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Fred Maryon’s friend Trevor Andrews has been keeping us amused with a steady stream of topical cartoons during this difficult period.

NOTE! CARTOONS ARE NOW REARRANGED WITH THE LATEST AT THE TOP.

He is also supplying us from his collection of watercolour paintings.They are at the bottom of the page after the cartoons.

Trevor is a member of The Guild of Aviation Artists.

Click on the picture for a higher quality image.

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235 years ago today Captain Phillip with 11 ships sailed from Portsmouth

with about 750 criminals to set up a penal colony at Botany Bay, Australia.

The convicts being transported were petty criminals, thieves , pick-pockets

or stealing a loaf of bread because they were starving! There were no

murderers on board. Tx

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Competition time – fill in the speech bubbles with

what you think they might be saying.

The best answers could used for next week’s cartoon! Tx

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26th April 1937

The German Condor Legion and the Italian Legionary

Airforces, supporting Franco in the Spanish civil war,

destroyed 85% of the Basque town of Guernica in a

3 hour bombing air raid.

Yesterday was the 85th anniversary of this event.

Just weeks later Pablo Picasso produced one of his

best known paintings – “Guernica”.

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I only discovered it was Boat Race Day this morning

so the paint’s still wet. Tx

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..back to Putin l’m afraid but if we all pray the ‘Ides of March’

might come true then it will be worth it. Tx

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Trying to wring some humour out of the dreadful events

in Ukraine and then Oxford announced that they will be

having a pollution free zone in the city centre… Tx

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The news about the Great White Shark seen in the

sea off of Worthing probably didn’t make the news

where you are but it was ‘big’ here… Tx

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This picture of the recent meeting between Presidents

Macron and Putin was hilarious and didn’t require a

caption but I’ve added one anyway.

Regards, Trevor

In case anybody needs help, President Macron is saying

“ Could you pass the sugar please” and the interpreter is

telling President Putin “The Frenchman requires Novachok”

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“Oh what a Circus! Oh what a Show!” (Apologies to Andrew Lloyd Webber.)

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We have a guest cartoonist making her debut.

A dear friend sent me this as a New Year card referring

to having reached the 200th cartoon (on Boxing Day).

All l’ve done is to add the response from the ‘me’ on

the shrink’s (I can’t spell psychiatrist) couch.

Thanks very much Barbara (don’t give up the day job).

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…too good a topic to ignore.

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Epiphany, 6th Jan – the day the 3 wise men (Magi)

arrived bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh

– or did they? TX

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Wishing all my ‘readers’ a very happy Christmas. Tx

PS This is cartoon 199, so looking forward to number 200 on Boxing Day – if l can think of one.

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*Sunset only changes by a few seconds a day either

side of December 10 but by the end of January it will

be changing by a few minutes a day. Tx

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Friday’s not so funny cartoon.

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This cartoon was inspired by an episode of ‘The Repair Shop’ last

week when a young boy with his ‘worse for wear’ best friend Teddy

Bear enthusiastically greeted the lady who was going to resuscitate

his soul mate with .. “Hello Bear Lady!”.

I heard ‘Bear’ but my cartoon mind thought ‘Bare’… there could

be a cartoon there. Tx

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I actually drew this 6 months ago then realised

the clocks were turned forward at that time! Tx

* This is actually a Malapropism NOT a Spoonerism.

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…according to Hilary’s son in USA, this how they do it. Tx

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I wonder if there are any clever clogs out

there who will know what the tune is. Tx

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Whenever l painted in public, if anyone stopped to

chat l would ask if they would like to ‘have a go’.

No adults ever accepted, very few boys but little girls

– nearly always! Tx

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Hopefully l’ve managed to wring some humour

out of the current terrible situatation. Tx

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A friend has informed me that we have just passed the

150th cartoon … let me know when you’ve had enough. Tx

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I couldn’t ignore this header in The Farnham Herald

last week (they publish one of my cartoons each week). Tx

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On Tuesday afternoon l watched an episode of ‘The Zoo’

(Chester Zoo) on MORE4 when they put a pair of

Eastern Black Rhinos (Magadi and Ema) together in the

hope that they would do their bit to help save this

endangered species.

Their first attempt resulted in this scene that inspired my

cartoon.

I am happy to report that Magadi got it right on his next

attempt. Tx

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The LGBT charity (Lesbians, Gays, Bi-sexuals, Transgenders)

say the word ‘mother’ should be banned and replaced by

Parent who has given birth. Hence, the traditional Mothers

Day card…”Happy Mothers Day Mum” should be replaced

by… “Happy Parent Who Has Given Birth Day Parent Who

Has Given Birth”. Can’t see it happening though. TX.

