‘Favegan’. Pencil drawing by Koldo Barroso, 2009
Ladies & gentlemen: here is your new Kooky Pet Workshop: Favegan
This little pal is always hanging around the tables to eat the vegetables left on plates by the kids who don’t like green food. He’s favorite one is organic lettuce because it makes him green and gets him in a merry mood that allows him to fly upside down all over the place. He always loses his boots during the flight, so he gets grumpy again and comes down to look for more green food.
- This Signed 50 Limited Print is now available at the Store.
This Kooky Pet was created with the following reader’s ideas and suggestions:
- Eats vegetables left on plates (Aiyana)
- Knobby knees (Jody & Carolyn)
- Shrew like nose (Sarah)
- Only has a couple teeth Oddfae)
- Red/orange tendrils (Kris)
- Lot of little centipede feet (Zoe & Yelena)
- Dragonfly wings (Friday)
- Little cowlick on the top of his head (Colleen)
- Some yellow and orange colors (Nadiia)
All of these contributors will enter a giveaway of a signed hatercolored print of the most popular Kooky Pet of the month.
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.
These are from Aiyana, who is currently enjoying a holiday.
wings
“ginormous”
only practices kindness
eats vegetables left on plates
Mine would be-
large eyes
knobby knees
Can’t wait.
Carolyn! Thank you so much for sending lucky Aiyana’s ideas too! Tell her I’ll put them in a little box with her name on it so they won’t let lost. Your ideas are brilliant, by the way.
I wish more people would bring their children & grandkids to this project like you do! Kids generate a very special energy on the Kooky Pets.
A little mouse or shrew like nose with twitching whiskers would be nice!
I second knobby knees!
Also,
buttons
a tool being misused
ferret like tail
lives in a bucket
or maybe
a droopy belly
When I think of kooky, I think we have to start with a personality trait! This kooky pet has an abnormal mood – he is happy ALL the time and giggly no matter what happens. He is generous in the oddest ways, like giving you something that you don’t even need – handing you a cup and thinking he just made your day.
-He has huge, swollen hands from being curious, and generous.
-His eyes smile but are also blank because he is not totally with it.
-The only places he has fur are on his eyebrows and chest
-he wears a top hat cocked to the side.
-his upper lip is really huge so when he smiles constantly it looks odd.
-crawls on all 4s because he is curious
-only has a couple teeth
-one eyebrow is cocked up, like someone who is innocently confused.
-has a red something on his back- not fur but something that makes him stand out.
-his knees are extra boney like an old man.
you can tell his body has suffered from him being so cluelessly kind, but he looks so happy! koooooky
Needs a really remarkable NOSE to find those leftover vegetables…
kooky has tendrils – red/orange, maybe green/purple stripes of many far reaching tendrils
Just one little clarification:
Since I only pick 1 idea per person, when you second other people’s ideas that’s the only one of yours that will be picked.
He licks the plate squeaky-clean after he eats veggies from it, so he needs a suitable tongue. Likes to fiddle with humans’ things, especially with those about which he’s clueless. He’s trying to be helpful, really, but humans don’t always appreciate it.
wow, sunny’s really good at this! that’s a pretty complete pet…
maybe he should have a lot of little feet, sort of like a centipede, only they can all be used as hands as well–since he’s crawling around looking for lost things and useful things. so he would be able to walk around close to the ground using only some of his feet, while the other feet serve as hands, holding the treasures. and he would have really deep pockets, too, and one of them would be filled with veggies. i think being kind makes him jolly and fat, like st. nick, and since he always thinks he’s done the right thing, he feels like life is easy and sweet.
I like how the things are doing this weeks, seems to me that you are going for a pretty cohesive pet, great!
And… welcome to the new Pet Creators: Kris, Oddfae & Sunny!
Wings — intricate and colorful like a dragonfly that make sweet humming sounds when it’s in flight … maybe he/she hovers next to our ears but when we turn our head we can’t see him/her?
Oooo, I love zoe’s idea of feet that can serve as hands if needed! And having plenty of those feet-hands
And…he has a little cowlick on the top of his head which gives him the darndest time when he wants to dress up for special occasions!
I would like to see some yellow and orange colors there! It is so eye catching on darker background,ummm!
Wonderful! Admission is closed now, so I have material enough for the next Kooky Pet. Thank you all and emember that we have a meeting to see the result next Tuesday!
i love him! he’s my favorite so far–his paunch contrasts wildly with his delicate little wings, and that nose is fantastic. great colors, especially those long hairs at the top of his head
and i’m a big fan of the framing of this one, too–it looks like another crazy creature with a beak holding up the sign at top.
ps, i love those fingers, too!
That’s one great looking pet, and a very low maintenance one too!
Brava!
WOW! Haw cool is that!
Ohhhhhhhh – can we keep him (simultaneous response on sight of this amazing guy)?????
Big eyes with eyelashes no less
“Dads work boots” on all the legs
we could go on and on……
You have done it again :0)
shouldn’t they be pea-hives? whenever he gets nervous–for example, when he’s seen by an adult–he loses track of all his feet and feels like he might slip and fall, just like when there are peas around. so he immediately breaks out in itchy pea-hives.
this image is a photo, taken by an adult who had been laying in wait to capture his likeness for an encyclopedia of such creatures being written to remind adults of the things they used to know as children. that’s why his eye is so dilated, it’s from the flash; it’s also why he’s covered in pea-hives.
He only eats organic vegetables. All of them but peas because all of the time his feet step on them and roll until he falls upside down, then he can’t get up.
What do you think of the spots on his skin? What may cause it?
Awww, loving Zoe’s explanations as much as Favegan. This is why I’m here … to recapture the imagination of a mind less stress-filled. Thanks to both of you! Favegan is absolutely my FAVE.
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
-Kris
-Zoe
-Friday
-Colleen