Pickles by Brian Crane for October 05, 2019

I wonder how Opal’s finished work will look like if she chose different colors on different numbers.

It’s autumn so leaves can be different colors.

I call this one “President Emmett Kelly with Churchill and Stalin at Malta.”

The fire in Opals heart is still burning as hot as ever to do stuff like that!

That’s showing them, Opal!!! :D :D :D

Paint by numbers kits are still available?

I painted something by number once. It was about as ugly as anything I’d ever done. But better (sort of) than what I could have done free-hand. Not being abysmally stupid, I decided to do something else with my time.

During my “anarchist” days, I used to color outside the lines… third grade straightened me up…

“SCREAM”!

Opal Picasso?

Opal, a true trailblazer in the artistic world!

They still sell those?

Born to daub.

So Opal you went to Woodstock …. how was it ?

They might have some fun if she used Earl as a model for “Retired Adonis”.

Oh, Opal! You are SUCH a wild woman! LOL!

I was about 19 or 20 before I realized that if I blurred the lines between segment, those paint-by-number things looked more real and less . . .structured. . .I know, I know. . .slow learner . . .but we didn’t have ANY art in school when I was a kid . . . and you’d go to hell if you colored outside the lines. . .have got some of Sue Coccia’s coloring books now . . . watercolor pencils. . .very kewl. . .

Woah! Living on the wild side, isn’t she?

I wonder if she reads music this way. G? I think I’ll play C sharp instead.

Wow! Opal’s a socialist! (kidding)

That’ll show em!!!! And while you are at it have some rattlesnake chili!!

But then you run out of one color and have too much of the other.. Being a rebel leads to complications.

So, basically she’s Warhol………

Completely scramble the corresponding colors and numbers. Probably more fun to do digitally

“And sometimes I don’t stay in the lines!”

Opal, nolo contendere to me, I can’t tell the difference.

hahaha! good one!

Venus Paradise paint by numbers

Original!