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Art, cats, Dogs, Had to type out the numbers because WP was playing up and wanted them all to be number one so that's why. - humph, Humour, I was spellbound by the show The matchless power of the glow, Lola Dupre, Lost in the collage
Lola. Lola Dupre in this case rather than Ray Davis’s lovely lola, see the link in her name for her official site and more works of art.
I found this artist quite recently and everything she creates is eye-catching, at first I thought it was digital art ( I wrote ‘computer generated’ then realised that gives away Esme being 329 years old), but it’s actually painstaking collage work with paper. I’ve added a few close-ups below to show the detail.
You are guaranteed to have a favourite, mine is number 16, give me a number back – looks demanding and paces about waiting
Number One – Best Fathead in Show winner.
Number Three – Something has been eating away at him.
Number Four – Joyous pupster
Number Five – Unreliable generally I suspect.
Number six – This is Charlie the cat, who features in several of her works, I think he suits the triangle all too well.
Number Seven – You rarely see a lady with so many…bellybuttons.Number Eight – Furball.
Number Nine – Excellent typist
Number Ten – Why the long face?
Number Eleven – Close-up of the work.
Number Twelve – Spider-dog, Spider-dog, does whatever a Spider-dog does.
Number Thirteen – The thighs have it.
Number Fourteen – Charlie again giving his best side to the camera.
Number Fifteen – Cracking staircases in there.
Number Sixteen – Sneaky sort, would steal your socks whilst you still had them on.
Number Seventeen – Behind the scenes.
Number Eighteen – Serious stuff.
But is she a showgirl?
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Oh that was thirty years ago, when they used to have a show, now its a disco.
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No yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there?
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Awful, sits there so refined, and drinks herself half-blind.
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I think I have to vote for number fifteen as the best;
That architectural abomination could exist.
The rest suggest a lurid, eyeball-crazed imagination,
For which Hell or Chernobyl chiefly served as inspiration.
A geometric moggy, an emaciated lass,
And countless crypto-pooches, each a vast and twisted mass.
No champagne from Ray’s Soho club could conjure up such frights!
This Lola must use stronger stuff, to see such haunting sights.
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Ha!
Fine choice you made dear Infidel,
This imagination doth in truth expel
The expansions of beings of body and mind,
When it comes to artists, she’s just my kind.
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Looooola, la la la la lo-oh-la, la la la la looooola-ah da-da-da-dun da-dun (Sorry..that song is going through my head now! )
I love these! At first I thought they were digital, too. They are a lot more original than most of the collages I’ve seen over the last few years ( you know, the hipstery type which are quite pleasing to the eye but a bit samey). I’m so glad I decided to have a sneaky look at WordPress right now, as I was feeling a bit uninspired and ‘meh’, but now I think I might want to spend my friday night cutting up old magazines and getting busy with the glue stick ( that sounds filthy. Let me clarify: I think I might try some collage this fine eve! Ahem. )
It’s difficult to pick a favourite… thinkyface….methinks it’s a tie between Charlie the triangular cat ( 6 ) and the unreliable number 5. But I like the strange distorted humans, as well. It looks as though the artist may have used multiple copies of the same image to create these * extra thinkyface* . Whatever’s happening there, I’m inspired, anyway! Thanks for that, and for the well needed laugh 🙂 . I hope you’re doing ok * throws a cup of tea and a slice of chocolate cake up to your cloud and hopes that they land upright*
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Noir! I have been singing it almost solidly ever since, barring the odd time that earworm was replaced with Barry’s Copacabana thanks to Mr Pink, I dance with it an all (Esme is available for weddings, bar mitzvahs, funerals and naked bike rides where she plays the spoons whilst whistling requests).
I’m pleased you enjoyed them Noir, once you get to the nitty gritty it’s appealing stuff, though I think I’d end up all glue, torn paper and cursing. I think I’ve spurted some inspiration your way (no funny business folks, we run a clean Cloud here as you know (utter bare-faced lies)). Your thinkyface picked my previous favourite, it was an eye and fang tie in reality; five also reminded me of my favourite claymation character, Vince from Rex the Runt. If you haven’t seen the series you’ll love it. It’s about a group of dogs that live together and have their own dog called Vince who only ever says ‘Tuesdays!’ randomly barring the time he caught ‘Random Pavarotti Syndrome’ which features in this clip. I loves it I do.
