Happy Easter (belated)

An Easter card image just done ( after Easter!) illustrating the pertinant perils of paschal millinary. This is why the bonnet was banned.

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Illustration Friday - "Expire"

This venerable old fellow is Otyk Pregheim. We see him here just at the point as he passes from this world to the next. He has had a good life, and, at 98, a long one too. Sitting in his favourite old chair on the veranda of his woodman's shack on the forested hills above Klodznán he fell gently into a warm and pleasant dream of girls he had known once in a Rigan bordello. Buxom, lime-scented and doe-eyed, they lead him through their curtained door and up the winding staircase, never to come back down ever again.

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Sorry I know this was last week's theme, but last week I was mad mad busy and didn't get a chance.

Sinner Man

A conversation based on the lyrics of Nina Simone's 'Sinner Man'

Yes, that's supposed to be me!

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Bill Stickers

Another unselected entry to an online competition

The Ghost of a Flea

An unselected entry for an online competition.

Illustration Friday - "Rescue"

This poor fellow is the Director of Klodznán Art Gallery, Prof. Buroslav Krampf. When fire tore through the building in the winter of '23 ( alledgedly started accidentally by the janitor Karyl Aptetski when he left the Hunter's Stew his wife Yankska had made to heat up on the small stove in the kitchen in the gallery basement and then fell asleep in his chair after 3 bottles of rowan beer) Buroslav, who lives in an apartment in the gallery grounds, ran in without a thought for his own safety and grabbed from the wall Edouard Amiot's famous 'Nude II' ( also known as the 'Barbary Madonna'), the gallery's finest and dearest acquisition.

The painting, the Director and the janitor all survived the night unscathed - although Mrs Aptetska's almost constant criticism of the event is said to have contributed to her husband's untimely death fifteen years later.

Another image from my fictional eastern European capital, Klodznán. You can view others here, here, here, here, here and here.
Biro, etc then PS

April Fool's Day / Poisson d'Avril

Beware to-day of japes, pranks, jesting, joshing and outrageous canards.

Some say it is to do with changes to the Calendar in the 1500s, when they moved the New Year from March 31st to the beginning of January - those who resisted were April Fools. But much further back the Romans celebrated their feast of Hilaria at this time, an orgy of mischief and mayhem.

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