19 January 2025

House Wife July 1961


"it shows the carfully thought out design and general layout  (in this case the shot taken by a high camera angle looking down on the couple.).. .. which i find more interesting." 

Woman Magazine - 22 February 1958

 


One of those Days by Sheila Frazer



07 January 2025

Woman magazine 1959


".I very vaguely remember the photo shots being taken...male model recognisable as Dick Orme...( girl, I don't even remember who she was )..it was quite tricky to get a good  shot,  ....the girl model was quite heavy..Dick was  tall and strong enough to pick her up but the photo had to be taken quick,  without getting any movement which blurred the photo..... also to get a good angle on both faces. ....I remember he picked her up, and put her down many times, before we got enough to work from...."
January 2025

25 December 2024

14 December 2024

23 November 2024

Royal Captive (Grafton - 1988)


Grafton / HarperColli
1988



"That was the period  when the publishers wanted more  'finished'  artwork.. . more in the style of the Italian renaissance painters .. so that's what they got....... it is simply a classical style of painting... ..(apart from the fact that she is a model  fom the 80s; make up and all)
.  i don't know why the scottish castle is in the background...it was nothing to do with James the 1st.  ( unless the writer had used it in the fictional story ?)
i had just done this artwork around the same time....So i knew the true history quite well.."

27 October 2024

Ghost of a Witch (Housewife Magazine)

December 1960

January 1961

"It was a period where i concentrated on the contacts and facial expressions between the people.
....if you flick your eyes from face to face, they almost become animated? 

I remember them.. and the models..  but not the blond model's name (of course).. male model,  Peter Christian ....  little dark girl Paula Noble."

(Michael Johnson, October 2024)

February 1961