This week, all I could think of for this topic was “too much coffee” and “marionettes”. And then I went to see the musical “Carnival” at the Kennedy Center and that did it, I was only going to get puppets this week! Here you see the puppet, Carrot Top’s, arms are wired so Michel, the puppeteer, can control them better (like Muppets).
This is the final scene of the book,
“The Love of Seven Dolls,” by Paul Gallico. Mouche is about to leave the theatre for the last time and Carrot Top stops her after tossing GiGi out of the booth. Why? Well, you’ll have to read the book. The movie, “Lili,” and the musical “Carnival,” are somewhat based on this book, but unlike those highly sanitized versions, this wonderful book is very dark and the ending is complicated.
Yep, it’s one of my favorite books.
Edit: Whoops! Just realized I spelled the French wrong. Should be “Capitaine Coq et sa Famille”. Serves me right for doing it from memory…
hall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
-Shakespeare’s sonnet XVIII
Last week was one of those weeks where I just wanted to crawl under a rock. I guess I just couldn’t get that image out of my head.
Soooo this illustration is a little goofy. I think it’s also heavily influenced by a very strange combination of “Pan’s Labyrinth” and Larry Shue’s “The Nerd” (don’t ask). That said, I have absolutely NO idea what is going on here. If you know, please tell me?
Anyway, this is a bit of an experiment – I’m trying to do a little more fantastical stuff, loosen up a bit, and experiment with organics in the medium. It is entirely digi-painted using the Photoshop “sponge” brush.
My intention was to do a piece on dance but this came out instead.
Charlemagne loves whipped cream. He communicates that he wants some by head-butting the refrigerator. When he’s all finished lapping it up, he head-butts me and purrs.
“Ella always assumed rules were meant to be broken.”