It’s not long now until the big day, May 7th, where (hopefully) millions of people will be sticking up for their rights and voting on who’s next in office.
I’m not one for getting caught up in political rhetoric, vote for whomever you think will be the best, the power lies with you.
Scarecrows on the other hand, never really do well in politics. Every time they get into a debate all they come out with are straw man arguments.
One of the three peep boards created for the Morecambe Carnival
Fingers crossed for perfect weather because it’s the Morecambe Carnival this weekend in it’s second year. It was fantastic last year and the organisers are hoping to better it. Knight Time Creations was hired to add a touch of colour to the festivities with some traditional sea side peek boards. The three boards, each measuring four foot by eight foot, took over 16 hours to design and paint. We kept the costs down by just buying five tins of paint, red, yellow, blue, black and white and mixing the colours together as and when needed.
All the black line work was completed using a Letraset marker pen, which I bought from the lovely Studio Arts on North Road in Lancaster. My trusty colleague Jon Bailey and I worked tirelessly to finish the three boards in time for the big weekend.
One board is a typical sea side poster design of a curvy lady and a skinny man, the second board is a Punch and Judy show in full swing and the third is a tribute to Morecambe’s favourite son, Eric, in his well known pose from the statue on the sea front.
I’ll be attending the carnival on both days offering hand drawn temporary tattoos from my stall in the retail area near to the Midland Hotel.
The tattoo stall at the Morecambe Carnival
This week’s cartoon went down really quite well on social media, which just goes to show that people must have the kind of sense of humour I do. I hope that little bear was welcomed at the party regardless, he seems so disappointed.
A local woman has, this week, given birth to a baby boy weighing nearly 12lbs. I thought of a lot of different things I could do for the cartoon, as I’m sure can you, but it’s important to consider the style of the publication.
I decided to go with the well known cliché, men’s inability to comprehend the mysteries of women.
Easter in Lancaster this year was a little bit on the obscure side. Great clouds of fog rolled in from somewhere and made quite a few days that week hard to see. The afternoons turned out nice though on same days, you never can tell which way a day is going to go around here.
In the news recently, there’s been a nude dude roaming around Morecambe. Well, I say roaming, but apparently it was more like jogging. You don’t see that every day!
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