The illustration above by myself was made in 1987 for my ‘World Safari‘ school project.  This particular drawing featured lower right with a poem by Leslie Norris entitled ‘Tiger’ carefully handwritten onto the A4 page by myself.

Likely I chose this poem to represent the fearsome reputation of wild tigers, perhaps in semblance of my Dad’s favourite poem ‘The Tyger’ by William Blake.

I think the cougar shown above is standing quite proudly.

I love the defensive feisty nature of this wild cat shown above.  If you look at my online blog signature here…:

… you should see I’ve fashioned this from my original first signature script style dating back to the mid-to-late 1980’s.  My Grandad George gave me the idea for how to write my signature.  From there I practiced continuously, writing my signature over and over again.

The truth is I only stopped using this scrolly signature in my late teens to early 20’s in exchange for the speed of signing my name.

Please note I’ve added two new work in progress photographs of my ‘type‘ pop artwork series of paintings.  You can view them towards the end of the article, link here: As Yet Unfinished Pop Artwork Studies in Progress.

You will appreciate I’ve much to complete on these two pop art paintings.