Zettiology

How do you describe Zettiology?

"Could you say it is sustained confusion?
~Susan"

I was challenged to try something new over at Chriss' blog this month. She asked her readers to make some ATCs in Zetti style.

I had never heard of this style of art, so off I went on a search of all things Zetti. It was very hard to find anything written about the art form but I did get some intriguing glimpses of wings, stripey legs, pointy hats and a mixture of black and white and brightly coloured images on Teesha Moore's website. I was fascinated and determined to find out what this idea was all about.

While I probably haven't fully grasped all that is bound up in the idea of Zetti, I did come up with the idea of taking a boy's face and torso and mixing it together with the legs of the Voila chef from Stampin' Up!

All of the examples of the art form that I had seen sported fairy like legs and figures of myth and legend, some of which I am sure haven't yet been written. I decided to put my own spin on the matter by showing a boy's dream that had not come true. Maybe you can relate to having a dream as a child that did not materialise quite the way you wanted it to? That's what happened to this poor young man too.

I took some license with the idea of Zetti as I latched on to the notion that it was meant to be a little bit of fun and silliness as well as a chance to try out a new art form. I hope it worked!

If you have some examples of your own experiments with Zettiology, I hope you will share them with me.

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