cartoonish
Hey, remember when I briefly mentioned that we were going to hang our caricatures in our newly painted weight room, like, four months ago? Yeah, we finally got around to it yesterday.
Here’s the weight room (notice the lack of floorboards – classy!). This is the downstairs bedroom, which currently houses this weight thingy, a bunch of handheld weights, a punching bag, three guitars, an amp, and a harmonica that I once spent enough time with to learn how to blow a wheezy rendition of “When the Saints Go Marching In.”
And here’s the caricatures:
They’re oddly sized, so regular frames don’t work. We bought 3 pieces of black posterboard for 59 cents apiece, plus 3 skirt hangers for $3.99, and matted the caricatures, leaving a 1-in. border. (Jason did all the measuring after I botched the first one because I am incapable of matting or anything else that requires precise measurements. Me: I can’t do this! Jason: It’s just measuring. Me: I know – exactly! What if I mess it up? Jason: It’s fifty-nine cents!)
And voila! A closeup of our first caricature from 2003, where the artist tricked us into future purchases by making us all cute and perky, like sun-dappled Hollywood B-listers. Aw, aren’t we cute! We = me and Mark McGrath.
Thanks to that caricature, we got another one in 2005.
Run away, kids! It’s Pin Head and Uni-Eye! Alternate title: Uh…DUH…
Anyway, something is…off. Like Jason’s mouth and my entire head.
But that didn’t stop us from getting another one in 2007. That was the year a stupid swing ride incapacitated me for 8 hours, so the artist obviously chose to emphasize my about-to-spew mouth, along with Jason’s nostrils.
Now we’re due for another caricature this summer. God help us.
I love that you have this tradition. What an awesome thing. I hope you keep doing it forever.
Comment by Jess — February 23, 2009 @ 2:03 pm
Woof. Other than that first one, those are practically mean-spirited. I thought the point of a caricature was to make people look like slightly funny versions of themselves, not to poke fun at the subjects.
Comment by Shelly — February 23, 2009 @ 2:09 pm
I love the way you chose to hang these! I would have never in a billion million years thought to do this AND do not be surprised if I steal your idea! LOVE IT!
Also, #1 looks the most like you, I think. Not sure who that dude is with you in all three drawings – does Jason know you’ve been having these done with others guys?! I kid, of course!
Comment by Christina — February 23, 2009 @ 2:10 pm
I can’t even put into words how much I love this post. The shot of them hanging in the weight room could have been enough but the close-up shots and your commentary are perfection. I say that you find the guy out there in the world who did that 1st one and pay him to follow you around drawing you because you two are hotties! Those other two “artists” can go poo on themselves.
Comment by Emily — February 23, 2009 @ 3:31 pm
I LOVE them! ALL of them!
Comment by Shannon — February 23, 2009 @ 4:51 pm
That’s far more fitting than a frame anyway!
Comment by slynnro — February 23, 2009 @ 6:23 pm
I love how you framed them!
Comment by Nowheymama — February 23, 2009 @ 7:05 pm