The good old days- A3-pen & water-soluble coloured pencils.

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Lol great characters Lewis, so detailed. Even love the wall 🧱 have a good day ☺️

Posted by Faye Patrick on Thu 09 Feb 07:26:03

Great ... I love the lady at the end, very Les Dawson.

Posted by Heather Love on Thu 09 Feb 07:30:11

Wonderful group.

Posted by Stephen Kelly on Thu 09 Feb 07:41:47

Love em

Posted by Sylvia Evans on Thu 09 Feb 07:48:00

Love the characters, particularly the chap in the centre!!

Posted by David Stevens on Thu 09 Feb 08:17:33

Absolutely how it was Lewis I have an 84 year old friend who used to be in a skiffle group who tells me these same stories. Your Characters are absolutely superb as always. Thank you.

Posted by Chris Scott on Thu 09 Feb 08:27:47

Excellent painting Lew and great humour , I had a friend who was the lead singer in a band he lorded others over the others.

Posted by Paul (Dixie) Dean on Thu 09 Feb 08:32:59

Smashing! I also love the face of the lady, and as Faye says, the wall! Your details are always wonderful.

Posted by Tessa Gwynne on Thu 09 Feb 08:44:47

Another awesome work Lewis, great characters. I love everything about it

Posted by Petra Palmeri on Thu 09 Feb 09:19:18

Excellent Lewis.

Posted by Denise Cat on Thu 09 Feb 09:29:34

Brilliant group Lewis. You can read their characters so well

Posted by Martin S Taylor on Thu 09 Feb 09:43:50

Good old days is right Lew. Where did you get the photo of me from... ? (-:

Posted by Jim Morris on Thu 09 Feb 10:05:07

Amazing Lewis! Every band member perfectly captured as is the sniffy expression of the woman. I was going to say it's now 'one of my favourites' but I could say that just about every other day!

Posted by Russell Edwards on Thu 09 Feb 10:22:21

You have captured the era very well, another good one Lew.

Posted by Stephen Hulse on Thu 09 Feb 10:46:13

A great group of characters Lewis.

Posted by David Williams on Thu 09 Feb 11:50:05

Love all the expressions on each face- all different but so good. The details always amaze me - from the wall to the battered songbook!

Posted by Christine Rogan on Thu 09 Feb 12:26:43

HAHAHA brilliant, spot on!

Posted by Collette Hughes on Thu 09 Feb 12:40:32

Thanks for your great comments, I thought this might ring a bell for a few. Not having any musical talent myself I just expected the bands to be there, never giving a thought to how they got there with all their gear. I'm talking about a time when it was rare for ordinary people to have a car.

Posted by Lewis Cooper on Thu 09 Feb 12:53:26

A skiffle group...love it.

Posted by Val Kenyon on Thu 09 Feb 13:19:31

Always a joy to linger on one of your drawings

Posted by Diana Boanas SWA on Thu 09 Feb 15:29:04

Love it, Lewis

Posted by Maureen Sherman on Thu 09 Feb 17:13:20

Good stuff Lewis.

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Thu 09 Feb 18:28:59

Fab 5 !

Posted by Carolyn Parkinson on Thu 09 Feb 19:46:20

I love this Lewis. The characteristics of each band member is brilliant but I particularly like the woman at the end of the queue. She reminds me of Les Dawson when he dressed as a woman!

Posted by Spencer Lambeth-Angell on Thu 09 Feb 19:55:08

Brill!

Posted by Linda Wilson on Thu 09 Feb 21:16:06

Great characters and painting, Lewis. You make us always smile, thank you.

Posted by Coral Pastor Caparrós on Fri 10 Feb 07:22:20

A skiffle band! That takes me back. Wonderful characters, especially the unimpressed woman. Thanks again Lew.

Posted by Mark Annison on Fri 10 Feb 11:18:32

I love this!

Posted by Kate Wilkey on Sat 11 Feb 13:11:38

So good!

Posted by Maureen Sherman on Fri 24 Feb 22:48:37

Hang on Studio Wall

09/02/2023

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We were talking about my wife's brothers who had a band that played in the local pubs back in the late 1950's/early 1960s. A saxaphone, piano, tea-chest bass and drums. No cars back then, they had to catch a bus carrying all their gear. Sometimes the conductor wouldn't let them on. The pianist, second left in my pic, had no worries...all pubs had a piano back then. The good old days...I think.

About the Artist

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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