Interesting to paint a portrait with your back to the subject. Must be some of that there conceptual art.
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Quote: beaky @ 20th July 2022, 9:24 AMNot wishing to sound ungrateful, Herc, but can we have a rest from Pedro and all his permutations of "Stiff"? He's a bit of a one prick - er, trick - pony.
Ha! Just checked my folder and the next 4 are all Pedro! Never thought about it, so will try and do a shuffle.
You can have this extra, to be going on with - from a different era
That's more like it!
Poor joke, but life was simpler then..................
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An oldie but a Goldie!
Did you know of 'Taylor Beaky?
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 24th July 2022, 9:13 AM
Surely, in normal conversation, one would say "does his father have curly hair?".
Sorry to have only now seen your question, Stephen. I googled and the cartoonist was Arnold Taylor, who spent all his working life -sixty years! - with Bamforths, saucy Northern postcard specialists. He retired in 1987, so must be long dead. But his legacy lives on!
Quote: beaky @ 26th July 2022, 8:40 AMSorry to have only now seen your question, Stephen.
You missed one of mine too........................
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 23rd July 2022, 4:25 PMSuspicion (1941)
Watched this, this afternoon on 2, another film I'd only seen bits of over the years. Just happened to be on and stuck with it, despite it being filmed mostly in America, and you could tell this by the number of British actors who'd emigrated to the States.
American scenery, British RH drive cars for this first Hitchcock film in the U.S. Not bad, with Cary Grant as the ultimate cad and murderer...................or was he?
And the only reason for posting this, is the character played by Nigel Bruce was called Beaky.
Made me laugh........
Haha! I could have done worse than Nigel Bruce...
Note the care with which the eiderdown has been painted - or is it a collage?
Always liked Nigel Bruce and thought he was the perfect Dr Watson, to Rathbone's perfect Holmes - I have the box set of all the films, which always seem spookier to me than other versions.
Speaking of Mexico as I was with Stephen on the TV thread, I was surprised to find that Bruce was born in Mexico (!), where his father Sir William W. Bruce, worked as an engineer. His family was part of English aristocracy, ever since Charles I. bestowed a baronetcy upon them in 1629.
Well I never!!!
EDIT I think the eiderdown is very cleverly painted