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:
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. ;)
Ha! This is grand. Using goofy wrapping paper in a collage is a great idea. I need to try more collage. Bravo Ballookey!
Totally far OUT! I LOVE the contrasts. Oh Fortuna is a great addition and the burned check, LOL!
This is super--Genius! :-D
Very cool contrast going on here - brilliant!
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 :-)
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.
This is really awesome! I love what you do to my doodles!
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