Angel Snakes

Dottie

Dottie, the Lizard
Paper Sculpture - 1.5 x 8 x 2 inches
by Gay Pogue

        Dottie appeared here in Lawrence out in front of Gay's apartment. She was looking for a new home. Some of the young ones invited her inside. Ace found her and there was some serious talking.

        It seems her last human sent her packing without so much as a stale bag of Cheetos. She must have finally gone too far. Dottie did confess that she had been doing her usual thing to keep her human's fears alive and well. 

        Ace suggested putting her on a bland diet of soda crackers and Dr. Pepper. That often helps. We need to bring her adrenalin back into balance with the rest of her endocrine system.

        We are hoping we can rehabilitate her. LIzards do perform a valuable service to humans and others, except when they get out of control.

Wings Up!!!
Madilla

PS: She has lovely skin. Several of us are considering changing our body paint to approximate hers.

Springtime Excites Alfred

Alfred loves the springtime. No matter where he is or what the weather is like.

We set up this photo shoot on Thursday to show Alfred in his element at a community farm in Mayfield Green (population 60).

Of course, since we are in the "what it is" moon, snow lies on the ground today. 

Wings Up!!!

Madilla

Purchase this Alfred here.

PS: We will tell you more about our spring break trip in the coming weeks. We have had a fabulous time in Kansas.

The Omo People

Avatar

Avatar is an amazing film. Of course, our favorite part is that the creatures on Pandora have the most wonderful blue bodies. They say that is their natural color. We will be trying for such shades when next we redo our body paints. The bio-fluorescence will be tricky.

Gay’s son Ron worked on the film for nearly three years. He is listed as an “Asset and Database Coordinator.” Gay had told us how artistic he was. That does not sound like art—more like accounting. Yuk! So we asked him how he got from writing and drawing to FileMakerPro.

Ron said that over time he has come to understand the creation of the databases as his art. They are quite complex. He is always being called upon to come up with some creative solution.

We had not thought of this before and perhaps need to expand our definition of the arts that we muses encourage.  Thank you, Ron for that insight.

Wings Up!!!

Madilla

PS:  By the way, muses do not need to know a great deal about the art that their artists do; they need to know a lot about the artist.

Happy Halloween!!!

As you all know, Ms. Pogue teaches English at Texas City High School. She lets some of us go to school with her if we will promise to wear our name tags. Frankly, we hate wearing the name tags. The string scratches our neck, and when we try to fly the tag gets in the way of our flapping. And, they make it harder for us to hide and get away with things. We completely understand the students' attitude toward them.

Anyway, back to the topic at hand--Halloween. Some of Ms. Pogue's students, especially those with an artistic bent, have adopted members of our group. Katelyn loves us and often helps us with new body paint. Frank was hanging out with her in art class and asked if she would create a Halloween design for him. She obliged.

We all love it and thought we would share the result with you. Let us know what you think.

Wing Up!!!

Madilla

PS  TCHS is always ready for Halloween since their school colors are orange and black.