This week we have two Very Special Friends of Cul de Sac - but aren't you all? (said in a Dame Edna Everage voice, please).
First, Ms. Jennifer Hart of Arlington, who writes and hand delivers to us a perceptive and funny weekly newsletter and who also bakes us excellent cookies, somehow found the time to draw these two excellent images, both of which I wish I'd've thought of.
This one, casting Petey as the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come and Alice as the Ghost of Christmas Past, really cracks me up. Who would play Scrooge? Mr. Danders, of course.
Here Mrs. Otterloop has some problems with her annual Winter Sweater, a theme I've visited a few times. And probably will again soon enough, but Jennifer got to this variation first, darnit.
Mr. Diego Ceresa, the renaissance man, artist and translator whose work we've lauded on this blog before, sent in this vivid image of Alice If She Had Pupils. It's haunting in the same way an Andy Warhol painting would be, if Andy Warhol had ever had the foresight to paint Alice Otterloop.Mille grazie to Diego and Jennifer! I'm inspired, which I sure do need because I got a pile o' work to do.
The name "Jennifer Hart, Arlington" carries a certain weight for those of us who followed the Style Invitational for several years. I may have let out a little "squee" noise like a Twilight fangirl. You'd have to post art from "Chuck Smith, Woodbridge" to really bowl me over, but this was close!
ReplyDeleteWow. So, if Alice had pupils, she would always look really creepy, or scared, or something. Good thing she doesn't have them, then.
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