Mrs Gamp 2-from my Dickens series of 6 x 4 inch pics.

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She certainly looks the part Lewis.

Posted by Sandra Kennedy on Sat 24 Mar 08:35:30

She looks like a slug, a horrible but well executed picture.

Posted by D Hillman on Sat 24 Mar 08:42:02

How ugly!!! Just perfect!

Posted by Thalia Stones on Sat 24 Mar 11:32:00

Reminds me of Les Dawson Lewis, in character.

Posted by John Graham Inkson on Sat 24 Mar 11:40:06

Brilliant as always Lewis she has a beady eye on someone!

Posted by Carole Swingler on Sat 24 Mar 11:44:04

Sairey Gamp to the life.

Posted by Robert Jones, NAPA on Sat 24 Mar 12:19:22

Thanks for your comments, it turns out I won't be using Sairey Gamp anyway, I've nearly done enough to fill my eight aperture frame. I have two, and was thinking of filling the other one with Dickensian characters, but enough is enough...I'll think of another theme for that one. Yes John, I think she looks like Les Dawson's old woman character, entirely accidental, I certainly wasn't thinking of him when I drew it...just a fat faced sly old woman.

Posted by Lewis Cooper on Sat 24 Mar 12:40:36

GREAT STUFF!!

Posted by DOROTHY WILSON on Sat 24 Mar 15:58:47

Worth the second go, perfect Lewis.

Posted by Charles Bullock on Sat 24 Mar 16:46:20

Brilliant!!

Posted by Russell Edwards on Sat 24 Mar 17:07:01

Always great, Lewis

Posted by Maureen Sherman on Sat 24 Mar 19:26:11

LOL this is a marvellous Mrs Gamp, I prefer her to the original.

Posted by Margaret Beynon on Sat 24 Mar 19:39:24

Hang on Studio Wall

24/03/2018

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Not happy with my first attempt at this character, I've had another go. Dickens says she's a fat old drunkard, untidy, and always carrying an umbrella (a 'gamp'). She also had a 'weepy eye' that she could turn upward into her head, so that only the white showed. I've just closed one eye. As it's only a little pic, I've put all the fat in her face. She looks a bit like Les Dawson...that was unintended. So now I know if I what to draw Les Dawson, 'think' Mrs Gamp.

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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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