Rough sketch

[Daydream believer]

Life is a lottery. You either win or you lose

 

[Stemar]

The lottery is like alcohol...it’s to make you forget the humdrum

Yes, but if it makes you ignore the humdrum, that's a problem - for both lottery and booze.

On the rare occasions I buy a ticket, I forget it and get on with my life until after the draw. Then I sigh, throw away the ticket and get on with my life.

I'm still not sure if my reaction to a £200M win would be yippee or oh shit, but it might be nice to find out.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

I can’t remember the last time I bought a lottery ticket. But, when I do win, just 2 phone calls to make. One to the wife unless sheks leaning over my shoulder. The next to Darren Newton, Multimarine. I can assure you all that his boats don’t roll.

 

[Supertramp]

You know I am (or was) a pretty decent artist...everyone has always enjoyed my art and I was able to earn a living from it as a youngster.....here is how it all started....
As a very young boy we emigrated to New Zealand (£10 pom)...we left school and sold up before getting stuck in the seaman’s strike for six weeks, then the ship to NZ took another six weeks...I had missed a lot of school.... but when I got to school in NZ a funny thing happened.... I was more advanced academically than my classmates (I put this down to my inborn intelligence and the English school system being a higher grade....because my extremely thick older brother fitted straight in)...in more enlightened times I would have skipped a class...but it was a long time ago. So instead of doing any lessons... I was allowed to spend an entire school year all day every day drawing.... and I drew boats and ships...nothing else

I used to draw endless designs and sketches. My mother had a set of sailing stories by Aubrey de Selincort and I used to paint scenes from the books.

 

[Bajansailor]

I used to draw endless designs and sketches. My mother had a set of sailing stories by Aubrey de Selincort and I used to paint scenes from the books.

That painting of yours is simply wonderful Supertramp!
Would it be too much like Thread Drift to ask you to post some more photos of your creations - or maybe better to start a new thread about them perhaps?

 

[Supertramp]

That painting of ours is simply wonderful Supertramp!
Would it be too much like Thread Drift to ask you to post some more photos of your creations - or maybe better to start a new thread about them perhaps?

Thanks.

I will - I need to find them first!

 

[dgadee]

Life is a lottery. You either win or you lose

Only the winners view it as a game.

 

[Supertramp]

Took a while to find them amongst the lifetime debris.

Old school watercolour.



An OOD 34 "Quinta" I used to sail on out of Lymington.



One for Wansworth (and me)


My father's Centaur with claw ring boom downhaul and trailing log!

 

[Wansworth]

Great pictures……I can see myself at the helm….they deserve framing!

 

[Bouba]

Took a while to find them amongst the lifetime debris.

Old school watercolour.

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An OOD 34 "Quinta" I used to sail on out of Lymington.

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One for Wansworth (and me)
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My father's Centaur with claw ring boom downhaul and trailing log!

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Supertramp, are you sure you didn’t steal those pictures from Martin ?

 

[Daydream believer]

My daughter in law's effort, one morning off st Lawrence Bay, the other side of the river, as the tide turned

 

[Supertramp]

Supertramp, are you sure you didn’t steal those pictures from Martin ?

One and the same. Since moved on to more abstract art. I don't think I could return to that level of detail now!

 

[Bouba]

I haven’t kept any of my artwork over the years.....and I no longer do any...except occasionally as a project for my French teacher....this one runs on the theme of my trials and tribulations with French artisans .....it’s actually harder to write the script than draw the cartoons...which are only funny if you know what I look like and how I dress (a common theme for me)

 

[Bouba]

Here’s another one…I was about to go off on a hiking holiday and this was to show my French teacher that I would be studying for the DELF B2 exam while I was away….

 

[Frogmogman]

Lotteries are just a tax on the poor

Or rather, as Jock Bruce Gardyne pointed out in the national Lottery debate in the House of Lords, “The lottery is just a tax on people who are bad at maths”.

 

[dgadee]

Or rather, as Jock Bruce Gardyne pointed out in the national Lottery debate in the House of Lords, “The lottery is just a tax on people who are bad at maths”.

A friend used to give out historic building funding. He would ask the never ending stream of religious looking for funding for their roof, "And do you do the lottery yourself?"

 

[Supertramp]

Here’s another one…I was about to go off on a hiking holiday and this was to show my French teacher that I would be studying for the DELF B2 exam while I was away….

A rare talent to caricature yourself!

I used to do copies of Mike Peyton cartoons for cards. This could also feature in the "how to handle long keelers" posts.

 

[westernman]

Sketch of lottery win cruiser

How about this capable little 21ft cabin cruiser? Capable of flying across the Atlantic ocean in no time at all.

 

[Supertramp]

I have just made some cup holders for on deck for my boat. I would need to redesign them for this. Plus pack several more sets of underwear.

 

[Bouba]

A rare talent to caricature yourself!

I used to do copies of Mike Peyton cartoons for cards. This could also feature in the "how to handle long keelers" posts.
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For me, the hardest thing with a cartoon is coming up with a script and a scene in my head....transferring it to paper happens remarkably quickly