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Bouguereau Celebrates Sunglasses Day

Detail of Retro Fashion by Wiz on Freaking News. Click for full image (1300×1671) June 27 every year is known as Sunglasses Day. In celebration of the event, photoshop site Freaking News challenged digital artists to show that sunglasses were … Continue reading

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There’s A Tiger In My Bouguereau

Detail of Bouguereau Tiger by lilitiss on Photoshop Creative. Click for full image (764×1024) Animals don’t appear in many Bouguereau paintings, and tigers in none at all. As a matter of fact, Bouguereau may never have seen a tiger in … Continue reading

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Bouguereau Tries A Game Of Twister

Detail of itsa twister by hank101 on Worth1000. Click for full image (960×968) “What do the subjects of the great masterpieces do after the crowds leave the museum to unwind?” That’s the question photoshop site Worth1000 asked digital artists participating … Continue reading

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Bouguereau Robots Become Triple Winners In Photoshop Contest

Gold winner Douleur Damour by carlosnumbertwo. Click to view on Worth1000 In February 2010, photoshop site Worth1000 organized the eighth edition of their popular RoboRen contest. Digital artists were challenged to “take any classical work of art, and robotize it“. … Continue reading

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Team Bouguereau goes figure skating

Remastered Bouguereau girls on ice With the Winter Olympics in full swing, William Bouguereau has sent his own team to Vancouver. Three girls, a young bacchante and two bathing beauties, have trained for months and are now showing their talents … Continue reading

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Bouguereau is seeing ghosts – again

Angels’ Lullaby by aheadmon on Worth1000. Click for full image. Twice each year Worth1000 challenges digital artists to create a ghostly image in a classical work of art. The sixth edition of this GhostRen contest, in February 2010, drew 41 … Continue reading

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Happy Valentine's Day from William Bouguereau!

Valentine Engagement by Sassydeb on FreakingNews. Click for full image. The commercialization of Saint Valentine’s Day (14 February) may be fairly recent, but the holiday has been around since the 19th century, mostly in the USA and Britain. It’s unlikely … Continue reading

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A triple Bouguereau tribute to Heather Graham

Happy 40th birthday Heather Graham! American actress Heather Graham [wiki] celebrated her 40th birthday on January 29, 2010. She became known for her performance in Gus Van Sant’s 1989 Drugstore Cowboy and her role as Rollergirl in the 1997 film … Continue reading

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Bouguereau is having a ball

Detail of Fun at the Beach by mateusarc on Worth1000. Click for source. “What do the subjects of the great masterpieces do after the crowds leave the museum to unwind? Do they have keggers and party? Go play some pick-up … Continue reading

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Monsieur Bouguereau meets Mister Bean

Surprised by spitfire46 on FreakingNews. Click for full image. In January 2010, photoshop site FreakingNews celebrated Bean Day: Every once in a while, you come across a special day that just doesn’t seem to have any rhyme or reason. Bean … Continue reading

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