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Pfft! I knew this one was going to be a challenge, but I couldn't resist giving it a bash. Apologies as usual to the original artist, in this case Arnold Böcklin. I think I need to apologise to Myfanwy too. Not her best look.

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An edited version of Plague, a painting Arnold Böcklin. The original shows Death riding on a bat-like winged creature who travels through a street in a medieval European town with people dying in the street. In this version the bat-like winged creature is now a slightly deformed knitted emotional support chicken called Myfanwy, and she is ridden by Friend, a simple drawn figure, wielding Death's scythe.

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@eclectech@things.uk · 4 weeks ago

#MyfanwyAndFriend #sillyScribbles

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@eclectech@things.uk · 4 weeks ago

"Myfanwy with Friend Playing the Fiddle"
With appropriate apologies to Arnold Böcklin

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An edited version of Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle by Arnold Böcklin. The original depicts a bearded Böcklin stalked by a skeleton personification of death playing a single-stringed violin. In this version Böcklin has been replaced with Myfanwy, a teal knitted emotional support chicken, and death has been replaced with Friend, a very simple black and white figure with a round white head and black eyes (no visible nose or mouth), and black scribbled limbs.

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@eclectech@things.uk · 4 weeks ago

"Myfanwy with Friend Playing the Fiddle"
With appropriate apologies to Arnold Böcklin

#MyfanwyAndFriend #sillyScribbles

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@eclectech@things.uk · 2 years ago

Ah. No last minute rush to the "no" option then 😆

So. Here you go. I feel the piece has drifted away from a portrayal of Apollo & Daphne or Orpheus & Eurydice & has drifted into a critique of the fashion world forcing hens into unreasonable body shapes. The level of squishing to get a rotund chicken into that dress 😮

And let's not get started on the stretching of wings required to achieve the embrace. smh

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An adaptation of The Kiss by Klimt. The original painting depicts a couple embracing, entwined in golden robes. The man's face is bent downward to press a kiss to the woman's cheek while his hands her face. She has one arm wrapped around his neck, the other resting on his hand, her face turned sideways to receive the kiss. In this version the man is replaced by Friend, a simple drawn figure, while the woman is a large teal and cream knitted chicken. I am putting this one down to experience.

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@eclectech@things.uk · 6 months ago

Vitruvian Chicken & Friend

Sometimes I have an idea and I know, deep down, that I should wait and do it properly but instead I let it burst out in a slap dash splat.

This is one of those ideas.

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@eclectech@things.uk · 9 months ago

Myfanwy as Flora, goddess of spring and flowers. Oh aye.

Apologies as appropriate to Rembrandt and Saskia.

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An adapted version of Saskia as Flora by Rembrandt, but in this version Saskia (his wife) has been replaced with Myfanwy (a teal knitted chicken). Representing the Roman goddess of spring and flowers, she is wearing an extravagant embroidered costume with long hanging sleeves and a floral headdress while carrying a staff decorated with leaves and flowers.

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@eclectech@things.uk · 5 months ago

Perhaps not practically perfect in *every* way, but I've not had time to make much recently & this was fun.

Thanks to @sheepnik for the idea. The responsibility, as ever, remains my own

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A mocked up poster for a knitted chicken based version of Mary Poppins called Myfanwy Poppins after its star, Myfanwy, the teal and cream knitted emotional support chicken. She takes centre stage, flying over a sunset sky holding her umbrella and carpet bag. She wears a red scarf and black hat with flowers on. Across the bottom are silhouetted rooftops with Friend, a simple drawn figure, standing on them holding a chimney sweep's brush. The text, in a curly yellow and red script, based off one of the 1960s film posters, reads Myfanwy Poppins.

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@eclectech@things.uk · last month

Me: Oooh, I haven't done a Myfanwy & Friend for a while. That would be a nice change. I could put the call out on Mastodon for suggested artworks, book covers or posters to parody.

Also me: I need to post a picture if I'm asking for suggestions for pictures.

I am aware this makes NO SENSE, however when I had a quick look for new films I found this monstrosity so, that's a thing.

Anyway, taking suggestions for new #MyfanwyAndFriend pics below. Thanks!

A parody of the billboard poster for the Melania documentary film that's released in a few days, with matching font & monochrome styling.

Copy changes:
- A NEW FILM has been changed to A NEW BIT OF NONSENSE.
- MELANIA has been changed to MYFANWY (I've left the TWENTY DAYS TO HISTORY sub below that)
- EXCLUSIVELY IN THEATERS has been changed to EXCLUSIVELY ONLINE
- The date has been changed from JANUARY 30 (when the film is released) to JANUARY 26 (today).

Image changes:
- The image of Melania sitting in the chair has been changed to a striped knitted chicken sitting in the chair. — A parody of the billboard poster for the Melania documentary film that's released in a few days, with matching font & monochrome styling. Copy changes: - A NEW FILM has been changed to A NEW BIT OF NONSENSE. - MELANIA has been changed to MYFANWY (I've left the TWENTY DAYS TO HISTORY sub below that) - EXCLUSIVELY IN THEATERS has been changed to EXCLUSIVELY ONLINE - The date has been changed from JANUARY 30 (when the film is released) to JANUARY 26 (today). Image changes: - The image of Melania sitting in the chair has been changed to a striped knitted chicken sitting in the chair.

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@eclectech@things.uk · last month

Me: Oooh, I haven't done a Myfanwy & Friend for a while. That would be a nice change. I could put the call out on Mastodon for suggested artworks, book covers or posters to parody.

Also me: I need to post a picture if I'm asking for suggestions for pictures.

I am aware this makes NO SENSE, however when I had a quick look for new films I found this monstrosity so, that's a thing.

Anyway, taking suggestions for new #MyfanwyAndFriend pics below. Thanks!