Free for All:Dada Drama

 

Free For all.

 Thank you Ron for the themes, enjoyed the challenges, but this is what happens when you let me do a free choice..I get all in a dither and create a rather odd mish mash..haha.  

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL. X 

Happy New Year 2023

Not done much collaging lately due to nasty bug laying me low. Thought it was Covid as Archie had it and had to isolate in his room for 5 days. tests were negative so just a nasty cold. I only felt like watching TV and old films. So much crappy TV on over Xmas but I did enjoy the Mark Gatiss "Ghost Story" and "Inside No. 9" (also about ghosts). Nice Norwegian film on iplayer today. My brain is mush so dont remember much else! Hazel is a wonderful nurse and did some lovely meals despite not having cooked very much over the years!

GRAPHITE EXPECTATIONS

 

Theme: Into 2023 with a Free For All.

Concluding the KK year with a random collage of your own.

This ends my theme captaincy for a while. Thanks for all your artworks over Nov & Dec.

Wishing you all the best in the year ahead of us. - Ron

All I want for Christmas is…

 

(Silly) Walking in the Air

https://youtu.be/upH1QZU4Z0Y

"All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth"

Note to Michael:

Loved Spike Jones "Barnyard Christmas" --

thanks for the inspiration!

The Little Drummer Boy (Bear)

 

When the red red robin comes Bob Bob bobbing…..

 Merry Crispmess one and all.  Hope you all have a lovely Xmas . 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtkhJ1xqw2o

Xmas Song or Music - Away In A Mangle

A hairy crimble and a slappy nude bear to one and all! Here's a good one thats nothing to do with the collage depicted! https://youtu.be/9eDRij_uCdg

Theme: Favourite (Christmas) Song or Piece of Music

Tuneful collages - merry melodies in montage required.

It doesn’t have to necessarily be a Yuletide one - just any piece of music you like for inspiration.

So have yourself a Merry Little Kollage & Happy Christmas!

- Ron

The Prancing Charger Adventure Challenge Circus

Barrel Organ at the Circus

 

The Windsor Circus

 I often feel the Royal family could be called a circus.

Circus and Fairground - Your Big Top!

CIRCUS & FAIRGROUNDS: Practicing in the Shadow of the Parthenon

 

Circus and Fairgrounds - C for Circus (C for Clown)

Used an old postcard of mine for the base of this one.

Theme: Circuses & Fairgrounds

Roll-up! Roll-up!

All the fun of the collage carnival.

A glue & paper thrill ride of side-shows, clowns, acrobats and much, much more!

Hounds Of Love - Bonzo Dog

From the archives.

Hounds of Love (bit late)

 

HOUNDS of LOVE: As my father always said, "If there are no dogs in heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."

 The above is a quote from

William Penn Adair Rogers (1879-1935).

Rogers was an American vaudeville performer, actor

and humorous social commentator.

He also said:

"I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons."

(I was just corrected about the gent at the typewriter, it is Will Rogers, Jr.)

hounds-of-love: Hounds of the Baskervilles - The "B" Team.

Hounds Of Love - A Dog Is For Life Not Just For Christmas

A bit big for the scanner hence the rather poor photo with too much reflection. Nevermind - you get the idea!

Dog Pile on the rabbit (inspired by Michael.)

 

HOUNDS of LOVE -- Helen Loved Interpretive Dance With Her Hounds

From the archives.

Dogs are always fun theme!

 

Hounds of Love

 C

Hounds Of Love - House Of Dogs and Cacti

Hounds Of Love - Dog Pile On The Rabbit

One of my favourites from the archives - 2015 to be exact. Influenced greatly by a Bugs Bunny cartoon from the 40's.

Hounds of Love: In the Doghouse

From the Archive.

Theme: Hounds of Love

Dogs, doggos, precious pups, collies, poodles, terriers and many more.

All pedigree chums & mutt pals welcome for collage walkies.

Pantomime - "It's Behind You!" "Oh No It Isn't!"

Not sure what I was thinking when I started this. It's all gone a bit bonkers - trying too hard to make things fit! Far too big for the scanner too so had to take dodgy photo. Ho Hum!

PANTOMIME: Giants of the New York Vaudeville Stage

 L to R: Ray Bolger, Ray Dooley, W.C. Fields, Frannie Brice, Ed Wynn

pantomime: Hiss the Villian ATC

Pantomime - Robot In The Woods

Review by famous theatre critic Algenon Cupcake - "This year's panto based on "Babes In The Wood" was a tedious affair with the lead role of Widow Twonky being played by a mechanical elephant. Even more surprising was the villian Montegue played by an actual robot that completely ruined the second act by leaking oil all over the first two rows of the stalls. No wonder half the audience left in the interval. This farcical production was devoid of comedy, pathos and any form of intelligetnt script. I suggest it had been written by a four year old with blunt crayon! This production plumbs new depths of banality and I demand my money back!"

The Pantomime always needs some Fairy Lights

 It was at the Savoy Theatre in London that the term “fairy lights” was first coined.

Opened in 1881, the Savoy was the first public building in the world to be lit entirely by electricity, fitted out with 1,200 incandescent light bulbs created by Swan.

A year later, Swan was commissioned by the theatre’s owner Richard D’Oyly Carte to create miniature lights for the dresses of the lead fairies on the opening night of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe.

The dresses were adorned with lights powered by small battery packs hidden beneath the folds of the cloth.

-pantomime-

From the Archives.

Theme: Pantomime

Slapstick, sing-songs, bad jokes & villainy.

No, not our politicians on a normal day at work.

But, oh yes, it’s that time of the year again - (“Oh, no it isn’t”).

The pantomime season.

Play to the gallery with artworks inspired by this particular form of theatrical entertainment.

All together now.

zodiac-signs: Born Under A Bad Sign

Had the title of this last week then the other night when watching British comedy film “See How They Run” - this song by Richard Hawley appeared on the soundtrack - “Born Under a Bad Sign”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEsag3kRzvE

The Zodiac: "The Dawning of the Age of Aquarius"

 I am an Aquarian. I have always loved the song "Age of Aquarius/Let the Sunshine in". Here is my interpretation.

Zodiac Signs: Taurus the Bull ATC

From the Archives.

Signs of the Zodiac:Gemini

 

Signs Of The Zodiac - Leo

Leo the Lion…or Cats in Space.

 

Signs Of The Zodiac - Gemini (The Twins)

Theme: Horoscopes & Signs of the Zodiac.

Who knows what the future holds?

I predict scissors, glue and paper.

All celestial collages and star-signed artworks welcome for the coming week.

MONEY SAVING TIPS: Take a Staycation! And while you're rambling about the countryside as a "tourist"...

 ... earn extra cash as a dog walker!

WIN WIN

money-saving-tips: Free Wolf-Dog Voucher

Economy Drive..cheap ways to get around. Numbers 1 - 3

 

Economy Drives - Print Your Own Money!

Economy Drive: Kraftwerk Trial Steam Power

Money Saving Tips - The Money Pit

From the archives.

Theme: Economy Drives & Money-Saving Tips

Buddy, can you spare a collage?

Thrifting ideas & observations welcome for these recessive times - no matter how wacky :D

Ron

weights-&-measurements: 16 Tons

Inspired by one of my favourite songs by Tennessee Ernie Ford

https://youtu.be/3tXJokkWQjY

Weights and Meaures - Converting Old Clocks

Weights and Measures

 

WEIGHTS & MEASURES: The Strongman and His Dog