I learned from a friend in high school; an exquisite corpse is when more than one artist works on a piece. I would have parties where we would get together with a roll of paper and just start drawing things. There were people there who claimed not to be artists (we all are in my view) but they drew things because everyone else was drawing things. The claimed artists there would tie all the things together. I ended up filling up about 32 feet of that roll with doodles and etches and all sorts of cool stuff. We called it scrollacious ultimatum, I wish I still had it.
This led to getting together with other artists and creating things. Comic books, cartoons, stories, murals, all sorts of stuff. One year, there was 4 of us (incidentally, we worked together at a restaurant) who got together to create a Christmas card of the restaurant we worked at. It was a 24x36 pencil drawing of what happens in the back room of a restaurant uh, at Christmas.
A couple of years later, my brother and I started getting together to do what we considered an adult coloring book (more on that later). Which then turned into getting together on the day after Thanksgiving, every year, to do a Christmas card. There are folks out there who have collected our cards since the beginning. It was those folks who inspired me to finally get these cards out to the public.
Each year we have tried to come up with new ways to “count our blessings” or appreciate what we have. It is my hope to entertain and maybe provoke some thought when you get one of these cards.
Sincerely,
Bob Kelley