‘Alexbagex’. Pencil drawing by Koldo Barroso, 2009
It’s a pleasure to introduce you to your new Kooky Pet Workshop: Alexbagex
He is a really nice fellow with a golden heart who wanders around picking up the dolls and stuffed animals that people abandon in the streets. He carries them in the numerous bags and pockets that he’s got in his body and repairs them one by one. Then, he looks for a nice home for the dolls, a place where a sad children is in need of a friendly toy, and makes them both happy!
For this drawing, I took the liberty to pay a little tribute to my new born nephew, Alex, who was born in Madrid yesterday. He may become good friends with Alexbagex although he doesn’t need a repaired toy. So this one is dedicated to Alex.
- This Signed 50 Limited Print is now available at the Store.
Alexbagex has been created with the following reader’s ideas and suggestions:
- A living bag (Nisanne)
- A large soft bag to carry the dolls and bears (Aiyana and Carolyn)
- Comforts the forgotten dolls and teddy bears (Sarah)
- Fuzzy (Oddfae)
- Striped socks that go up past it’s knees (Naomi & Pat)
- Really long legs (Zoe)
- Frog shaped creature (Steven)
- A mohawk of 6 horns, all different shapes, curls, and colors (Sarah Camp)
- Tiny little ears (Miss Jody)
- fluffy hands (Yelena)
All of these contributors will enter a giveaway of a signed hatercolored print of the most popular Kooky Pet of the month which will happen on the 15th of July.
DON’T FORGET that there’s a new Kooky Pet creation going on right now, so start leaving your ideas for the new pet at the next post of this blog.
i would love to see a particular kind of boombakamboomker that hangs out in the subterranean train stations of dreams (where the drumming rhythm can come from the wheels on the tracks)–which are the proper crossroads for finding imagined, desperately-dreamed-for things, because the trains (of course) come from many worlds and times.
Comforts the forgotten dolls and teddy bears children leave behind when they grow up, therefore must have big chubby arms to provide lots of hugs
oh! i’m so sad!
i didn’t think how insulting that might be, i feel terrible.
Roly-poly and fuzzy!
Zoe, I don’t want to upset you but Boombakaboomker is a spirit of the dreamlands, not a pet. It’s not possible to do what you say. Why don’t you try to suggest something that you especially like from Boombakaboombers to create a pet, that would work!
Don’t be sad, a boombakaboomker never feels insulted, he has left his ego behind.
I’d like to see one with hair so long, it can’t see where it’s going.
And it likes to wear striped socks that go up past it’s knees to keep it’s legs warm.
maybe the legs could be really, really long to emphasize those striped socks, which i hope would be black and white, and to help him stretch up to find those abandoned dolls and teddy bears that were stuffed in attics or way back on the top shelf of closets
I would like to see a frog shaped creature with bark like skin and tethered to the ground to keep from floating away.
A “mohawk” of 6 horns, all different shapes, curls, and colors.
As in some of my dolls I would like to see two different size eyes. One big pupil, one small.
I love the striped (black of course!) stockings. Bells on the end of them.
I like a whiff of straight hair standing straight up.
Reading glasses around his/her neck to read the small print on the dolls and teddy bears to see where there were made or even possibly there’s a name of the child so he/she can return it.
How Fun Bodo! I love this idea!
Pattee
What’s Bodo?
LOL Whoops…. I left out the K and the L….
I haven’t hardly had any sleep … I just got home from Montana where I also broke my tailbone … Ouch!
Pattee : )
how about a large soft bag to carry the dolls and bears in
perhaps purple
thanks for letting us play :0)
hm, regarding the bag…hm, maybe a living bag,no? like a giant rat with several, different sized pockets or pouches in its fur, closed with sippers and buttons, a rat-bag, so to speak.
A fluffy, cuddly little thing, with tiny grey eyes, a fair woolen body and little black hands and feet?
Or a how about a lint-mouse? everybody has one in his/her pocket, sometimes, or elsewhere
Tiny little ears
Spiral-y hairs
or maybe
peely lips that have been chewed on a bit
Furry, with a white or light-colored mane and big fluffy hands.
ideas:
Wide eyed, wondering, or pondering things,
Unruly hair, and a tail and some wings,
Shoes are too big, head is too wide,
There’s a friend in a pocket,trying to hide.
It looks as though this creature is tricky,
But not wicked or foul, or dirty or icky,
When we see it, we smile and sigh,
And wonder ourselves if there’s magic inside.
wow, nico!! that’s awesome! can the unruly hair have corkscrews?
Hi Nico, I’m sorry but the admission for this Kooky Pet ended Thursday night. The drawing for this one is already done and it will be posted later today. Then, a new admission for next week will start again, so you will be able to post your suggestions Thanks for your contribution.
Where is the Kooky pet?
I think this is my favorite pet so far, both in look and concept. I love the idea of a pet that fixes broken dolls and then takes them to children who need them.
Zoe had such a great idea! And all this baggy thing from Nisanne, Aiyana & Carolyn was really exciting! I love all the stuff you pulled out last week, the more I do this the funner it gets!
You’ve done it again, my friend!! Fantastic!
oh! he’s fantastic! i love him, he’s my new favorite…they get better and better each time.
vote, guys!!!
I love it. i love what collaboration can do. I preach it at work all the time. Oh, congrats on the new born Alex! Maybe one day you can have a stuffed Alexbagex created for him.
oh, i’m sorry, i meant to congratulate you, too!
good tidings to alex!
Love it !!! As we read your description we have to admit to a tear starting to form – we are push overs for anyone that brings a bit of love and/or a smile to children. The more we admired Alexbager, the more we smiled. Thank you for being you.
Ok – we were looking a little closer and discovered the toe sticking out of his stocking. So busy mending and repairing for others, Alexbagex (sorry for the typo in earlier post – Nana didn’t check it carefully) has no time for himself.
You made me work hard this time with so many dolls & stuffed animals. Let’s see what happens next week but I’m starting to think you guys are as crazy as I am!
new to this…needs a blankie
Just wanted to say thanks to all the people who made a “best seller” of Alexbagex. I’m so happy that he is now hanging on your walls!
I’m currently preparing the Kooky Pets Book and I’m contacting all of you in order to give you credit for contributing in the creation of this Kooky Pet. There’s a few people whose email address I can’t reach.
If you’re one of these and would like to be credited please contact me asap:
-Carolyn)
-Sarah
-Zoe
-Miss Jody