Murphyswave
I've been away. Maybe I should get in some guest writers I have remarked before on the durability of quality animation. Emma Calder made Murphyswave drawing in 1986 and I swear no-one would have known it was not released yesterday. Emma's heroine is half woman, half vacuum cleaner. Well to be exact, her bottom half is machine the top half rather attractive woman, at least she is when she dolls herself up and ventures out of the house. Before that though there's an awful lot of hoovering and dusting to be done.
Her only relationship appears to be with her black cat. Oh, and have I mentioned the housework. Apart from one moment when the vinyl on the turntable transports her back to her holidays at the seaside and she is happy, the woman has a lonely life up there in her multi-storey apartment surrounded by photographs of the cats. Cue for a spot of make-up at the mirror and off she goes to join similarly rather lonely women at the bingo hall.
After a break from drawing – ( a couple of years!). I was overcome with the desire to sketch a person. My daughter was just the subject and was happy to pose while I tried to remember how to shade again.
