Prelude to a Halloweeneememe
Sunday October 29, 2006 in meme |
In the build up to Hallowee’en, I decided to draw a scary drawing. Partly for the amusement of my daughter and her friend, and partly for my own. Surrounded by several horror film books (and I appear to have a lot of them) I decided on the traditional. Boris Karloff from the original and best Frankenstein of 1931.
My daughter and her friend stumbled across me before I’d finished my picture. It was all planned of course, because part of the satisfaction of doing such things is the interest and admiration you can sometimes receive from children. The positive comments on my artwork, however, soon changed to slight concern as I gingerly began to tell the story of Frankenstein’s monster. Because, after all, it is pretty scary. Before I’d finished explaining the bolt through the neck, the castle and the insane professor, the operating table, the thunderstorm and the mad, torch wielding avenging mob, they were gone.
Alone again to finish my drawing, which you will see on the 31st.