DOODLING THE DAY AWAY 7 - I CAN FLY

'I CAN FLY' is Jenn's challenge for Collage Obsession this week.  But as I have two characters on my collage I've stretched the point a little and my collage is called:

WE CAN FLY

These are close-up portraits of the two fishy ladies in my 'We Can Fly' story.  Meet  Mag and Lola. Here they are, meeting up for a good old gossiping session:

This is a completely digital collage, produced on Photoshop.  It's really just a doodle for my Doodling Doggerel series, even though it's completely digital, because it was so quickly and easily done, and I just enjoyed making it.

The fish (minus fishy wings) were from 'The Aquarium Fish Handbook' by David Goodwin.  The 'wings' were enlarged and distorted fancy fins taken from other fish in the book.

We've had a small aquarium with a few guppies in our time for the children when they were young, but they got upset (the children, not the guppies) when the fish floated belly-up.  I suppose the guppies got pretty upset too.

And I remember when I was a child, my mother would give us a few rags to take out to the Rag and Bone man, and we'd get a goldfish in exchange.  We would take an empty jam-jar out with us to collect it - no such things as plastic bags then.  My, we were environmental before we even knew the word!

And the clouds are the pièce de resistance.  Who does clouds better than anyone?  Magritte of course.  So I went and had a quick word with him and he kindly obliged.

 MAG AND LOLA - 'WE CAN FLY'

Mag and Lola, flying high
Having problems, wonder why.

They're both preggers - soon be mums,
Three thousand eggs in both their tums.

Flying's hard, they're tired as well,
Their figures are just shot to hell.

When their eggs are laid
And they're feeling thinner,
They'll fly off into town
For a "Bird and Chip" dinner.

(Well, they can hardly have a "Fish and Chip" dinner, can they!)