Artist inspiration and artist influences. No biographies, dates or scholarly research here - this is a personal response to the work of Exploding Dog by Australian artist Fiona Morgan.

Exploding Dog is the long time (since 2000!) semi weekly online drawing project run by 'Sam'. It is pure and simple genius.  He asks people to send him a title, and he draws a picture based on what people send in. 

The drawings are so simple they could be called crude. If you poopoo the lack of finish you would entirely miss the point. These pictures are all about ideas. There is no clutter for the essence of the message to be lost in.

Simple, quirky, hilarious and not what you'd expect to see drawn for the words provided. The titles might be obvious but what on earth will the drawing show?

More Exploding Dog links

Official site: http://explodingdog.com/

http://explodingdog.tumblr.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explodingdog

The Creative Cauldron series of posts explores and showcases the visual styles, techniques, attitudes, ideas, artists and paintings that have had the most impact on me. 

The rest of the series is accessible via the Creative Cauldron page. Have a meander if you please, and remember to check out my artworks on Flickr, and have an insider peek at life as an artist on Facebook.