PICASSOS and Van Goghs these paintings are not – but their creators are famous for reasons other than art.
After Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visited the Busy Bees nursery in Harrogate, North Yorks, and knocked up a pic of a bee that looked more like a duck, here Claire Dunwell and Alex Lloyd curate other celebs’ efforts at putting brush to canvas and challenge you to guess from our clues who did what.
From the rather bloody good blackbird and marvellous mountain snowscape, to jeepers peepers sunglasses, blooming marvellous flowers, a super-snog and, well, that black-and-white squiggly business, you have your work cut out.
- Answers below.
1.
COMIC is playing it for laughs with the sunglasses in this self-portrait but is no ordinary Joe when it comes to colour sense.
2.
CLASS act, the Bond girl at work here. Her pic made those lillies live but then maybe she let ’em die.
3.
COULD it be Klosters? This snowscape is royally good. One must be pleased with One’s work. Shadows are the crowning glory.
4.
LIPS look too good to Kiss but we always thought the artist more of a tongue man.
5.
LOVE Me Do, this pair seem to be saying when not eating each other’s face. Oh, artist’s name rhymes with smacker.
6.
SPECSY, beardy TV comic famed as part of a double act is noted for his art – and here’s why.
7.
SINGER who produced this is loving, er, intricate angles instead, but is maybe not quite top of the paint pots.
Answers
1) Joe Lycett, 2) Jane Seymour, 3) King Charles, 4) Gene Simmons, 5) Paul McCartney, 6) Jim Moir (Vic Reeves), 7) Robbie Williams