paris sketchbook '94

Marion and Jo (you know who you are) are proving rather difficult to capture on paper at present due to a breakdown in talent, inspiration and perseverence, so as a thinly-veiled diversionary tactic, it's time to answer the 'tea-powered scribbles' mailbag which isn't literally bursting at the seams.

An electronic epistle has been sent from a Mr P. McGladdery of Oldham, Lancs. He writes (with reference to recent postings):

"Can I be on your blog? My absence seems ridiculous given I am both a soul star and almost a Yorkshire man".

Well, Mr P's letter had the 'tea-powered scribbles' team rummaging through the archives and they had to go all the way back to the box marked 'September 1994' to unearth an A6 Daler Rowney sketchbook with a picture of the aforementioned correspondent in it. You'll recall that Mr P. played Passepartout to our own Phineas Fogg on a 80-day tour around the world* that year and that 'tea-powered scribbles' kept a detailed visual chronicle** of everything encountered along the way. Over the next few days then, we intend to share with you some of the pages from that September 1994 sketchbook and it seems only reasonable, given the original request, that we begin with an inky likeness of a certain Mr McGladdery. Enjoy.

*We went to Paris for about a week.

**I did some drawings while I was there.