This story is from late 2000. When I made this I was thinking of my old friend Jayant Karnick. He was a little guy like Mahatma Coat, from Jabalpur India, and a little bit of a wheeler dealer. Quite a character. He died too young. I miss him.

Notice the lettering. I created font suitcases with four different fonts for each letter, both in lower case and caps. Then I wrote a little routine to rotate through the font suitcases as I typed. The letters are nice, but sometimes the kerning wasn’t quite right. After a year or so I went back to lettering everything by hand. But as I look at this it looks like for this story I didn’t rotate the suitcases.

I found that old painting I told you about last week. It was in a closet behind a bunch of clothes, face to the wall…

WHOA!

From 1997…

Back tomorrow.

Mr. Grace is on vacation…

Hey, I’m on vacation. But not to worry. Mert Nertman is going to cover for me. Get ready for a week of big laughs!

A friend was over Friday and we were talking. I don’t know how it came up, but I got out an old copper sheet thing that I made in 9th grade. It was one of those pictures that you sort of bang out. It was of a charging lion. I painted some green grass, and around the lion I painted it black. The only reason I kept it all of these years was because I might need a piece of copper. I had cut about three chunks out of it. She thought it was a masterpiece. I gave it to her. I’ll see if I can get a photo next time I’m at her house. But then I showed her a painting I did when I was 15 or 16. She thought it should  be in the Louvre. Here it is:

What a masterpiece! Somewhere I have another painting that i did about the same time. It started out as a naked lady in front of a mirror. After a couple days I gave up. I wasn’t really sure what a naked lady looked like. I turned it in to a table with a flower pot and a dead fish. I’ll see if I can find it.

 This one is from September 2008

I love the Antiques Roadshow.