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My interpretation of the stretching portraits seen in Disney's Haunted Mansion.Related content
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Thanks for that...and for the 
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These are brilliantly done and very clever. The level of detail considering the limitations of the medium of MS paint is even more impressive.
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Thank you for that...I really appreciate it.
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You should see my second set,the quartet I created.
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Will you be making more of your own Haunted Mansion stretch portraits?
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Probably not...doing a completely original quartet,I discovered just how difficult it can be.
Coming up with macabre-but-funny scenarios,that's the easy part.The trick is making them fit into that "format";remember,the top-third of the picture has to look like a typical 19th-century formal portrait,with absolutely no hint of what's below.I said it before,I'll say it again...Marc Davis really was a genius.
Thanks for the
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I still remember fist seeing these in the haunted mansion. Thanks for recapturing one of my childhood memories.
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Funny you should mention childhood memories---I was 12 when I first visited the Mansion;when I would describe the stretch paintings to others,I mistakenly described the young girl with the parasol as being barefoot on barbed wire---hence,my revision.
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