An elderly woman decides to restore a worn-out religious painting by herself.

An elderly woman, that claimed having "good intentions" decided, without asking for permission, to try to fix a damaged fresco; Ecce Homo, painted on the 19th century by Elías García Martínez; located at the walls of the church of Santuario de Misericordia.

After finishing such attempt and seeing the results, the woman immediately ran to the authorities and confessed.



Seems like hell is really "full of good intentions", after all. LOL.
*Sorry for any mistakes up there.

Source: There's a spanish article on El País journal page: http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2012/0...81914.html

Holy pomegranate that is funny.

I read the title as "An elderly woman decides to restore a worn-out religious by painting herself" and expected to see some scary, wrinkly body art. I came in and was truly entertained. LOL.

I'm having a hard time understanding how the woman managed to so thoroughly overestimate her own skills. The only reason I can imagine is that the woman was suffering from dementia or something, but the article didn't seem to say anything about that when I skimmed over it.

This is why there are people in the profession of art restoration.

it's bigfoot!

i was half expecting a comically large black mustache to be on it.

This is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

I fucking lost it when I scrolled down and saw the picture.

It's a lion!

Im an art major and I approve of this.

This is grade A stuff right here. LOL

And this is why the elderly should not receive cheaper car insurance.

Just kidding. But really, what the hell, woman.

my sides were not prepared for this

English Article

To make matters worse, Spain's Centro de Estudios Borjanos, which works to preserve artwork, had received a donation from Elias Garcia Martinez's granddaughter which they had planned to spend on restoring the damaged fresco.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z24INY1b6P

Also, relevant:
[video=youtube_share;XZaspo_g4BU]http://youtu.be/XZaspo_g4BU[/video]

She's prob going to try being a tattoo artist next.

I feel so bad for her.

Courtesy of SA.

I thought it looked familiar.