There Are Naked Women In My Bathroom!

And now, to rev up your Thanksgiving...

I found these nudes in a dumpster.  They hang in the main bathroom at 419 S. Taylor.  They are oil on canvas -- very much like REAL art!  I like the subtle colors and the impressionistic shapes.  Actually, I think they're pretty good considering how awful most amateur art is (my apologies to amateur artists everywhere!). 

Here are a couple of closer-ups so you can see them better (or, in case you're a pervert!). 

I think the artist gave up on this one when the face wouldn't come together.  But, somehow, it's rather intriguing in its borderline grotesqueness.  I'm always trying to figure out what the face was supposed to end up looking like!

This one has a tendency to look like slabs of flesh but, if you look deeper, the mirror images and the artist's figure and the easels in the background provide an interesting mental excursion.

To me, the sign of good art is the blending of unexpected colors in unexpected places into something that looks incredibly accurate.  If I were to try to paint flesh, I would use flesh tones.  This artist clearly knows more than I do because these flesh tones have patches of blue and purple and green and orange and it comes out looking like real skin! 

To me, these nudes provide interest for the eye but they also provide amusement for the brain!  Should I take them down when my very demure mother-in-law comes over?  Would she be just completely scandalized? What about my step-sons?  Do guests find them embarrassing?  Inspiring?  Mark sometimes takes them down when I've been away too long.  I guess that answers one of my questions!  Or maybe they're just ugly? 

What do YOU think?  Please leave me some comments!  I get lonely talking to myself!

The Bathroom

"After" pictures prove much more effective if they are preceeded by "before" pictures, don't you think? 

That said, here are before pictures of the bathroom at 419 S. Taylor.  In actuality, they are "after" pictures of the remodel a previous resident did on the bathroom.  They actually did a pretty good job.  It's sleek and clean and functional.  But it's been stripped of any vintage charm it might once have had.  They even covered over the window which is both a sin and a crime in my book!  I've decided to give them the benefit of the doubt about the remodel (but not about the window!) and to presume that it was a disaster not worth saving. 

Ooh!  Shelves!  I LOVE shelves!  So much potenial for stashing fun stuff!

I don't think the dog liked being locked in the bathroom!  What do you think?

This last picture is a a tease of an after picture -- all totally free items" sheet shower curtain, shower rod, shower curtain rings, toilet paper basket, oil painting on the wall. I am particularly pleased with the oil painting. It's an abstract nude in neutral tones that is actually quite good -- and it came from a dumpster WITH a companion painting that hangs on the opposite wall! The only problem is my mother-in-law can never use our bathroom because of them! She might keel over!

My apologies in general for the tease -- I'll have to take the rest of the "after" pictures the next time I'm in Enid!  Hopefully you'll find it worth the wait in the end!

And one more thing:  there's a miracle that occurs regularly in this bathroom.  Even when we don't have the water turned on, enough water bubbles up in the toilet that it is fully functional!  God works even through toilets sometimes!  He has blessed up with plumbing!