geraldgee

Monday, 23 February 2009

FAIRGROUND

1970 Oil on cupboard door........think I must have been broke

MG Super Sports

The drawing by my dad of the car to be seen in

Sunday, 22 February 2009

Fashion page for the discerning lady.

Geraldgee's slimming hints and tips column

Stick to cakes

Saturday, 21 February 2009

my father Leslie Grimes 1898~1983

Illustration forBoys book of Motorcycles 1928

After a long and bitter struggle I have"painter Classic" back.My own copy refused to reload and the one that a brother sent me insisted I didn't have enough space.
It turned out to be a bug in the programme but there was a fix,far too complicated for me so expensive help was bought in and even he struggled as my security said the fix was a Trojan and wiped the program. security was unrelenting so security had to be replaced with a more compliant one and EUREKA I have a plain sensible drawing programme again. (fingers crossed)

Friday, 20 February 2009

Studio in Essex

My father Leslie Grimes at work in his studio in Essex,he was a cartoonist for a London evening paper right through the war and for the last few years of it moved the family out to the country to live in Strood villa on the Essex marshes. The painting on the right is one of his ,he was a very proficient painter,the desk on the left was mine where I was supposed to be drawing but if he looked over his shoulder out of the window he most probably would have seen me sailing a boat out on the Pyefleet marshes,far better than edification?

Blog author in flight......1944

You may have noticed this blog is big on pictures and short on words.
This is because I did my schooling in wartime when teachers were usually exceedingly old and couldn't see the back of the classroom enabling me to be drawing,looking out of the window or having a quiet chat,anything but study. however I was good at drawing and sports so that got me off the hook. I then left school at fourteen and was apprenticed to my father as an artist and spent the next three years sailing boats on the Essex marshes and keeping out of my fathers way who was very decent about it. then a short spell at art school studying girls as my time was short because at 18 I had to do national service and two years in the army. So education never really came into it,thank god for spellcheck but they don't do one for grammar punctuation etc hence big on pictures,short on words.

Home front

And make some nice cheap gas instead of that Russian stuff

Old geezers test

This is for blokes of my age who were children in WW2 and should be able to easily recognise all the aircraft above (except the Japanese ones) that filled the skys most days. Some could be recognised by sound alone,spitfire and hurricane with merlin engines especially. At night the German bombers by their desynchronized motors and resultant throb. I notice the Doodle bug (flying bomb)not in here which had the nastiest and noisiest engine of all but even more frightening when the engine stopped!...............click picture to enlarge