MR. POTTER'S PAPER ART 3-29-11

Taking a break from sketching, I spent the last week working on some of my recycled "paper art". I get a kick out of taking paper/cardboard scraps from the local recycling bin and creating 3-dimensional figures and objects out of them. With some scissors, a bit of Elmer's glue, and a LOT of patience you can make about anything.

I've posted some of my previous creations here on my funtime blog so I figured I'd share a couple new projects.

I made a generic Smurf with some blue and white paper I found.





I figured later on I could get fancy and make a Papa Smurf or Smurfette? Who knows.



I brought my old Fisher Price "chatter phone" to work one day to draw it and my co-workers got a big kick out of seeing it on my desk. It seemed everyone was happy to be reunited with their old pal (I guess every kid grew up with this thing).



I was working on the Smurf and I had commented to one of the new guys that I should build the chatter phone to scale out of paper. It would probably take a lot of work but I figured it would be a fun task to complete.
I spent the next three days measuring the original phone, cutting patterns, gluing, and assembling the pieces. I should have photo-documented the process up to this point but I figure I still have quite a bit of work to do. I've got the basic "body" finished and some of the smaller pieces drying. Here's some pics of the current state of completion:







Today I built the dial and started on the wheels.









I'll post more pics of this work-in-progress as it is completed. I've got some neat ideas for it!

RECENT DOODLES AND SKETCHES 7-10

I haven't been working on any big art projects lately but I'm usually doodling one thing or another so I thought I'd share some of the little stuff.

I was messing around with a lot of 80s characters and drawing up these little sketches to put in an 80sville type of small town that I had drawn up. I figured I'd just draw the town first and just plant them in later with photoshop but I ended up finding out a little too late that I added too much detail and the characters didn't look good shrunk-down and squeezed into the streets and windows.

The drawings are still pretty fun though by themselves.



Starting from top left and working our way down we have Monchichi the thumb/banana sucking fuzzy monkey. I was thinking it might be funny to have him sticking his thumb in another monchichi's butt. (childish but funny).
There is vomiting Odie or "Grodie". The gag is supposed to be a long gush of puke instead of the tongue.
A "Poochie" dog ripping apart a Cabbage Patch Kid.
Q-Bert and PacMan, a couple Smurfs and Strawberry Deathcake? A goth version that smells like clove cigarettes?





Care Bears bearing 80s logos I planned on scattering around town (too small to see the logos on their bellies).



Alphie II the reading robot helping kids learn to spell "FART" and other various 4-letter words.
More Strawberry Deathcake ideas with little pets and names like "Moonberry Gloom" smelling like formaldehyde.
Charlie Brown who was supposed to be exiting a building shaped like the Snoopy Sno-cone maker from the early 80s.
Garfield, Gloworms, Q-Bert, and Fisher Price Little People (rabid dog that bit little boy).



HeMan VS the Shirttales



A few Tomy robot sketches



Snoopy sitting on his shithouse



Cabbage Patch Kids "Koosas" the animal versions that were supposed to be pets.



Rainbow Not-So Brite picking on star sprites.

Here's another random drawing I did on the back of an old book.



And a couple of recent Garbage Pail Kids drawings (Shown with the original cards).













That's all for now.

SPRING GARAGE SALE HUNTING 2010 week 2

A decent weekend of garage sales with great spring weather. A lot of small toys to dig through. I was hoping to find certain things, but as usual I tend to come across a bunch of unexpected junk I didn't expect to find.
I couldn't believe the amount of Smurf and Garfield collectibles I kept running into? They kept popping up at one garage sale after the next. It was strange. I went to this one garage sale in an upper-class neighborhood with a lot of electronics and higher-priced furniture where there was nothing antique or old whatsoever, and on my way back to my van I see sitting on one of the tables a Smurf toy bus. Totally out of place. Bizarre.
Anyway here's some photos of the stuff I bought:



Wax koala from a zoo, Brainy smurf action figure, Twizzlers wind-up lips, Alvin and the Chipmunks wind-up Simon.



Sesame Street Telly and female Snufflupacus pvcs, 2 Garfield pvcs, and a Get-Along Gang pvc.



Tomy wind-up skiing bear, Snagglepuss fast-food toy, Garfield and Odie die-casts.



Mighty mouse fast-food suction toy, Smokey the bear figure, alligator cereal prize, Pokey the horse figure, and a weird goblin rubber bookmark clip.



Set of Disney pullback vehicles (fast-food toys)



McDonalds pull-back vehicles



Some lady convinced me to buy these Flintstones lunch bags from 1980 (10 cents).



Miss Piggy 1981 calendar. Each month has her on the cover of popular magazines. The middle is a mock Playboy centerfold.









Maybe I'll find some better stuff next weekend?

CEREAL OF THE 80'S

Sit down in front of your Saturday morning cartoons and munch away on that delicious bowl of 1980s cereal. Can you resist digging the prize out of the box right away? Will the cereal turn the milk colors?
Scroll through these happy memories of your 80s breakfast.


GHOSTBUSTERS CEREAL 1985








RAINBOW BRITE CEREAL 1984




NINTENDO CEREAL SYSTEM 1988




GREMLINS CEREAL 1984


I've got this Gizmo doll in my studio. When you shake him he squeeks.


DONKEY KONG CEREAL 1983


DONKEY KONG JR. CEREAL 1983


CABBAGE PATCH KIDS CEREAL 1985


MR. T CEREAL 1984

This cereal always reminds me of Pee Wee's Big Adventure when he eats it for breakfast.






CRISPY CRITTERS 1989


CROONCHY STARS 1989


C3POS CEREAL 1984




PAC-MAN CEREAL 1980




E.T. CEREAL 1984


BARBIE CEREAL 1988


ICE CREAM CONE CEREAL 1987


Who could resist putting the little ice cream puffs on top of the cones and eating them one by one?


I have one of these green octopus wall crawlers in my studio. It still works just fine after being washed with soapy water. This was from Froot Loops (1986).


NERDS CEREAL 1985
Like the nintendo cereal this had two separate compartments that had different cereal.

The smelly markers on this box were the first mail away I ever sent for. I was in second grade and I didn't understand the concept of the postal service. The day after I sent the letter I sat in a lawn chair at the curb out front of my house waiting for the mailman to bring me my markers. I seriously believed they were coming from Willy Wonka's factory. That summer I sat on the curb every morning for over a month. Finally the day they showed up I wore them all out in about three or four hours.


G.I. JOE 1985


SMURF-BERRY CRUNCH 1985

This one must have been around for a while because I remember eating craploads of Smurf-Berry Crunch.

I hope this brought back some marshmellowriffic memories. Sorry for you kiddos that had to eat malt-o-meal. This post has been part of your complete breakfast!!