Famous portraits as mice


Alan F Beck paints watercolors of mice posed and modelled on classic and famous portraits -- including wonderful versions of Poe, Asimov, and Frankenstein's Monster as mice. Saw some of these last weekend at Philcon and was very amused -- so much so that I couldn't stop thinking of them and just bought a Poe one for Poesy's room (she's a big mouse nut, and has a stuffed mouse ["Chairman Mouse"] that goes everywhere with her).

Classical Mouse Portrait Gallery

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I like the muttonchops on the Asimov one. "Mousy the Vamcat Slayer" is great too.

A moust-have for the Mus-fancier.

Yeah. Sorry.

I missed the art show. I moused the art show.

(c) Alan F. Beck.

Surprisingly recognisable, actually - picked the Asimov one immediately, without reading the text.

I saw these at Worldcon back in August. Did you see them there as well Cory?

I'm a bit disappointed to be honest; I was expecting the "Maus" reference by comment #2 at the latest :-)

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