Rex the Runt
“I hope you’re doing ok” – Thank you for asking m’dear, I’m still here, so in that sense things could be worse – falls about darkly
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Haha, I made the mistake of reading those other comments there, and now, alas, I’m shaking maracas singing ” ..at the copa, copacabana..” in a frilled shirt. How am I supposed to be a Goth under these circumstances? This will never do. * collapses onto my Victorian fainting couch *
Thanks for introducing me to Rex the Runt! I watched a minute of it and I like it ( I’ve got it bookmarked for later). It reminds me of that brilliant little series that I can’t remember the name of….that one with the claymation animals being interviewed about all sorts of stuff. Was it Creature Comforts??? Can’t remember, but I loved it. The UK does comedy so well. And so creatively.
Well, I’m glad you’re still around. * hugs * Sorry about the tea and cake. * throws a giftwrapped magic powdered cartoon style ‘just-add- water’ tea and cake kit up to your cloud to enjoy at your leisure*
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Creature Comforts, yes, it’s excellent, I’ll do a full post on the original short now you’ve reminded me because it was so inventive.
And don’t worry about the first cake, the dog had a field day, hahahahahaha.
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Hahahahaha! Very good 🙂 I’m a bit tired ( very late here, must go sleepybyes) so that took a second to register. Was well worth the click!
Yoss! I look forward to that. T’was a great show. Very original. Lotsa laughs! I watched that entire Rex the Runt vid too, btw. I loved how the episodes became progressively stranger- culminating at last with Easter Island statue lookalike aliens encountered on the way to New Zealand 🙂
Applies blackest eyeliner ever but is careful not to accidentally get any on the pristine fluffy white cloud *
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Great find Esme. Thanks for sharing this quirky and really clever artist!
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You’re most welcome Val. Which one do you like the best? I’m real nosy that way.
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I love number fifteen. Stunning and emotionally rousing. Charlie is the triangle is an other favorite. Too many eyes are a bit unsettling for me …. Would not like to have them hanging on my wall looking at me. LOL.
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Yes, reminiscent of Escher too, excellent choice Val, I’ll make sure I only have two eyes should I ever come and visit you notes this down as she pockets several of her spare eyeballs
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Sending you a kiss with closed eyes and a bunch of love 💕
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Dogecoin dawgs — all ’em.
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By the Gods…dog currency! Musk has been cocking his leg at it too…
https://news.bitcoin.com/elon-musks-258-billion-dogecoin-lawsuit-grows-as-new-defendants-doge-investors-join/
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Number 8. 😀
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Heheheheheh, cheeky face on him, I like the way the overlapping pieces of paper look akin to crackle glaze on ye olde paintings, touch of the Tudor period about them, and I reckon number 8 would suit a
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Oh god yes! Very Elizabethan. 😀
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how can anyone pick?! great find & share 🙂
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Thank you kindly da-AL! I’m glad you enjoyed the weirdness beams
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And the winner (according to peNdantry) is:
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Number 12, Spider-dog!
(Digital-this, digital-that; ptui! When I hear ‘digital art’ it always makes me think of finger-painting. And as for the multitudes who think that a photo of their handwritten signature is a ‘digital signature’, well, call me an old cockwomble if you must – I would – such folk are too many bits short of a byte.)
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Cockwombling underground, overground…upon the common I’ve no doubt! Good choice mind, and I agree, I lean towards ‘real hands on art, though there’s certainly a place for digital, I was very please to see these are constructed from tint pieces of paper, there’ll have been a meditative air when creating I’m sure.
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Oh, don’t misunderstand me, Esme: these examples of creativity you’ve presented here are wonderful. I was wibbling at the growing tendency to prepend ‘digital’ to digitally everything these digital days, which is digitally driving digital me up the digital wall. Sorry for not being clear!
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Fear not Pen, I got you. These are only partially digital, I absolutely agree about the trend, something is being lost. Possibly the plot. Ha!
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