Just like the bobble head
Of Dorian Gray
Okay, yes, you're quite right, this is a response to another prompt on Sketching Every Day. The prompt was 'bobble head day'. Now, when I saw the words bobble head, I immediately thought back to an episode of the TV show "Pawn Stars". I don't know if you've ever seen it. Basically it's a reality TV show which centres on the day-to-day business of the Gold and Silver Pawn shop in Las Vegas. I'll make no bones about it, it's a show I enjoy, mainly because I tend to think that Rick Harrison, being an incorrigible history buff and knowall is cut very much from the same sort of cloth as myself.
In the particular episode of the show that I was alluding to, a customer brings in a set of Beatles bobble heads, one of many, many items manufactured when Beatlemania hit the USA. This gave me the idea of sketching the Paul McCartney bobble head, but, as a twist, sketching his face as it looks now, more than 50 years later. Cruel? Not intended to be, just struck me as an interesting thing to do.
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