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This isn’t poking fun at the Anne Boleyn programme

– once l’d ignored the casting of the beautiful black

actress Jodie Turner-Smith in the role of Anne Boleyn

l actually enjoyed it. TX.

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Down here on the south coast we have the A27 major trunk road running through the outskirts of Worthing which has severe congestion and pollution problems and causes great difficulties for local drivers.There have been big efforts over many years to get a bypass without success. In the mean time planners have allowed various developments along the road that add to the problem and the latest plans are to build an IKEA and 600 houses at Shoreham airport which will require more roundabouts and traffic lights to give access. Tx.

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Today, (May 15th 2021), is the 80th anniversary of the first jet propelled

flight with an engine designed by Frank Whittle.

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I think Trevor must have too many aggressive canvassers!

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Today’s cartoon…

…is a card l’ve received today from dear friend Barbara

because it’s much funnier than what l was going to send.

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I fear there might have been some misunderstanding

with Sunday’s cartoon… it wasn’t me that got the clocks

going back wrong it was the vicar, and the congregation,

having put their clocks forward would have been waiting

2 hours for him to arrive. I’ll try not to be so obtuse in the

future but l can’t guarantee it. Tx

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A sequel to Friday’s.Another painting by Klimt (Hope 1). Tx

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I hope some of you might recognise this

famous painting (The Kiss) by Gustav Klimt,

one of my favourite artists. Tx

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In case you haven’t seen, NASA have landed

successfully a Rover on the surface of Mars this week.

For anyone who’s interested…

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun, has 2 moons,

takes 687 Earth days to orbit the Sun and a day on

Mars takes 24 hours and 37 minutes.

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Obviously Trevor’s local ‘Vaccination Centre is in the local Fire Station

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Open the word doc. for the story behind this picture Ponce

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If any of you have a fear of needles or you’re not sure about

having the vaccination, don’t be put off by my cartoons.

Hilary and I had ours yesterday and it was totally painless

and no after effects.

Regards, Trevor

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This is a painting by Andrew Wyeth (1948)

entitled ‘Christina’s World’.

I hope you will know it or at least Google it.

The distant male figure and the measuring

tape are not in the original painting. Tx

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Waiting at Boots Pharmacy last week l had time to study

their wonderful ‘all singing all dancing’ weighing machine

and this cartoon followed… Tx

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Had this idea when Trump announced he would not attend the

inauguration on 20th January but l think his advisers would surely

persuade him to go, so, l needed to think of a way of using it now.

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Little bit rude – blame my sister BEM who gave me the idea.

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Today’s cartoon…

A couple of weeks ago, NASA announced that they had

discovered water on the moon and that they will be

sending astronauts to the moon again in 2024.

These two announcements triggered today’s cartoon.

The water is in rock in shaded areas that have never

been exposed to sunlight and is permanently frozen.

There are only a few 100 parts per million and it is

far less than that found in the Sahara Desert.

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Driving back from Worthing last week this was the scene (apart from the twitchers) and the only cyclist l saw was riding on the pavement.We have lots of ‘Covid-19 Pop up Cycle Lanes’ popping up in towns in Sussex in case you don’t have them but rarely any cyclists on them. Tx

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Very strange,as a friend I spoke to earlier today, assured me he sat up to watch his radio controlled clocks change the hour at 2 am.

He assures me that they go forward 23 hours!

Trevor

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…..I’m sending this today when it is MOST topical instead

of the Wednesday Watercolour which l will send this Friday.

Mars was at less than 36 million miles away yesterday and will

not be this close again until September 2035 and can be as

distant as 250 million miles. (Educational as well as amusing).

Regards, Trevor

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I heard the exact quote – Hilary talking to a neighbour

walking past…!!

Trevor

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THE ART CLASS SORTED!

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I painted this cartoon back in April but have been keeping until approaching the end of ‘self isolation’. Trevor

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Now will you wear a mask Donald?

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Hi ALL, Today’s cartoon. l hope people know this painting by Jan Van Eyck.

It is of an Italian merchant Giovanni di Armolfini and his wife in their

residence in Bruges (1434) and it hangs in the National Gallery.

Regards, Trevor

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SUBTLE VARIATION OF PREVIOUS CARTOON

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“ I’m working on my latest version of The Last Supper”

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I saw this 1850 ‘Punch’ cartoon in this month’s BBC ‘History’ magazine

and that triggered this week’s cartoon. Trevor

Caption reads:

1850 version: Punch cartoon praising the PM’s repeal of the Corn Law that made bread affordable for the poor.

2020 version: ‘No bread but we have still got toilet rolls!’

