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The Tower is reserved for only the best , so were definitely in then, hope we haven’t dragged Lew into it as well .
Those Yeomen of the Guard won’t know what’s hit them , I do hope they are reserving the best rooms, oops sorry cells, I do love a bowl of porridge my favourite breakfast, so thick it comes in slices with golden syrup mixed in.
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I often get comments that some of my characters look like such-and-such, it's always pure coincidence because they are just made up. This brings to mind a recent pic. The idea was for a self-portrait to which I'd add a limerick. As a background I thought I'd make a compilation of some of my drawings in photoshop. It's the pic on the left below. I didn't like my portrait/caricature at all. It couldn't be put in the gallery because it lacked my dashing, debonair good looks....
...having spent time on the background, I decided just to make up a cartoon type, not me, who happened to be called Lew. That's him in the middle pic, the drawing is plonked on top of the background I'd already made. At the point where I had just the drawing on paper, with no clues, and with the limerick still unwritten, my wife said, 'that's you, isn''t it?'
No. No way, it's nothing like me (secret dark thought...maybe it is.) If anything, it resembled a French comedian and film actor from the 1950/60s I liked called Fernandel. And that was pure chance because I just made the drawing up out of my head. (I've liked French Films since I saw 'Rififi', a French crime movie from the fifties.) Anyway, drawing done, limerick written and that's the middle pic.
Then I decided to have another bash at a selfie. That's pic 3. It's a better likeness, but still lacks my modest charm which may be impossible to get down on paper.
So...a rare occurrence...a painting I didn't like spawning TWO that are OK.
This drawing/painting game...such a palaver.
...having spent time on the background, I decided just to make up a cartoon type, not me, who happened to be called Lew. That's him in the middle pic, the drawing is plonked on top of the background I'd already made. At the point where I had just the drawing on paper, with no clues, and with the limerick still unwritten, my wife said, 'that's you, isn''t it?'
No. No way, it's nothing like me (secret dark thought...maybe it is.) If anything, it resembled a French comedian and film actor from the 1950/60s I liked called Fernandel. And that was pure chance because I just made the drawing up out of my head. (I've liked French Films since I saw 'Rififi', a French crime movie from the fifties.) Anyway, drawing done, limerick written and that's the middle pic.
Then I decided to have another bash at a selfie. That's pic 3. It's a better likeness, but still lacks my modest charm which may be impossible to get down on paper.
So...a rare occurrence...a painting I didn't like spawning TWO that are OK.
This drawing/painting game...such a palaver.
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Well they say that everyone has a likeness, or even a double, somewhere, and you draw so many brilliant faces that some are likely to ring bells in our heads as viewers.
I thought maybe you’d gone off to draw me and the warthog being dragged off to the Tower of London by some beefy Beefeaters!
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by Tessa Gwynne
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You got me thinking there...I looked it up. The one I had in mind was a brilliant crime film, the first 25 minutes showed a robbery with no speech or music...riveting.
This one...
There were films called Fifi...don't know them...
I was living in London back then and would pop on a train to the West End in London, to a cinema that showed the latest French movies. Back then you didn't need to be rich to travel by train.
There were films called Fifi...don't know them...
I was living in London back then and would pop on a train to the West End in London, to a cinema that showed the latest French movies. Back then you didn't need to be rich to travel by train.
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Rififi was Jean- Paul Belmondo wasn’t it? No, come to think of it….Anyway, a great film! Loved all French films - Un homme et une femme, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Jules et Jim, Monsieur Hulot’s holiday, Amélie, Le Cop, and more recently “Prophet” and “Mesrine”. Sorry, it’s Lewis’s fault, I’m on a nostalgia trip now. But I’ve just come back from a live performance of French songs and jazz in our village…..
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by Marjorie Firth
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You're right Marjorie, it wasn't Belmondo. Without checking the poster I wouldn't have been able to name the actors. I too have always liked French films. Rififi is on my favorite films list, but I haven't seen it in an age...I wonder if it would still stand up to my memory of it. Another all time favourite is 'Amelie'...French again.
We've drifted away from art...never mind...I've said what I had to say about messing around.
