Comments on: Nice paint job

By: Andrea Harris

Andrea Harris — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:42:03 +0000

When I was eighteen I worked as a cashier in a grocery store. Like most of the grocery stores in Florida this one had big plate glass windows in the front. Well, one day this station wagon pulls into the parking lot. In the back was a live, full-grown tiger.

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WANT! » Cold Fury — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:01:21 +0000

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By: Veeshir

Veeshir — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:57:13 +0000

A family by where I grew up had a Model T painted on each of the two garage doors on their old barn/garage.

It looked pretty good.

By: Can't hark my cry

Can't hark my cry — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:54:44 +0000

JuliaM–That was a giggle! I especially loved the last line:

“A police spokesman said: ‘No action was taken. We encourage people not to carry things that disturb other drivers.’”

God forbid the driving public should be disturbed. . .

But do you suppose the same principle would apply to Princess Bernie’s proposed garage door?

By: Nicole

Nicole — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:48:32 +0000

Secondhand Lions was an underappreciated movie. I loved it.

By: Princess Bernie

Princess Bernie — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:13:16 +0000

That is teh awesome. I’d like one for my garage door showing my doberman sitting and holding the severed leg of an intruder. Do you think the neighbors will mind?

And I agree, I think you can have one done for the tudor that is a trompe l’oeil of a quaint cottage. on the front of your quaint cottage.

By: JuliaM

JuliaM — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:42:41 +0000

“Spotted crossing a supermarket parking lot. I think I made a puddle.”

Ahhh, if you’d only called the police in utter panic, we could say you’ve finally ‘gone native’…

By: Carl

Carl — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:14:41 +0000

The paintings in the Painted Hall at Greenwich are very impressive. They were finished in 1727. Apparently, the artist, Sir James Thornhill, had trouble getting payment for the job, so he worked in a self-portrait showing him holding his hand out for the money

By: David Gillies

David Gillies — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:06:29 +0000

I love trompe l'oeil. If you and Uncle B get a chance to visit the Painted Hall at Greenwich Naval College, take it. There are some amazing examples there. My cousin had her wedding reception there. I couldn't tell you what we ate, but I remember the room vividly.

By: Can't hark my cry

Can't hark my cry — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:49:33 +0000

doesn’t really go with the whole “Tudor farmhouse” thing

Well, doesn’t that kinda depend on what the SUBJECT of the trompe-l’oeil painting is? I mean. . .a badger’s den? You could even do it with pictures from the badger whisperer’s archives. Or you could do an Elizabethan battle scene. . .or something intermediate between the 16th century and today. I mean, the possibilities are endless. And you could make it really, really tasteful.