Musings on Life and Art by a Found Object Artist, Photographer, and Printmaker

Musings on Life and Art by a Found Object Artist/Photographer/Printmaker

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Blossom Baton Being Born

Well, I've decided that with the manga theme for the upcoming ARTcrawl on June 18th, we need a Powerpuff Girls-themed baton to lead the procession down King Street. The Powerpuff Girls remains one of my favourite cartoons, and the references it makes to pop culture from my era are very clever. The absurd adventures of the three pint-sized girl-power evil-fighters never fail to make me laugh.

The Powerpuff Baton is the fourth in series of ARTcrawl batons. To date, I've made The Goat Stick, The Croc Stick, and Sir Real.

So far, I have sweet sugary girly ideas for the baton, but the only item I have ready is the head of one of the Powerpuff Girls, Blossom (redhead, centre of the photo). Blossom's signature colour is pink. Buttercup and Bubbles are the other two Powerpuff Girls.

Blossom is "The Smart One" and the self-proclaimed "Commander and Leader" of the Powerpuff Girls. I absolutely love this show.

Some great quotations from the show:

"Um, well, I'm sure to the untrained eye, this drawing may seem like one of mine. But if you look closer, you'll see it's an obvious attempt in pseudo-impressionism, while I deal strictly in realism. Bye."
-Bubbles

"Bubbles! Put down that stupid octopus and help us with this stupid octopus."
- Buttercup

"Mayor, you could have mentioned the caveman and the mastodon
when you called before."
-Blossom

I'll post a photo of the Blossom Baton when it is done. This will be a fun project!

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