Casual Observer

Endeavour Morse (version 2):

Loyalty - Briton Rivière - the dog is Morse at Thursday. (And also he’s really loyal to Peter, that’s not going unmentioned)

Cassandra - Evelyn de Morgan - you can pry Morse/Cassandra parallels out of my cold dead hands, it’s staying in version two

Giant Peacock Moth - Vincent Van Gogh - it matches Peter and quite honestly I just love it

French novels and rose - Vincent Van Gogh - books innit

Jimson Weed - Georgia O’Keeffe - it’s one of the things he gets drugged with in Arcadia (the fact it matches Peter is a coincidence, I just really like the other Jimson weed painting by her)

Farm Garden with Sunflowers- Gustav Klimt - it matches Peter

Orpheus glances back at Eurydice - Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein Stub - tell me Morse wouldn’t go to the underworld for someone

The Lady of Shalott - John William Waterhouse - it’s what he reads to Pamela in Girl

Water lilies - Claude Monet - It matches the water lilies in Peter’s and frankly I want to eat it, it’s so beautiful

The Triumph of Bacchus/The Drinkers - Morse is Bacchus because alcohol, women, and theatre.

Garden with Weeping Willow - Vincent Van Gogh - again, it matches Peter

The Dog - Francisco Goya - it was in version 1 and I stand by him being slightly pathetic dog shaped

Peter Jakes (version 2):

This is pure self-indulgence because I wanted a green version as a phone background. If you want actual symbolism look at the original version. There are however occasional reasons in here

Great Peacock Moth - Vincent Van Gogh

Princes Dock, Hull - John Atkinson Grimshaw

Sunflower - Gustav Klimt - matches Morse

Stormy Sea at Night - Ivan Aivazovsky

Cassandra - Frederick Sandys - YOU CAN PRY THE CASSANDRA/PETER COMPARISONS OUT OF MY COLD DEAD HANDS. “None of them could see it. Only me” HE IS SO CASSANDRA.

The Water Lily Pond - Claude Monet

Emerald - Alphonse Mucha

HMS 'Erebus' passing through the chain of bergs, 1842 - Richard Brydges Beechey

Untitled (tree) - Zdzisław Beksiński

Pope (1958) - Francis Bacon

Jimson Weed - Georgia O’Keeffe - it matches Morse and I really like the colour

Bacchus - Sergey Solomko

Weeping Willow - Claude Monet - again, matches Morse

Fred Thursday:

Olive Trees - Vincent Van Gogh - he’s green and blue. It’s green and blue. Sorted.

The Treachery of Images - René Magritte - he smokes a pipe and honestly I think he’d find this painting quite amusing

Water lilies - Claude Monet - he feels quite blue and I thought it was a really nice colour

The Thames by Moonlight with Southwark Bridge, London - John Atkinson Grimshaw - before he moved to Oxford he was a police officer in London (and also green)

Untitled (soldier) - Zdzisław Beksiński - its blue and green again, but also he fought in the war

A dog and her puppies - Henriëtte Ronner-Knip - Thursday putting up with Morse and Peter’s bullshit

Blue and Green Music - Georgia O’Keeffe - blue and green again

Italian Girl with Flowers - Joaquin Sorolla - he’s not an Italian girl, but it fits with what we know about him serving in Italy during the war

Water-Lilies - Claude Monet - blue.

Blue Landscape - Paul Cézanne - blue again

Green, Blue, Green - Mark Rothko - Green and blue again innit

The Port of Rotterdam - Maximilien Luce - blue again, what a surprise

Between the Waves - Ivan Aivazovsky - Blue once again!

Poppies - John Singer Sargent - yes, green, but also the war again

Reginald Bright:

Tiger in a tropical storm/Surprise! - Henri Rousseau - Tiger innit

Sharks - Utagawa Kuniyoshi - I just liked it and it felt Bright

Ferryboat At Night - Louis Michel Eilshemius - deep blue grey is so him

Wrath of the Seas - Ivan Aivazovsky - it just vibes, he seems quite grey/deep blue

Cameret, Moonlight and Fishing Boats - Maximilien Luce - deep blues are so him

The Port of Le Havre - Claude Monet - dark blue again

Starry Night - Edvard Munch - Again. Blue.

Architecture in the Moonlight - René Magritte - Blue. Yeah.

Man in Blue VI - Francis Bacon - it’s just so him

Oak Fractured by a Lightning - Maxim Vorobiev - again, the colours, but also it was an allegory for the artist’s wife’s death. So.

Starry Night Over the Rhône - Vincent Van Gogh - again he feels very deep blue

American White Pelican - John James Audubon - “if the pelican can, then so can you!”

At Close of Day - Maxfield Parrish - blue again!

Joan Thursday:

The Sun - Edvard Munch - I liked the idea of Sun/moon Joan/Shirley and I thought it was so pretty

Carnation - Alphonse Mucha - It looks like her, and she matches Shirley

Water-Lily Pond, Symphony in Rose - Claude Monet - specifically she matches Shirley, but honestly they all have water lilies so. Take your pick I guess

Host, Autumn - Bror Lindh - again, pink, it just feels so her

Pink Peach Tree in Blossom (Reminiscence of Mauve) - Vincent Van Gogh - she’s so pinks and pale blues/teals. I’m in love with her turquoise coat. It’s perfect.

