Candy Boy Under the Sugar-Plum Tree with Snake featuring Red Hots, Cherry Blow Pop, Sour Apple Blow Pop, Everlasting Gobstoppers, Devil Dogs; clothes based on R. Crumb (shirt) and Juicy Fruit Gum (pants). Tree and body of the snake based on The Downfall of Adam and Eve and their Expulsion from the Garden of Eden from the Sistine Chapel (Michelangelo); head of snake based on Kaa from Disney’s Jungle Book. Inspired by the poem “The Sugar-Plum Tree” (Eugene Field).
2019
Gouache on Paper
11"x11"