computer crashed so I was unable to add any more layers to this piece. also I am out of printer ink so I could not finish it the old skool way. And now, another wild story: Winnie fried bacon in the office microwave and stunk up the entire building several days a week. Four and a half years later, after countless complaints from the office vegans and those who claimed disability from bacon gease induced migraines, the management removed the microwave from the office. Winnie was so upset that she could no longer have bacon every morning she threw a blood clot and was forced into early retirement.

thanks mixiepixie for the images!

as much as I would love to go to friends and family this year-I have chosen to create ART for paying customers. Here is my gift to you all: Lady GaGa as a turkey pilgrim….enjoy the holidays!

WINNER!!! Week 55 Collage Play with Crowabout! How exciting to have been chosen as this week’s winner! My prize was a lovely collage sheet of awesome borders from Nancy Baumiller’s Etsy shop!

Yahoo!!!!!

“it was by the shores of the Temple of the Giant Blue Baby Heads that Nayski’s great great grandfather, the illustrious Captain Isiah Nayski discovered the curative powers of the sea where the ancient Egyptian god Serapa Kitty peed magical crystals.
Thanks to Nancy B whose week 45 Crowabout  collage sheet featured a giant blue baby that few of us could translate into a proper Christmas themed collage; also thanks to ArtsyFartsyQueen for the game boards, other images various sources including the NYPL digital gallery.
For Nayski: thanks for giving me another insane idea….”

this is an afterthought. there was a hideous blue baby on this weeks collage sheet and for the life of me i could not get it to look like a human child. and i wasn’t the only one! it was a “Christmas in July” theme so I created a Christmas tree from this sheet:

i tried several variations and ended up destroying all. i was so tired and my neck was hurting so i shredded all the images and made this:

8×11 collage done old school cut and paste. Kirsten is responsible for this madness that has come over me. She also suggested Mona Leasha. Vincent Van Go Go was pretty easy. Found the ‘dancers’ on a Google search for 60′s dancers. Not sure if they were costumes or the real thing-they looked kind of staged. Printed them out full size and cut off their heads (including their ears) Easy to find the Van Gogh self portraits-chose two of four-flipped one and printed, cut  & pasted. I hand colored the images for added contrast. The background and dance floor were out of the scrap pile!

I did a little research and learned of the new theory about the ‘ear’. Some French scholars are claiming that Vincent and Paul Gauguin were arguing over their favorite hooker, Rachel. Gauguin, who liked to carry a SWORD got angry at Vincent for shoving him and thus retaliated by pulling out the ‘epee’ in self defense. The ear was severed off but Vincent was so in love with Gauguin he did not file charges and instead claimed he did it to himself. He then gave the ear to Rachel for safe keeping. Gauguin split and never talked to Vincent again! It’s sound plausible-but you have to wonder why Gauguin never fessed up to it. Oh, and by the way, they were drunk. On absinthe, no doubt.

Vincent died two years later at age 37 of a self inflicted gun shot wound.

Stay tuned for KBP’s debut art work here soon….