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Trevor’s Watercolours

NOTE! WATERCOLOUR PAINTINGS ARE NOW REARRANGED WITH THE LATEST AT THE TOP.

More from our Japanese visit. This is the ‘Peace Dome’ in

Hiroshima, a building that was directly below the atomic

bomb dropped on 6th August 1945. The resultant pressure

wave pushed downwards on the dome and it survived but

everything radially outwards was flattened.

This has been conserved as a memorial. Tx

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…number 3 from my 2000 Japanese sketchbook.

This is a very fast ‘scribble’ done while my non-painter

companions went to view inside.

It is of the Miyajima Itsukushma Shrine, Hiroshima. Tx

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Our first morning in Kyoto and l’m up at 6 sketching

the early morning sunrise from our hotel. Tx

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Our Japanese holiday started off very well –

we had booked ‘cheap’ flights via Copenhagen, but when

we checked in at Heathrow we were offered $200 each if

we would change to a direct BA flight that left a couple of

hours later but arrived in Tokyo at the same time !

Bit of a no brainer that gave us time for a leisurely breakfast

and to do the sketch of last week’s WW of the BA Jumbo.

AND my sister and husband received a bottle of champagne

from BA because it was their wedding anniversary !

Japanese sketchbook

Today’s watercolour scribble was done from the Shinkansen

‘Bullet Train’ as it whistled through the Japanese countryside

at very high speed as we travelled from Tokyo to Kyoto, the

old capital of Japan, on the first day in my sketchbook.

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I had a wonderful holiday in Japan 22 years ago with my

sister, her husband and one of her daughters and, whilst

there we were taken about by her life-long Japanese friend.

The next next few week’s watercolours will be from my

Japanese sketch book, starting with today’s done while

we were waiting in the departure lounge. Tx

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Yet another from the Hill’s gallery.

This is looking towards Westminster Bridge, London. Tx

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Bruges

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Gardens behind the Temple law area in London.

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St.Paul’s Cathedral.

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Broadway,Worcestershire

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The curator of the Hill’s Gallery in Florida (the lovely Nancy)

has sent me a bunch of some of the 75 of my paintings that

they have.

Enough to keep the Wednesday Watercolour going for a few

months. This one is of St Paul’s Cathedral.

Please ignore the reflections in the glass.

Regards, Trevor

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Don’t know where, done from a photo. Tx

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Polperro

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Gold Hill (Hovis Ad) in Shaftsbury, another ‘pen and wash’.

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A pen and wash of the Mermaid Inn in Rye.

This one is, like last week’s, hanging in the

* ‘Hills Gallery’ in Florida.

*(Hilary’s son’s house). TX

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This is a pen and wash of ‘The Shambles’ in York

and is now hanging in the Hills’ Gallery, Florida. Tx

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An atmospheric painting of an aircraft on a steam catapult.

Exhibited at Mall Gallery in 2013 GAvA Annual Exhibition. Tx

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Meteor Mk4 and a Hurricane in the Tangmere Aviation Museum.

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The house across the street from Mark and Nancy’s in Harmony, Fla.

(Pen and wash). Tx

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Today’s watercolour is another from a 2012 sketchbook

of the White House (Durrell’s) in Kalami, Corfu. Tx

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This was a demo l did of the church in Farnham where

l was a choirboy from the age of 5 until my voice broke. Tx

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This is a pair of de Havilland Venoms that followed the Vampire. Tx

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On holiday in Crete a lovely young Dutch girl had

noticed me sketching and asked if l could do a

portrait of her parents for their wedding anniversary.

How could l refuse. Tx

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I can’t remember where this is but the boats are FY

and that’s Fowey in Cornwall. Tx

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This is a Lockheed “Shooting Star” at Tangmere Aviation Museum. Tx

Also known as the P-80 or T33 trainer.

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Another flower painting! Tx

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I don’t do many flower paintings but this one just worked. Tx

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…scribble from my holiday sketchbook of

Sidmouth in early morning mist.

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This is one of my favourites, shown at the 2010 Guild

of Aviation Artists Annual exhibitions at the Mall Gallery.

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Venice

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Polperro Harbour

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A New York bridge

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Looe,Cornwall

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Castle Combe in the snow.

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From one of my sketchbooks.

This is a friend’s house in Harmony, Florida,

complete with sand cranes in the foreground.

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Something different again. If anyone is a little prudish

they shouldn’t look ‘cos it’s of naked full frontal sex…

– or are they fighting? Tx

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..a bit different aviation painting.

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French cafe painted 11 years ago.

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Painted live at a charity cricket match.

