon wheels could sink into the mud! They wanted to go back to Kansas, but by that time Steuart’s work had fallen into disfavor.
So they stayed with Benton, though they worried a bit, because his paintings became increasingly abstract.
It turned out that it didn’t affect his previous work, so they’re still there, the whole canvas having been airlifted to safety in a museum in North or South Carolina… Sorry, I already forgot which.
My grandmother used to say, “Three moves equals one fire.” Or so I’ve been told. She died when my dad was 14, after having 10 kids. He was the last, so one of his sisters took him in.
If you mean better than those girls and pizzas…. this is an actual painting, by a talented human artist, not an AI mishmash of bits of photos and other people’s ideas.
No comparison!
But maybe you mean something else.
It’s late and I’m slowing down 😁.
I like to credit him because his work is so widely stolen.
He’s a master of what he calls “metamorphic” painting, full of hidden images, that seen to transform into each other before your eyes.
So you find his works all over the web, and possibly in print, as well, presented as puzzles, without credit, and I’m sure without royalties, or even permission, since they don’t mention his name.
Looking for the title of this one, I saw it used as a quiz, purporting to tell something about your “style of falling in love” by what image you focused on first. Totally bogus, and with no hint that it was anybody’s art.
Today it’s also probably stolen by AI programs, to try to imitate his style.
Besides all that, a stroll through any fair will show you plates, prints, tapestries and small rugs with his artwork, from which I’m sure he makes not a penny… or a peso.
Last night i looked through months of saved images to see whether I had a previous solution to post, but didn’t find one, so i said a couple of years.
I thought I should have one, so later i looked further… I did it June 5th, 2023.
It had a slightly different border, but the puzzle was the same, and so was my solution.
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About how I feel half-way up the staircase. Isn’t COPD fun?
Speed bump.
I remember this guy; the traveling roadblock.
Droopy!
I think I used this one on a birthday card here or on Ballard Street
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Well, there’s no pizza and no face….
Probably cos this is by a real person…. Herbert Bohnert… who painted it in 1942, before they had AI and Internet memes.
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haven’t heard the P word in a long time
LOL!
😀
Do you miss it?
Let me help:
I believe you’ve posted nine pearlescent, purply lavender hearts, with purple shadows, three light purple floral hearts, and five more floral hearts in a sort of darker purplish orchid color…. with a sixth barely in view.
There are also a lot of small lavender-purplish blossoms strewn about, with petals that turn more purply near their yellow centers.
All on a purple background with deeper purple shadows.
You’re welcome.
AHEEEE!
Sounds like you just turned purplie with aggravation.
,..
Probably made a lot of guys want to enlist in the Air Force!
I enlisted in the USAF, but only because I didn’t care for the jungle (and getting shot at) all that much
hard to realize that this pretty young gal , if she’s still alive , is in her 90s
July 1943 was almost 82 years ago, believe it or not.
Also hard to believe a pilot, which it says she is, would be under 20. She could even be 30.
She’s 102 if she was 20, 107 if she was 25.
I looked her up last time, but I don’t remember her age.
Thomas Hart Benton
Didn’t they just survive a tornado?
Ah… very observant.
This was about 15 years later. The little family had survived the tornado, but decided to move to Missouri, looking for less harsh conditions.
That meant they had to leave their farm in Kansas, and their spacious John Steuart Curry canvas, and move into a Thomas Hart Benton painting.
This turned out to be a mistake. The canvas, though newer, was smaller, though not by much, really. And as you can see, their new farm flooded horribly in the spring…
They barely got out before the wagon wheels could sink into the mud! They wanted to go back to Kansas, but by that time Steuart’s work had fallen into disfavor.
So they stayed with Benton, though they worried a bit, because his paintings became increasingly abstract.
It turned out that it didn’t affect his previous work, so they’re still there, the whole canvas having been airlifted to safety in a museum in North or South Carolina… Sorry, I already forgot which.
My grandmother used to say, “Three moves equals one fire.” Or so I’ve been told. She died when my dad was 14, after having 10 kids. He was the last, so one of his sisters took him in.
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For a second i was wondering about the goose.
Um… I’m thinking one of us must need glasses.
The tail sticking uo on the left looked like a goose head. Not as much this morning.
it does!
On his left, no? Our right.
The tall black one on the right does look goose-ish, now that you say.
Going out for a drag, if they get excited!
Winnie loved cats
Smart man.
Very handy to have on a ship, where it was easy to get rats.
“Jennie” by Paul Gallico…
fished out of Lake Michigan
Not many in that good condition.
It must have been a really strong fishing line to be able to pull that thing in.
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I like that one much better.
Than?
If you mean better than those girls and pizzas…. this is an actual painting, by a talented human artist, not an AI mishmash of bits of photos and other people’s ideas.
No comparison!
But maybe you mean something else.
It’s late and I’m slowing down 😁.
“The Old Man and the River” by Octavio Ocampo.
I like to credit him because his work is so widely stolen.
He’s a master of what he calls “metamorphic” painting, full of hidden images, that seen to transform into each other before your eyes.
So you find his works all over the web, and possibly in print, as well, presented as puzzles, without credit, and I’m sure without royalties, or even permission, since they don’t mention his name.
Looking for the title of this one, I saw it used as a quiz, purporting to tell something about your “style of falling in love” by what image you focused on first. Totally bogus, and with no hint that it was anybody’s art.
Today it’s also probably stolen by AI programs, to try to imitate his style.
Besides all that, a stroll through any fair will show you plates, prints, tapestries and small rugs with his artwork, from which I’m sure he makes not a penny… or a peso.
Love this guy’s work. Was first introduced at a local Mexican restrauant decades hence.
find the butterfly
BUNNY!
Pretty sure we did this a couple of years ago… which is fine; that’s long enough to forget the solution.
But the reason I think so, is that I was annoyed by the butterfly, which reminded me that I’d been annoyed by it once before 😁.
What i mean is, it’s not the world’s best depiction of a butterfly…
Weeks.
Last night i looked through months of saved images to see whether I had a previous solution to post, but didn’t find one, so i said a couple of years.
I thought I should have one, so later i looked further… I did it June 5th, 2023.
It had a slightly different border, but the puzzle was the same, and so was my solution.
It hasn’t moved since last time.
Dodolf’s official answer (you’ll have to go full screen / hint…Susan is correct)
Now I’m trying to make out the word he uses….
You can tell it says “But when I do, I always do a ______ job.”
It doesn’t say “terrible”. It’s all in caps, and the first letter is pointed. I’m thinking it might say “marvelous”.
Pup is not aware of who is supposed to be in charge here….(shut down your sound / the music choice is terrible)
I love that the sheep seem to be encouraging her.
It looks kinda like a sheep puppy.
doncha like harmonicas?
When Claude has pie dripping off his face, he looks a little like Earl Pickles.
Or I guess Earl Pickles looks a bit like Claude covered in pie.
Claude, whenever he sees a red button.
Coffee break while building the CN Tower (Toronto 1970’s).
At least I’m pretty sure he’s wearing a harness!
He’s wearing a belt, but it doesn’t look like he’s clipped on anywhere. He has his right foot tucked around the other side of the upright beam.
From today’s London “Daily Mail.”
More than a little creepy.
Yuck.
Ran across this meme. All you insomniacs will relate.
Also from today’s “Daily Mail.”
My local paper noted today was his 91st birthday. Too late to pull the notice.
Sounds good, but that would mean trying to find parking at the embarcadero. Or going to the commercial beds up river.