Touch up

[PaulandDeb]

An elderly Italian woman appears to have destroyed a valuable artwork after she took it upon herself to 'restore' the crumbling painting.
The image, painted by 19th-century artist Elías García Martínez, had reportedly been deteriorating for some time.
The woman in her 80s, a neighbour of the church in which the fresco is located, attempted to restore the painting 'without permission but with good intentions'.
But a donation from the artist's granddaughter was about to fix that when the neighbour got in first to have a crack at fixing it up.
The results were not quite as she expected, however.

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before after


http://au.news.yahoo.com/queensland/...uable-artwork/

[Freckleface]

Oh dear that's a bit sad isn't it

[PaulandDeb]

She meant well, poor old bugger

[Freckleface]

She didn't do too badly until she got to the face

[PaulandDeb]

The hairs good
In the reading it says she got stuck and did a runner, when she got out of her depth

[Freckleface]

That's just so funny - just like a little kid doing something wrong and then running away. I love it.

[AKA]

An uncanny resemblance mate.

[PaulandDeb]

You can imagine her in her little black number with her art hat on, assorted brushes (all from bunnings) a couple of match pot paints and away she went

[Moving 2 Melbourne]

Jee and I thought from the title someone had been touching you up.

[PaulandDeb]

Jee and I thought from the title someone had been touching you up.

I know a quite spot up in the hills