One of my favorite American paintings is American Gothic. I’ve asked a couple of people to mimic that pose for me. Here are the results (and the original at the end).
And here’s the inspiration:
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The one with the pop (soda) amuses me. Good choices, Nancy.
janet
Thanks!
Cute! 🙂
Thanks, Linda!
Ha ha! The Gatorade is pretty funny.
They’re a great couple with very a very active senses of humor. Hanks!
Lovely! 🙂
Thanks, Dina!
I love this! Straight away before I read anything I could tell from the lead picture that the art it was imitating was American Gothic – one of my favourite pictures! 🙂 These are fantastic!
Thanks! I was glad that both couples were good with the humor of the idea. They were great models. 😃
They look serious, I wonder what has happening in their lives. Good one.
Oh good. They’re both actually fun and outgoing couples. They were really good sports about this idea. Thanks!
No, no I was talking about the couple in the painting 🙂
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Very cool Nancy.
Thank y, Raewyn!
LOL on the soda bottles!! Fun idea for the challenge.
Thanks, Tina. They were just holding them and it worked out great. 😀
Great photos! Your subjects look appropriately downtrodden and beat down, just kidding. Did you have to tell them about the painting, or show it to them first?
Thanks! They all knew about the painting already, so I just mentioned it, and they knew what to do. 😀
Nice choice Nancy. The last one is very amusing.
Thanks, Indira!