I started with a grasshopper head, with blue and silver eyes and orange jaws, as it was mid Summer here and we had a lot of 'hoppers jumping around the garden and at times indoors as well.
Miles gave me a wonderful male torso, perfectly constructed and even with a touch of hair, then he added a beautifully tailored shirt. Thanks Miles, great work, you "lusty carnivore"!
Arlee added a tummy then a pair of "gleaming ghostly" hands which partly cover pink undies and the top of a shimmering pelvic girdle. Such a lot of exquisite work Arlee, thankyou.
Unbelievably, Mary Anne must have read my mind as she added a pair of "mysterious" hairy green grasshopper thighs which are made of shimmering soft plastic and added beads for knees, naturally.
Robin has finished it off with the best pair of platform boots i have ever seen, set in a field of flowers on which the invisible "cow" is probably munching, and she has brought the colour back to blue again. Brilliant Robin, thankyou.
I probably made life difficult for everyone by constructing my background cloth from woven 1 inch lengths of rami linen, which could move about a little, at the wrong times. Just alittle challenge to overcome or try to live with. I also chose to indicate the 7 inch boundaries with short sections of a flexible dressmakers ruler. I've never been known to stick exactly to the 'Rules' as such. Thankyou everyone who participated in this Exquisite Corpse round robin and thankyou to Arlee for coordinating it. It has been an exciting journey, i am thrilled with my final work and have learnt such a lot from joining in. I have also made some new, good friends from the experience.
The 'poem' says: "the single footed lusty carnivore gleaming ghostly her mysterious cow". .....hmmm....thought provoking!
Kaite
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This looks great, Kaite - I bet you are very pleased with it!
just wonderful! amazing work!
Doesn't to look fabulous! How funny that Mary Anne added grasshopper legs! The colour range is very good too - avoids the incoherency that sometimes afflicts this kind of work. Terrific job all round.
I didn't peak....honest, cross-my-heart, I didn't!! I have absolutely no clue what possessed me to make those legs; must have been your thought waves?? I'm just relieved that you actually *knew* they were meant to be grasshopper legs! This one turned out kewl!!
What a fun piece!
Kaite, I'm so glad your EC made it home safely. It's fabulous – I’m so glad you like the platforms! Something about the “low spark of high heeled grasshopper boys” comes to mind!
And to all the participants – your creativity, imagination, and extraordinary talent are AMAZING!
Oh too cool! Really love this one. And the background was worth the extra effort, really adds a lot to the whole shebang.
Wow thanks everyone for your comments and thanks again to my group for all your inspiring work. Robin i love your background flowers, Mary Anne your grasshopper legs are very cool, Miles if i could only find that torso in real life i'd be happy. Well done, great work. K.
You have all created a wonderful creature! A marvel. Great work everyone, and lucky you having it now at home with you Kaite.
OMG, this looks like fun! What awesome work. I would really like to do this!
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