Holy God. These just arrived in my mailbox courtesy of the lovely jkluge, who has the originals. They're probably at least 10 years old. I'm LJ-cutting 'cause they're bigses.
Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster and Stephen Fry as Jeeves. Colored pencil.
Aw, bless! They are great. It's my mission in life to get a complete run of Wodehouse in 1st edition, which is obviously not going to happen... I love Bobbie Wickham, she should have had her own books... I love "Thankyou Jeeves"... The Code of the Woosters is maybe my favourite. I love Bertie.
They're both just perfect, aren't they? Lucky, lucky me! (One is now tempted to go into the "luck, luck, luck-luck-luck" clucking routine, considering the Hugh Laurie connection, but will restrain oneself.) Bertie has the quintessential Bertram Wooster expression-- a bit foolish and kindly and dear. Exquisite! And Jeeves! That wonderful dubious, rather pained look. {beam} They're PERFECT.
Not to mention the incredible use of color. I am so awed. And Ann's pen and ink work is just incredible -- flawless. Equally awe-inspiring. I cherish the zines I have containing her gorgeous pen and inks. I could just pore over them for hours. She has such an incomparable talent. She is an Art Goddess.
Thanks, btw, for the "once I built a railroad" thing -- now I've got that song, which I only ever heard on a Spanky and Our Gang album my sister owned (and which we played to death in the '60's), runnin' thru my head. Had to go up on Amazon, find out if they're on CD. They are. Damn you to hell.
I just watched the first two eps of Jeeves and Wooster for the first time this evening. Including the ginger-haired sailors song. *sigh* You have captured the cuteness.
Yeah, yeah. No good deed goes unpunished, I see. ;-)
Someday, I'm going to actually *hang* that gorgeous double portrait. Gotta get a frame and some plexiglass, or whatever that stuff is, from American Frame in OH.
You know, you actually don't have a date on those portraits anywhere. The one I have of Jeeves called "Cocktail Time" is dated '94, though, and I know I got that at *least* a year later.
I challenge ev'rybody to look -- really look at the colors -- all the gorgeous colors! -- that make up the skin tones in Bertie's face. Astounding! {stumbles, but recovers}
And . . . and . . . the people all look like themselves Exquisite vesri . . . very . . . verisimilitude. Serious 'tude. Even in pen and ink. Pen & ink! I bow in your general direction.
Ann? Ann? Where are you? It's all fuzzy, and not just because I don't have my new glasses yet.
{pops up like Jason or whomever in a Halloween movie}
And the delicacy and inventive use of Ann's pen and ink crosshatching with stippling and other shading techniques -- totally unique and kick-ass. The varying methods always *work* together! How does she *do* that?
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Date: 2003-04-09 02:07 pm (UTC)Just, wow.
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Date: 2003-04-09 02:18 pm (UTC)Ahah. You're a kickass artist. I love their expressions.
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Date: 2003-04-09 02:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2003-04-09 03:16 pm (UTC)But I love Psmith & Lord Emsworth too.
Sherlock Holmes
Date: 2003-04-09 04:18 pm (UTC)And he doesn't. Not at all.
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Date: 2003-04-09 05:44 pm (UTC)Not to mention the incredible use of color. I am so awed. And Ann's pen and ink work is just incredible -- flawless. Equally awe-inspiring. I cherish the zines I have containing her gorgeous pen and inks. I could just pore over them for hours. She has such an incomparable talent. She is an Art Goddess.
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Date: 2003-04-09 06:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Get out of my mind!
Date: 2003-04-09 07:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2003-04-10 07:07 am (UTC)Someday, I'm going to actually *hang* that gorgeous double portrait. Gotta get a frame and some plexiglass, or whatever that stuff is, from American Frame in OH.
Shiny!
They're releasing all sorts of old TV on DVD in the UK...I wonder...
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Date: 2003-04-10 12:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Re: Shiny!
But there's so much space!
Date: 2003-04-10 01:36 pm (UTC)There's a soundtrack album, you know...
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Re: Sherlock Holmes
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I want Jeeves in nice hardbacks. The Code of the Woosters is keen. I like The Mating Season also.
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Date: 2003-04-10 08:56 pm (UTC)You still do the most touchable, silky, sink-your-fingers-into-it hair in pen and ink I've ever seen. Incomparable!
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It's for your own good.
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Date: 2003-04-11 08:25 am (UTC)I challenge ev'rybody to look -- really look at the colors -- all the gorgeous colors! -- that make up the skin tones in Bertie's face. Astounding! {stumbles, but recovers}
And . . . and . . . the people all look like themselves Exquisite vesri . . . very . . . verisimilitude. Serious 'tude. Even in pen and ink. Pen & ink! I bow in your general direction.
Ann? Ann? Where are you? It's all fuzzy, and not just because I don't have my new glasses yet.
Zzzzzzzz . . . .
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Date: 2003-04-11 08:27 am (UTC)Jeez.
::covers Jean with scratchy blanket::
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Date: 2003-04-11 08:38 am (UTC)And the delicacy and inventive use of Ann's pen and ink crosshatching with stippling and other shading techniques -- totally unique and kick-ass. The varying methods always *work* together! How does she *do* that?
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::picks up bat again::
POUND!POUND!POUND!POUND!POUND!POUND!POUND!POUND!POUND!
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Date: 2003-04-11 01:07 pm (UTC)