This post, (the first in a series, which forces my doodles upon you all), was originally titled ‘When You Run Out of Words’, but then my lady-wife began this thing called {a little glimpse}, which, coincidentally is designed to showcase your doodles, sketches, work in progress stuff etc.
So here it is…
The Boy With a Pan on His Head.
The end.
A few other posts you might find interesting:
During magpie nesting season here in Sydney, the birds swoop anyone near their gum tree and peck your head or grab hair clips, elastics etc.
So kids riding bikes wear helmets to protect themselves from brain damage and magpies. Preschools use empty ice cream buckets to protect kids’ heads when playing outside.
This picture reminds me of my local preschool that must have run out of ice cream buckets each magpie season so gave some kids aluminium saucepans instead. Seemed perfectly normal while I was growing up. But then, so did a lot of things that I have since learned not to talk about if I want friends.
That is awesome. I spy a niche market for non-humiliating magpie-proof head protection for Australian children. The things kids go through as a result of parents saying “Don’t be silly! It looks fine! Everyone wears them!” – bin liners for raincoats, underpants for swimwear, socks for gloves… My biggest childhood misapprehension was the belief that all children in the UK did maypole dancing at primary school. It wasn’t until I got to secondary school that my new friends assured me that, no, none of them used to skip around a pole with a pretty ribon in their hands.
I love that, to you, saucepans seem a weirder thing to put on your head than an ice cream tub. Thank yo for sharing, Monique.
Is that a very small boy, or a very big dog? He’s braver than me either way; I don’t go near dogs, let alone poke them on the nose.
How long does it take to draw something like this?
It is a small boy and a big dog! It took about fifteen to thirty minutes I think.