old-tech-v-new-tech: Glasses.

I tried contact lenses but I prefer my Gregory Pecks.

OLD TECH vs. NEW TECH -- typewriters vs. computers

Collaged on an antique book cover is a ROYAL manual typewriter that came in some new-fangled colors when it was manufactured back in the day. The girls, lending their vintage presence, are from an antique stash of paper I purchased years ago at a Paris flea market. 

All that said,  for my career I worked as a keyline/pasteup artist & typesetter AND as a secretary (primarily dictaphone). I am a very fast typist (clocked in at 125 words per minute back in the day -- average typing speed is around 50 WPM) and the first time I encountered a computer with a screen situation (I remember it like it was yesterday) I froze. By the end of the day I knew I could never go back to my IBM Selectric or the ROYAL manual clunker I learned on in secondary school!

Old Tech v. New Tech.......................................Sketchbook Pages

Old tech/new tech

 No matter which era we are born into we think we are the bees knees and have the best tech going..the sharpest flint which sliced through a mammoth must have amazed at first…

I am very pleased I was born into the age of central heating, sat navs and automatic washing machines…my favourite technology.

But I am also very pleased I don’t have to ride a Penny farthing!

Theme Of The Week..................Old Tech. v. New Tech

What were the best inventions? Have they been invented yet? Have fun!

HAPPY CAMPER

 

I thank artist Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) for his depiction of a gent enjoying a read in the painting

The Screen Porch (1964)

Happy Campers.........................Dismantling The Red Tent

Apologies to R.B. Kitaj.

happy-campers: Gerr Orf My Laaaand!!

Happy Campers......................Unhappy Campers Leave The Camp Site

Used an old postcard by the excellent Tom Phillips as the basis for this collage.

Happy Campers

 The international space station has been in the news a lot lately…and Elon Musk seems keen to destroy it as it is coming to the end of its life.

I thought maybe it could be bought to lower earth orbit and used as a glamping pod.

HAPPY CAMPERS under the Milky Way

 We had a snowstorm this morning! So I stayed in my pjs and came up with this collage.

(It took me about an hour to find a tent...I have many vintage books and I actually found

one in one of the last books I paged through!)

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Happy Campers.........................Auntie Brenda's Tent Flaps

One from the archives.

Theme Of The Week.....................Happy Campers

Ah the joys and the perils of living under canvas! I went camping a couple of times when I was young but it seemed a very perilous occupation - the weather was usually rotten so you were awake most of the night with the rain battering the tent flaps and the wind howling round the fly sheet. Triping over tent pegs and guy ropes! No wonder a cosy B&B seemed a better option! Anyway, have fun!

the-divine-comedy:

THE DIVINE COMEDY -- "Inferno", "Purgatorio" and "Paradiso"

This challenge inspired me to create a triptych (ATCs) to portray the three parts of

 Dante's Divine Comedy.

Inferno: "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here"

Purgatorio: "And I'll sing, now, about that second realm where human spirits

purge themselves from stain, becoming worthy to ascend to Heaven."

Paradiso: "The love that moves the sun and stars."

Divine Comedy

 Not sure I have hit the brief…but having viewed Dante’s paintings I just went for the odd and distorted.

The Divine Comedy - Heaven Or Hell?

Sketchbook page.

Theme Of The Week................ The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy Hell or Heaven? Which is best? Have fun with this theme.

spring: Spring Veg Reg...

Spring.............. Matchless Spring

Collage made on a matchbox label so quite small.

SPRING -- March showers please bring some April flowers!

 

Spring has sprung…off to buy some seeds…

 It finally feels like spring is here…crocus are blooming and I went out today and bought some seeds..so it must be spring…

Soon be caterpillars eating my plants and butterflies flitting around the garden.

This lady looked like she was coming out of winter hibernation.

Theme Of The Week..............Spring

Collages on the theme of Spring. New green growth - the birds are twitterpated - the sun is out - have fun!

Your Favourite Book................................The Lord Of The Rings

A sketchbook page.

your-favourite-book: Billy Liar (1959)

A favourite of mine as a teenager.

Billy Liar is a 1959 novel by Keith Waterhouse. The semi-comical story revolves around William Fisher, a 19-year-old working-class youth living with his parents in the fictional town of Stradhoughton in Yorkshire. Bored by his job as a clerk for an undertaker, Billy spends his time indulging in fantasies and dreams of life in the big city as a comedy writer.

Your Favourite Book - 20,000 Legs Under The Sea

Excuse terrible pun and the repeat from a while back - given a new airing.