The Flapper - F. X. Leyendecker - it just vibes so much

White Night - Edvard Munch - again with the teal

Pink Camellias - Georgia O’Keeffe - it’s pink again (and matches Shirley again)

Moonlight/Moonlit landscape - Bror Lindh - it’s the right colours for her again

Water Lilies - Claude Monet - see above.

The Roses of Heliogabalus - Lawrence Alma-Tadema - pink again, but Romans this time

Wheatfield with Cypresses - Again, very pale blue to me, and also she matches Jim and Shirley

Shirley Trewlove:

Water lilies - Claude Monet - she’s so pinks and yellows to me and it felt right

Blossoming Almond Branch in a Glass - Vincent Van Gogh - it’s pink, and it matches the blossoms in Joan’s and in Fancy’s

Dream - Arthur Hacker - vibes. Just vibes.

Roses - Pierre-Auguste Renoir - again she’s very pinks and yellows

The Kiss - Gustav Klimt - again, yellow, but also matches Fancy

Study for Portrait - Francis Bacon - Yellow again and I love Francis Bacon

Couple Descnding Staircase - J. C. Leyendecker - imagine her undercover somewhere fancy. That’s her.

Iris - Alphonse Mucha - I think she looks like Shirley, and she matches Joan’s Mucha

Hibiscus with Plumeria - she’s very pinks and yellows, similar to Joan

Water lilies - Claude Monet - the colours felt very her, and she matches George’s Monet

Sunset: Wheat Fields Near Arles - she matches Joan as well, and she’s very yellow

Moon Reflected in a Turtle Pool, Seychelles - Marianne North - again, moon/sun Shirley/Joan.

Jim Strange:

Parade de cirque (circus parade) - Georges Seurat - the figure in the middle is playing a trombone like Strange does

The Northern Lights - Sydney Laurence - he’s very bright blues to me

Water Lilies - Claude Monet - again, bright blue

Masonic Symbols - Unknown - Well he is a mason.

Above the Clouds I - Georgia O’Keeffe - blue again!

Awa Province: Naruto Whirlpools - Utagawa Hiroshige - yet again, blue

Evening Shadows - Maxfield Parrish - Blue once more

The Grand Canal of Venice (Blue Venice) - Edouard Manet - Blue again, quelle surprise

A Calm Moonlit Marine Scene - Alfred Stevens - blue yet again

Wheatfield under Thunderclouds - Vincent Van Gogh - he matches Joan, and once again he’s very bright blues

George Fancy:

Kiss by the Window - Edvard Munch - he’s quite blue, and he matches Shirley

Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) - Francisco de Zurbarán - he’s quite sacrificial lamb shaped

Kumoi Cherry Trees - Hiroshi Yoshida - it felt like the right colours again

The Water-Lily Pond, Green Reflections - I liked the colours and he matches Shirley (again)

The Lament for Icarus - Herbert James Draper - He’s quite ambitious, storms in too fast and gets killed in the process. Icarus. (And also it’s the name of the episode in which he dies)

Rain - David Hockney - it just vibes really

Bullfinch and Weeping Cherry - Katsushika Hokusai - blue! And matches Shirley’s blossoms again

Blue Morning Glories - Georgia O’Keeffe - blue again

Orpheus and Eurydice - Edward John Poynter - like Morse, tell me he wouldn’t go to hell and back for someone

Water lilies - Again, the colours felt very him, and again he matches Shirley

The Starry Night - Vincent Van Gogh - again, deep blue feels very George

Max DeBryn:

Raven - Odilon Redon - Ravens often mean death (like pathology) but also they’re bloody clever

Farm Garden with Sunflowers - Gustav Klimt - his garden is wonderful. That’s it. (And Morse has the same one)

Dido Building Carthage - J. M. W. Turner - he definitely loves the Aeneid. And I hope he’d be a Dido supporter

Anatomical pieces - Théodore Géricault - he’s a pathologist, it’s anatomy. Enough said.

The Anatomy lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp - Rembrandt - again he’s a pathologist, need I say more?

Lorenzaccio - Alphonse Mucha - get this man to the theatre

Unknown Man - Ken Currie - once again, pathology

Ulysses and the Sirens - John William Waterhouse - I just know he loves the Odyssey as well

The Agnew Clinic/The Clinic of Dr. Agnew - Thomas Eakins - Pathology again innit

Death and Life - Gustav Klimt - …pathologist.

The Ascent of the Blessed - Hieronymus Bosch - I just know he’d love a Bosch painting. That’s the whole reason

Corner of a Garden - John Singer Sargent - again. His garden is great

Dorothea Frazil:

Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden - Otto Dix - she is a journalist

Pink Shell - Georgia O’Keeffe - pink sunset colours! she’s so sunset colours (orange mainly) to me (a lot of hers is based around sunset-y colours I can’t lie)

Dorothea - William Etty - it’s her name!!

Nasturtiums - Odilon Redon - Orange!

View of Constantinople by moonlight - Ivan Aivazovsky - it’s orange, and again, orange colours again (and I adore Aivazovsky paintings)

Grainstacks at Giverny, sunset - Claude Monet - see above about sunset colours

Willows at Sunset - Vincent Van Gogh - again. Sunset. It just vibes honestly

Dahlias - Claude Monet - Yeah it’s orange. Yeah I know

Roses - Pierre-Auguste Renoir - pink sunset colours this time!

Canna Red and Orange - Georgia O’Keeffe - do I need to say it again?

Bleeding Hearts - Georgia O’Keeffe - Pink again

Midnight Sun, Norway II, 2003 - David Hockney - again, orange colours. They’re just so her