Water is tricky to draw. First, you turn on both the hot water and the cold and then stick your hand under it. When it feels just right, you plug the drain. When enough water has run into the tub, you sit down, and inevitably you’ll feel like you’re being boiled alive. Water is also tricky to depict. I was getting better at it when this cartoon ran in 1995. The wave in the first panel doesn’t look very convincing, but the foam in the last three panels looks about right. When drawing water (with a pen), less is more. Water is about negative space, what you don’t draw. That’s the way it is for me, anyway.
Wavering
By Jimmy Johnson
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248 responses to “Wavering”
My wife says I can look at other gals, but she gets to cut off whatever I touch them with.
Good morning, Villagers. I had to help with a piercing repair that had gone bad, and it wasn’t oretty. Some people (I use the term loosely)
Village Loon: Love it!
Wife and I were good about admiration of hunks and dolls*, respectively, and even appropriate hugs. Complete trustworthiness is a great gift.
*Two chauvinist terms, but it’s ok if they are properly paired.
Earlier on, I goofed. ‘H.M.S. Pinafore’ is not an acronym. FEMA and NASA are, if sounded as words. ‘H.M.S. Pinafore’ is an anagram; Gilbert was an expert at word play of various sorts.
Anagram of what?
“Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.”
Casey Kasem (1932 – 2014)
Lily: I’ll tell, but later. First let’s see if anybody can work it out; maybe someone else in the Village already knows. I’d been an avid Savoyard for > six decades before somebody brought it to my attn.
I know, but I’ll let Lily guess. Hint: It’s very obvious…once you know it.
I believe I previously mentioned that HMS Pinafore and HMS Bloomers were once engaged in a sea battle by the French frigate Bustier.
Something for your history forum, Lily. 🙂
I don’t do guesses or word games. And my history forum is about facts 😛
“name for ship”?
“. . . my history forum is about facts.” c x-p got it right, and it is historical fact that Wm. S. Gilbert, the most noted British playwright of his day, was casting about for a name for a fictitious ship. I don’t know if we have any record of the chain of events in his coming up with the anagram.
All I know is they were steamed about naming a non-seaman as First Sea Lord
“Stay close to your desk and never go to sea….”
Lily:
Maybe. I suspect Gilbert was dealing with something which was ‘business as usual’ in British politics, and doubt he was particularly steamed. To my knowledge, Gilbert never published essays that directly revealed his political leanings. If an ideological theme runs through the Savoy operas, it is that neither nobility nor wealth is man at his best, but rather individual creativity, i.e., men like himself, Sullivan, maybe other artists, and maybe scientists, engineers, and such. He was a racist and probably male chauvinist [that ‘man’ and ‘his best’ are intentional], perhaps a religious skeptic [he makes fun of both Catholics, at length, and Methodists, briefly], that is to say a normal literate, probably nominally Anglican, Victorian Brit.
Queen Victoria knighted Sullivan, but Sir Joseph Porter, Major General Stanley, and Gilbert’s take on the House of Peers, were perhaps a little much for her. Her son, King Edward VII, knighted Gilbert.
Since we’re speaking of the sea………….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz2tzdFneRI&feature=kp
tag
(Had a good day at work….spoke with my father, and at the age of 83, he decided to get dentures…..I love my Daddy….told him at the age of 83, who cares whether you wear your dentures or not……..)
Hope the fathers here had a greatfull day 🙂
Happy Father’s Day!
Got to run, chaos beckons.
Darn it Indy Mindy…thought we could get into a little bit of a Hoosier tag with Mellencamp….don’t work hard….or late…be safe….
GR 😉
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4KUmm0XsLY
This is such a naughty song…..but only if you want to…….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4KUmm0XsLY
😉
I quit…
I can’t remember who was asking for the Steve Canyon books the other day, but I do remember he commented on the prices. Try looking at the links at this site: http://www.bookfinder.com/search/?new_cache=on&author=milt+caniff&title=&lang=en&isbn=&new_used=*&destination=us¤cy=USD&mode=basic&st=sr&ac=qr
Nope…..too many right clicks forget the above link it’s a repeat,….spin around and round….
this will get me in trouble…. 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKrcvol1NsM
Now, I quit, and this all started because I was in search of a particular song by Cougar….and I found it…took me awhile…but your life is now…….
Debbe 😉 Thought you meant songs about the sea, not naughty songs. Although there are certainly lots of naughty sea songs. 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCmUhYSr-e4
Look but don’t touch has long been the motto in our family for the both of us, and has worked quite well, and you are right, eMb, trustworthiness is a great gift.
Debbe, I looked at the site for the big flags, and was very impressed. They must look wonderful flying in a good breeze.
Today’s Sunday A and J comic strip, I cannot figure out for the life of me. People on the Dark Side have offered solutions (very politely) but none of them seems just right. Who is Janis talking to and looking at in the last panel, and don’t tell me she is eating ice cream out of the package with that big serving spoon. Looks like she is now getting ready to put some in a bowl, but is it for herself, for Arlo, or for the cat?
And who put Ludwig’s food in the dish — Janis herself, or Arlo? An intelligent bunch like you folks can find an explanation that fits.