WHILST SITTING in front of the TV, not really watching it, I’ll often be scribbling away, producing caricatures, from some photos on the iPad. On this particular evening, I decided to have a go at the Brit Artist of the Unmade Bed, Tracey Emin. Judging by the seventy-seven likes on Facebook, I seem to have […]
Caricatures of Serena Williams TENNIS STAR Serena Williams has been making headlines recently and not entirely because of her defeat at the US Open. There has been a global furore surrounding a cartoon of her having a tantrum at losing the match. The critics complain that the cartoon caricatures Serena Williams in the same way […]
Drawing Portraits with the Barnet Guild of Artists I FINALLY TOOK the plunge today and joined in drawing portraits with the Barnet Guild of Artists at their Whalebones studio headquarters. Whalebones is a 200-year-old house in very rural grounds between Barnet hospital and Wood Street whose entrance is marked by the arch of two old […]
Cartoon Exhibition Astérix in Britain: The Life and Work of René Goscinny at Jewish Museum until September 30th 2018 I HAD THE distinct pleasure of seeing this cartoon exhibition at The Jewish Museum in London. It is an exhibition about the life of the WRITER of the Asterix comic books, René Goscinny who was also a […]
IT’S THAT TIME of year again when we amateur astronomers quiver with excitement at the prospect of viewing some shooting stars in the constellation of Perseus. Astronomy and the cartoonist might not seem such a likely fit, but some of us are gazing upwards to the heavens as well as downwards to our drawing boards. […]
