FIND THE BIRD!!

"Find the Bird," 9" x 12," pencil on paper

by Karen K. Remus, Copyright 2012

All rights reserved by the artist

I remember Highlights Magazine in the waiting room at the doctor's office when I was a kid.  "Don't touch anything in here," my mom warned, "all of these things have been handled by sick kids."

Somehow, that germ infested rag did end up in my hands, however, because I remember this "Find the Hidden Objects" picture, that some bacterial laden brat ruined for me by circling all of the lamely drawn hidden things.  A fish.  A star.  A duck.  A flower...  The drawing quality of both the hidden objects and the total composition made cave paintings look like Da Vincis. 

Whenever things are "hidden" in a scene, the scene always looks suspicious and weird.  Things bulge out unnaturally.  The key to finding hidden objects in these types of pictures is to find the areas that just LOOK WRONG, and there you will find the "hidden" things.

Anyway, my drawing, "Find the Bird," is an homage to those "Find the Hidden Object" drawings in those virulent Highlights Magazines of my youth.  The point of this drawing is to drive the child viewer insane.

Dream Poem (Warning: contains poop)

Dream Poem
by Karen Kay Remus, Copyright 2013

I gave myself the gift of chance
The chance to know my poop
'Twas at the doctor's office
As I stood upon the stoop

"You've got to go, so do it, Joe!"
Declared my inner child
So do, I did, and out it slid
As if 't'were in the wild

"Scatologists have stupid work!"
I screamed, as one approached
"What kind of 'work' is this, you jerk?"
He winced, as if reproached

"No seeds or hair, it can't be bear...
It's oblong and it's brown...
I'd say that scat is human...
Also sir, your pants are down."

The (stinking) End

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"Irreconcilable Differences," Drawing by Karen Kay Remus, Copyright 2011

Find the poop in this drawing, and win a prize!