Please Put Your Scarves On.

I've had an idea for a while now to start work on a couple of books. One is the Mr.Eraser comic mentioned in previous entries (which I have actually started, it's just top secret is all) and the other a zine - just a collection of works that I've been doing over the Post-University time. Today I finally managed to get a few finished pages together along with a cover for the zine which will be titled 'Please Put Your Scarf On' named so after a quote taken from a J.D. Salinger Book I read earlier this year. Hopefully I will do something productive with both of the books such as sell them or mail them to people who may be interested. We'll see - I've got plenty of time to think about it while I'm putting them together. Here's the front cover - 

'Please Put Your Scarf On' - the book will be printed solely in

 black and white, and the front cover on blue paper - 

this is merely a mock up of what it may look like.

One image that I've done is a picture of Ted Danson - an idea that I'd thought of a while ago but hadn't been able to come up with something I really liked. I feel that I had a good concentrated period of drawing/painting time today that I really got a lot done over a short time. I think I just need to maybe be more meticulous and specific when dividing up my time and making my plans.

Indeed it is true.

The next image is where the name of the book comes from, speaks for itself I suppose.

'Stop being an awkard bugger now John.'

The final image I produced today was a new version of the Transcona picture I did which is posted over at Sea Legs. I really enjoyed doing this, I simply decided to do it bigger than the original in order to get in some more detailed pattern. I liked the colours I used, although I couldn't decide whether it actually needed the ink wash in the background - this may take over the picture a little too much when it's converted to grayscale.

Thank you Transcona for bringing me home.

It's nice to be feeling productive and to be coming up with ideas, just hope that this state of mind sticks around for a while. Oh yeah, I was totally going to have a crack at that drawing yourself as a teenager and drawing yourself now thing that Jen had mentioned to me but I got carried away with the above - I'll probably have a go soon. That is all. 

JAB

We regret to inform you that there are no ghosts...only cardboard cutouts of Ted Danson.

Good day. Three days left until we set off for Morocco, this year our trip to Morocco will be a bit more "holiday" oriented with us supposedly working on the electrics in a small centre in Midelt for about a week and then having over a week to travel through Marrakech, Meknes, Fes and the Atlas Mountains by whatever means we can find. I should imagine I'll have plenty of stories and photographs to show when we return on the 23rd of July.

I've still been struggling to get any of the photos from the hat party so this collection put together using Photo Booth and Photoshop will have to suffice.

A selection of hats of the hat party...(left to right) 

1. Indiana Jones hat.

2. Jack's Russian hat (not a very summery option).

3. Moroccan Shepherd's wintertime hat.

4. Unknown.

5. The Illustrious and 100% official Moroccan Fez.

6. Bah Humbug hat (origin unknown)

7. My Cycle Helmet

8. MG cap.

9. El Gringo hat.

10. Lou's Princess hat.

11. Jamaican Rasta hat.

12. Australian hat (origin unknown)

13. Mike's Scottish hat (complete with "Flower of Scotland" tune)

14. Another Scottish hat (origin unknown)

15. Unknown Wicker hat.

16. Fluffy Beret (origin unknown)

So I'm fairly sure that it's rather obvious to the reader that I have a lot of time on my hands at the moment, what with being able to sit around making photo montages of me wearing numerous hats and all. So when I get bored I find myself drawn towards watching rubbish on youtube and I figured it was probably about time that I helped to dispel a few urban legends. Yeah you guessed it, there are actually no ghosts...just cardboard cutouts of Ted Danson so there's no need to worry anymore, now you can sleep soundly huh? Sorry to disappoint all of the believers out there but there's no ghost in the film "3 Men and a Baby" just a cutout of the Ted-meister and don't even get me started on the idea of a munch-kin hanging himself in "The Wizard of Oz", come on now people, this is just getting silly.

There, are you happy now? No ghosts, okay?

Okay I've got things that I should really be sorting out for the Morocco trip on Sunday, so I shall stop procrastinating and be on my way. No doubt I'll be on again later spouting more rubbish.

This Morning's Song -"The Invisible Garden" by Bright Eyes.

J.A. Birch