I wanna know what love is. A3 sketchbook. Pen and wash.

I wanna know what love is -small
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The advantage of radio - you never saw faces !. Another one to enjoy Lewis , thank you.

Another reminder of long forgotten days. Excellent.

Brilliant Lewis, love your colours and drawing skills, the detail here is fab right down to the throth on the pint, awesome our chap !

Cracking! Love the teeth, or lack of, and thanks for the much needed humour this morning.

Always good and makes me smile

Great characters Lew, I like the idea of the background guys in mono, that’s worked well!

Thanks to everybody for your great comments. Marvellous to get such feedback. Thanks for the point on the mono background, Alan. In all honesty I'd been intending to draw the background more fully, but I often go off the boil on pictures, and did that in a hurry to finish it. I was hoping it would 'suggest' the background, and 'pop' the foreground figures.

Brilliant work Lew, the singer looks a bit like me, and he has my old jumper on but I cannot sing.

Looks like they are doing a real demolition job of a song I like Lew. A pub scene hardly seen these days sadly. Great work as ever.

Brilliant Lewis, he looks a 'rum un' what with the cauliflower ear and all, wouldn't want to be the one to ask for the mic!

Thank you Paul, Jim and Russell.

Love that intense connection with the microphone, his missing teeth and the hole in the jumper. Great stuff Lewis.

Those were the days Lewis. My mum used to play in the local pub for years. We had a piano at home , so of course every one would come to us for Christmas. This is a great painting of past times.

This is so very effective, Lewis, especially love the understated background...not 'off the boil' at all, really clever highlighting the two pros!!!

Ha ha, fantastic Lewis that expression is priceless!

Great illustration, Lewis. Brings back memories (not of toothless old men!) but the regular folk music evenings we used to enjoy at our local pubs in the 70’s - shame these have gone out of fashion nowadays.

Thanks again for your great comments. Yes Fred, different times, I suppose it'll be 'karaoke' machines now. This pianist could play anything, people would buy him drinks, I don't know if the publican gave him anything. He clearly loved to play. And there were several regulars who'd get up to sing...like this old boy.

These two made me smile Lewis. The good old days!

Great Lewis and I can just imagine the quality of sound coming from the singer's mouth!

Brilliantly drawn, wonderfully observed and joyfully funny Lewis. I love your work. Keep that wit sharpened.

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Nostalgia. Back in the dark mists of time, when I was single, I'd go with my mates to a pub. It had a pianist, people would get up to sing. One ragged, near toothless old man, with a face only a mother could love, would sing heart-broken love songs. (Not this song). He had a great voice. (Went off the boil on this one, so it's a bit hurried).

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Lewis Cooper

Self taught. Love drawing. Like to make pictures up, without using reference pics, often in cartoon style. I do other pictures where I do use reference. I'm knocking on a bit, born in 1940 in Greenwich, London. Retired, and loving it.

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