The Summer Fair

I should have posted this a while ago, but here it is now anyway, for those of you around on Saturday, it's a must, look forward to seeing you there!

Mrs Thatcher's hanky

After the recent death of Mrs Thatcher, I remembered a very direct link to her. It was in the days of the rather lovely illustrated BA tail fins as orchestrated by Newell and Sorrel. They had proved very controversial and they were looking to rationalize the fleet, maybe to go to a simpler set of continents rather than one for each country. I got the nod for trying out some designs for each continent. I was pretty excited. I loved the idea of seeing my artwork flying overhead. However, before they got anywhere, on the news popped up Mrs Thatcher at an exhibition with Lord King, head honcho at BA at the time. With a simple gesture of holding her nose at something stinky and dropping a hanky over the tailfins, the whole thing was effectively history. Tailfins left on the drawing board. Here are the drawings rescued from historical irrelevance.

sneaky preview

Here are some of the rough preliminary working out drawings for the novel I've been doing. Just for a bit, and now, mysteriously gone....!

new update

I have updated my website to make it easier to navigate and stuck a lot of new stuff at the same time. Here's a little snippet.

Well it's frreeezing cold outside and not that warm in here either. My one and only post this year must be feeling very chilly too so here's another to keep it company. I have just updated my website and I think I will choose a new pic from there, so here, for your Easter delectation:

Well, hello little blog, you have been left out in the snow, all cold and alone haven't you? So sad. I blame the hacker who deleted half of you and led to tears of unrest in the kingdom. But how could he just abandon you? Oh,cruel and heartless monster! Never mind, lets be friends again? Let's get to know each other again. It might be fun. Slowly but surely. A picture? Well ok then, try this one and let me know what you think? It's about who you might least like to sit next to on a plane...