Monday, March 15, 2010

Horrendous Serendipitous Wrapping Paper



I'll post the rest of my work in Anders' book later, but for now here's the collaboration with Mike. The right hand side of the page is some wrapping paper I found when cleaning out my aunt's closet last weekend. It is either the ugliest thing I've ever found or the most charming, and I can't decide which. It's supposed to be for baby showers and I thought these pregnant ladies went well opposite Mike's dead folks. Also I loved that one of Mike's skeletons was singing in the rain, and these pregnant girls are twirling around in the rain too with their oversized parasols.

Inside the central character, I created a scene with Charon using colors from the wrapping paper to tie the world of the living to the dead. I didn't quite want to leave it that simple because, really, I still haven't decided about that wrapping paper. I had an old receipt book, also belonging to my aunt, and so I stamped one of the receipts with a lino-cut skull so that Charon could prove he had delivered a soul to the afterlife - must keep good records! I added a few more things, but I'm not sure if it's done yet. I'm putting a sticky on this page because if anyone else wants to add something, I think that would be great.

7 comments:

ballookey said...

Depending on how you feel about that wrapping paper, you can decide which is more disturbing: the land of the living or the land of the dead. ;)

Something Different said...

Ha! This is grand. Using goofy wrapping paper in a collage is a great idea. I need to try more collage. Bravo Ballookey!

Mary Stebbins Taitt said...

Totally far OUT! I LOVE the contrasts. Oh Fortuna is a great addition and the burned check, LOL!

This is super--Genius! :-D

steve said...

Very cool contrast going on here - brilliant!

henniemavis said...

I would think Mike may delight in goofy wrapping paper collage? He did use a Trader Joe's wine bag as a snappy print dress once, remember? And it was on a skeleton gal, no less (Land of the Dead)! That wine bag looked an awful lot like wrapping paper to me :-)

ballookey said...

Thanks all! I did think the wrapping paper idea was particularly appropriate for this collage because on a previous page Mike worked with a sheet of wrapping paper, so there is a certain continuity there. I still think it needs more - I like a dense collage, but I'll leave that in case anyone else has something to add.

Mike Kline said...

This is really awesome! I love what you do to my doodles!