Here are two pencil sketches I did sometime between 1967 and 1968, around the time I was leaving school. The Beatles had released Sergeant Pepper and the future still hadn’t happened for me. It was a happy time, when I would take my little folding stool and sit in the fresh air with my sketchbook. The coloured versions following the greyscale images below are what I drew recently from those sketches. The moral of this tale is “never throw away your sketches … they may come in useful forty years later” :)

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I am sure you will agree that it would have been a shame if I’d destroyed those little sketches.