Had a ‘blind auction’ for it that raised £200 + for St Catherine’s.

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This is a Virgin Atlantic Airbus in their maintenance

hangar at Heathrow, about 10 years ago. Tx

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This is of the dovecot at Nymans (NT) in

Sussex from one of my sketchbooks 2009. Tx

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I had a super holiday in Japan about 20 years ago and this

from my sketchbook of a scene on the Izu peninsular south

of Tokyo. Tx

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Some old alms-houses in Croydon that I painted in 2003. Tx

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This is a Royal Aircraft Factory BE2 (Farnborough in WW1

before it became the Royal Aircraft Establishment) painted

in the RAF museum Hendon in 2017.

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A recent painting from a photograph (not my preferred method)

of Hilary’s granddaughter’s ‘puppy’ a 7 stone big softie and still

growing.

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This is of an English Electric Lightning in the Gatwick

Aviation Museum in Charlwood, well worth a visit.

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Somewhere on the Appalachian Trail, USA.

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Today’s watercolour…

Done at Itchenor in Sussex 4 years ago and finished

with the incoming tide lapping at my feet.

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Today’s watercolour is an unusual composition of two aircraft

in the IWM museum at Duxford, a Hastings and a Sunderland

either side of a Bedford truck….

Hence I gave it the title of “Hastings to Sunderland via Bedford”.

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…another fast loose scribble from a 2012 sketchbook.

This is of a young family on the same beach in Kalami,

Corfu as the one l sent a month ago of ‘The White House’

(Durrell’s house). That sketch was done from the taverna

in the background of this painting.

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Godhill Isle of Wight

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…this is another very quick, very loose scribble from

one of my old sketch books and it is of Broadstairs.

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Sopwith Snipe replica

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Something a bit different…

I’ve been looking through some of my old sketch books which l use when on holiday or out for the day.They are ‘pen and wash’, usually done very quickly and l sketch lightly with a fine fibre point pen, slosh a bit of paint on and then tighten up with pen again.

This picture is from a holiday in Corfu and is of the White House’ that the Durrell’s once owned in Kalami Bay.It is now a restaurant. I was sat in a beach side cafe. TX

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….whenever I painted in public, and today’s painting was

done as a demo at the Mall Gallery, I would always ask

kids if they would like to have a go (the adults always refused)

and this photo shows one of my little helpers at this one.

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This is of a Catalina amphibious aircraft that was in

the GAvA annual exhibition at the Mall Gallery – and sold!

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Fleet Street looking towards St Paul’s.

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Today’s watercolour… something different.

Way back in the 70’s I received a request from the

Director of RAE Farnborough to design a table plan

for a special dinner that he was hosting and this is

what I came up with.

Can’t think why, but l was never asked to do one

again. Tx

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Looe,Cornwall

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The Capitol building Washington DC, from a photo

l took on the open top tour bus about 4 years ago.

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The DH Vampire – became operational just after the war

and was the second jet aircraft in service with the RAF after

the Gloster Meteor which did see action during the war.

This one l painted in the Gatwick Aviation Museum.

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Beddgelert

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Polperro

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The story of this painting (opens in word doc.) Monarch

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Clovelly

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The story of this painting (opens in word doc.) Curtis-Wright TravelAir

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There is a story attached to this painting.Please open this word doc.

We have the main route along the south coast running

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….my latest and most topical, finished on Sunday.

My neighbour asked for a nativity scene, to be mounted

on an 8×4 feet board in her church on Christmas eve.

I painted on 15×22 inch sheets of paper so it’s a bit of a

jig-saw puzzle. Tx

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Castlecombe Devon

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Venice from my own photo, Tx

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There is a story attached to this painting.Please open this word doc. Horatio’s Garden

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OK – another aeroplane already but its not just a picture

of an aircraft. This has Samuel Franklin Cody waving to the

crowd as he flies past at Hendon in 1911, 3 years after he

had made the first ever flight in Britain.

Not many people had ever seen men flying before.

Two years later Cody and a passenger died when another of

his aircraft broke up 200 feet above the Farnborough airfield.

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Grumman Avenger

This one I painted as a demonstration at the Guild of Aviation Artists Annual Exhibition at The Mall Gallery.

I was standing at the entrance to the gallery making passers-by aware that there was an exhibition of aviation paintings going on.

If any children showed an interest inwhat l was doing, l always asked them if they would like to have a go. It was usually little girls that accepted my offer– the boys seemed to be a bit more shy and Laurenhelped with this one. (Note the signature).

PS. I did get to fly in one of these aircraft, a Grumman Avenger,in the early days of my time at RAE Farnborough. Did a few catapult launches as a flight test observer in it.

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