Caricature by Angella.
The Arits's NameAngela Lansbury is abbreviated to Angella.
Developing A Drawing
I set out to draw cleaning but to make it fun, following the Mary Poppins principle, in every job that must be done there is an element of fun.
2 My original drawing simply had me and the feather duster. Dust is to small to draw. How about a spider's web. I added that. How about adding a spider? I added that.
But the lady with the feather mop is not looking at the spider. So I turned her eyes towards it. But its eyes should be turned towards her.
Humorous Expression
To add humour I made the spider apprehensive, looking sideways suspiciously at the lady. I remember the common saying, he or she or it is more scared than you are.
To add humour, exaggerate the eyes or mouth or hair or any feature.
In the picture notice the scared spider, three ways of catching a spider, the feather duster, the glass, and the vacuum cleaner.
Ideas come to you as you research. Look up spiders in Wikipedia to learn when and why the females and males build webs. An abandoned web is known as a cobweb.
Adding Colour
The Green thing on wheels is my David brand small pull along vacuum cleaner.
I looked at the vacuum cleaner in the picture and though it should be plugged in. I oved up the socket so the eye goes up the page.towards the spider.
I used water colour pencils by Faber-Castell.
I used the cap of a juice bottle as a water container when working on the paint at my desk.
Castell is German for castle.
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About the Author
Angela Lansbury, is a semi-retired travel writer still researching bucket list countries and seeking out the special, unusual, people, places, landmarks, hotels, museums and trails, fabulous foods, recipes, clothes and online souvenir shopping.
Angela Lansbury is a member of Toastmasters International.
About the Author Angela Lansbury
The Author - Quick Quotations
Angela Lansbury B A Hons is the author of ten books by regular publishers plus another ten self-published books.
About Angela The Speaker & Trainer
Angela Lansbury is a teacher of English and other languages to Toastmasters clubs and businesses.
Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Vice President Public Relations, Immediate Past President. VPPR
Former Area Director S3. Club Coach for Nee Soon South Toastmasters Club.
Also Member of: TCA Toastmasters Club; Singapore Online Dynamic; Harrovians UK
Past meetings have included Garen Tee on using story telling in business, on
bha.learncool.sg/meet/bha .
Recent meetings of BHA included an educational session on using Powerpoint for posters.
Next BHA meetings, always first Wednesday evening, 7 pm Singapore time. Next meeting is the third Saturday afternoon, June 19th 2pm Singapore time. Inauguration of the new committee by the incoming Director of S, plus a lively speech on teamwork.
Angela The Blogger
Angela has several blogs speeches, comedy and song writing and organizing, writing intermittently, but writes almost daily on these three:
See many varied posts such as the post on sculptor Tom Harvey.
Please share links to your favourite posts.
