Friday, March 30, 2012
Pandas Don't Like Fish Fingers plus Alf Garnett and Orson Welles
This is the last of the Panda drawings for the time being, as I have to focus my energies on painting a guitar for the Dublin Soul Music Festival. It has to be ready by the18th of April. Nothing like a deadline to focus the mind.... Shame it doesn't automatically guarantee mind blowing results for the finished product. I'll post pictures when I've done some work on this.
As you can see from my sketch Panda doesn't like his tea much.
Neither does Alf Garnett, but he's won't let that stop him. Una Stubbs is Mrs. Hudson in Sherlock nowadays. Can't imagine her serving up fishfingers and making kissy faces at Benedict Cumberbatch, but you never can tell.
Finally, there's Orson Welles. Recording a voice-over for a frozen peas commercial. Words cannot do this justice. Listen and enjoy.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Panda in a Balloon, plus Peter Cook and Funny Face
In this unfinished sketch, Panda is traveling by hot air balloon. Lucky Panda.
Inspired by the balloon theme I have added not one but two (!) Peter Cook clips.
One with Dudley Moore where Peter Cook plays Toulouse Lautrec. In French. You don't need to be au fait with francais to enjoy it though...
The second clip is from the Secret Policeman's Ball in 1979 with Eleanor Bron.
The final excerpt is from "Think Pink" from Funny Face.
There are balloons in this sequence.
I may be reaching just slightly to include a clip by one of my favourite directors - Stanley Donen. He directed Pete and Dud in Bedazzled. (Bears only the slightest relation to the later Liz Hurley vehicle - more of a rickety old cart than a balloon, if you want my opinion.....)
Inspired by the balloon theme I have added not one but two (!) Peter Cook clips.
One with Dudley Moore where Peter Cook plays Toulouse Lautrec. In French. You don't need to be au fait with francais to enjoy it though...
The second clip is from the Secret Policeman's Ball in 1979 with Eleanor Bron.
The final excerpt is from "Think Pink" from Funny Face.
There are balloons in this sequence.
I may be reaching just slightly to include a clip by one of my favourite directors - Stanley Donen. He directed Pete and Dud in Bedazzled. (Bears only the slightest relation to the later Liz Hurley vehicle - more of a rickety old cart than a balloon, if you want my opinion.....)
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
The Bear Can't Help It
This is Panda Au Chocolat. You might remember him from yesterday's post. He's having some kind of problem in this picture. I don't know what that problem might be and I don't wish to speculate.....
Frank Tashlin was an an illustrator, author, animator and filmmaker. His picture book The Bear That Wasn't is very funny and beautifully drawn. He also made films. I'm showing you an excerpt from The Girl Can't Help It, starring Jayne Mansfield (and a cameo from Bilko!). John Waters says that Jayne Mansfield was the ultimate movie star and Divine was his Jayne Mansfield - only put together with Godzilla. Gotta love that John Waters, and Jayne and Divine and Frank Tashlin...
....and Panda (well, I love Panda - and not in a Brick from Anchorman "I love lamp" sort of way!).
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