Look out for this
The finished version in my show starting Wednesday, come along. There will be no blank canvasses! Continue reading Look out for this
The finished version in my show starting Wednesday, come along. There will be no blank canvasses! Continue reading Look out for this
This is the line work for one of the drawings about the British Character, the final piece is framed and ready to display from Wednesday next week. You can see loads more either at the show or if you can't get there drop into my website http://www.pauldaviescartoons.gallery I will be there every day, for most of the day, looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones. Continue reading Another to see
My exhibition here in Cheltenham starts next Wednesday the 16th. Apart from a series about The British Character, cartoons that are a homage to the 1930s cartoonist ‘Pont’, there are a number on Apt names and Emma is one. She’s an expert upholsterer with the surname Royd. See where I’m coming from? The original and many others will be on display and for sale at the show. It’s free and I’ll be there, thinking up other silly ideas to bother people with. Continue reading Come and see Emma next week.
Pete Wilson Show on BBC Radio Gloucestershire There are times when one has to beat one’s own drum, and this is one of those times. Continue reading That’s me talking about cartoons on the radio!
Originally posted on idiotpruf:
A lovely family having a picnic–this is not your family. The big family picnic has hit your community like a tsunami and is now slowly receding back into the ocean. Your local emergency room has been taken off high alert and much of their staff has been given a well deserved vacation. Once again your family has overtaxed their staff, frayed their nerves, and extinguished their stock of gauze, sutures and eye patches. They’ve treated various members of your family for the following injuries, ailments, and assorted issues: Contusions. Abrasions. Cuts. Lacerations. Puncture wounds. Broken bones.… Continue reading The Big Family Picnic: The Aftermath
I make no excuses for publishing this one again. Looking back to when I started my project to re-visit the ideas and drawings of Pont, the cartoonist from the 40s who inspired this whole project, this drawing is very close to his own. His drawing had a number of bears surrounding the hapless explorer and he was armed with a large rifle on an expansive ice field. Mine has just the one bear and the ice has melted, so both the bear and the explorer are under threat, from elements outside their immediate control. The ice is melting. I would … Continue reading Refusal to admit defeat?
A brilliant new concept. I was lucky enough this morning to have been interviewed by Pete Wilson for BBC Radio Gloucestershire about my forthcoming exhibition at the Garden’s Gallery here in Cheltenham. It was great fun and very flattering to have someone interested in what I do and how I got there. He saw the odd side of talking about cartoons on the radio but it soon became clear that this was not a problem. I was lucky too to have the chance to talk about my new little book, which will be on sale at the exhibition too. This is … Continue reading Cartoons on the radio?
As a change from my drawings about the British here’s my chum Robin singing about John Barleycorn, in a cornfield near to the River Severn in Gloucestershire. It’s all part of the British Character, and we talk a lot about marmalade. It’s important. Continue reading Cornfield singing
This is one of the smaller drawings for my forthcoming exhibition about the British Character, the original will be for sale at the show. Despite having a dog some years ago, I’m not the biggest fan of them, but they make great subjects for drawing and the British do have a bit of an obsession with them. Cats too! Pont: Graham Laidler, and the British Character Continue reading The Battle for the Chair
This week’s drawing. The original drawing will be for sale at my exhibition next month and you can buy a print of this too from my new website: Look for “Apt Names” Hope you have a very pleasant week, even if you are fishing. Continue reading Courtney Fish
One of the joys of my last job, which was as a print rep for a local company, was the people I had the pleasure to meet. Almost all of them were pleasant to deal with and at times it was fun. Not all the time, but then even my previous career as a cartoonist for 30 years, was not always a bundle of laughs. I love people watching as might be obvious from some of my drawings. The only attraction of an Airport is the other people on the edge of panic. I came to study many people as … Continue reading Miss Freud
My dear old Dad never allowed me to buy or ride a motorbike, for good reason, he’d seen too many people injured by them. Generally, these were younger men lured by the thrill of speed. I was very tempted and the closest I ever got to one was a Honda 50 scooter in the last year of my college days. One of my good friends also had a scooter and the sight of her backside going over the crossbars at a set of traffic light in Central Manchester is something I can still picture now. We were racing and she’d forgotten that … Continue reading This one’s for charity