The Ern Shaw exhibition closed on Sunday 10th October 2010.
The exhibition was visited by approximately 15,000 people.
I would like to thank the Ferens Art Gallery for giving the people of Hull and around the country the opportunity to see this very talented artists work.
This is a quote from Ern Shaw's book which he wrote in 1946, ‘How to become a successful cartoonist’.
The purpose of the book was to act as a guide and an inspiration to aspiring artists.
“Almost every human being has some valuable gift, and is very much nearer than he thinks to the ladder of success if he would only take the first step and keep on until he got to the top.” Ern Shaw
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Ern Shaw’s work celebrated
Cartoon drawn by patrick BlowerThe Ern Shaw Exhibition Launch day on Saturday 19th June at the Ferens Art Galley Hull was a great success. Many of Ern Shaw’s family and friends visited the gallery and saw some of his work for the very first time. Approximately a 1000 visitors came to the gallery on the day.
The children’s corner in the Ern Shaw gallery was a real hit with the huge cartoon strips to draw on, games and other activities. In the live Arts Space Guardian cartoonist Patrick Blower demonstrated modern drawing techniques using the Wacom tablet. The tablet allows an artist to create a drawing with a cordless pen which displays the image onto a computer screen. 100 visitors went to his workshop and a selection enjoyed the drawing experience during the day.
Outside in Queen Victoria Square was a marquee with face painting, free caricatures drawn by a professional caricaturist Ray Allen, doodle/chalk pavement drawings, and a cartoon strip workshop.
Do not miss the opportunity to see this very talented cartoonists work. The exhibition celebrates the art of cartooning and is suitable for both children and adults to enjoy.
The exhibition runs until Sunday October 10th.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Ern Shaw Exhibition Livedraw cartoon by Patrick Blower
Click on arrow to play livedraw cartoon
Patrick Blower is a cartoonist and multimedia artist who conceived Livedraw. Livedraw is a rapid response, animated cartoon and an intriguing new departure for political cartooning.
The Ern Shaw Exhibition Livedraw was played at the KC Stadium, Hull, when Hull Tigers played Liverpool on 9th May 2010 to a crowd of 25,000.
To see more of Patrick Blower's livedraw cartoons click on this link http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/patrick-blower
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Ern Shaw Exhibition Ferens Art Gallery Hull Saturday 19th June-Sunday 10th October 2010
A quote by Ern Shaw from his book ‘How to become a successful Cartoonist’
"A sense of humour is a valuable asset, both in the case of an individual and a nation. Seeing the funny side, helps to develop our sense of proportion, minimise our troubles and may even change apparent causes of irritation into amusing episodes.”
After researching this very talented artists work for over 3 years I am delighted that the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull will be holding an exhibition of Ern Shaw's work in June this year.
Come and see examples of Ern Shaw’s work drawn from the 1920’s-1980’s. If you are a Hull City Football Club supporter do not miss the opportunity to see a selection of football cartoons drawn by Ern Shaw.
Cartoonist Patrick Blower will be holding workshops from 11.00am-3.00pm during the exhibition launch day on Saturday 19th June so come and see a professional cartoonist at work demonstrating modern day computer drawing equipment. It is also an opportunity for you to have a go too and join in other fun activities.
The exhibition will then continue for another 16 weeks and closes on Sunday 10th October.
I would like to thank everyone who has helped me in my research. I have met and spoken to to a variety of people which has made my research a very enjoyable experience.
For further information concerning the Ern Shaw Exhibition, please click here.
Modern computer drawing equipment today
In the 1980’s, new drawing technology using computers was being developed in Japan. In 1983, the first graphics tablet and cordless pen was launched into the market by the Japanese company Wacom.
Historically, the pen and paintbrush have been the most familiar tools used by man as a means of communication and expression – it is therefore quite natural that in the age of computers, the pen should be rediscovered. Wacom focused on developing and promoting the pen as a means to facilitate creativity in graphics.
What is the Graphics Tablet and Pen?
The Graphics Tablet is a computer device that allows artists, graphic designers, architects, and cartoonists, to hand-draw images and graphics, similar to the way images are drawn with a pencil/pen and paper. It consists of a flat surface upon which the user draws an image using a cordless pen. The image is then displayed on the computer monitor.
Today Wacom has established itself as the leader in the world market for pen tablets and pioneers in the development of the pen as a computer input device. Since the early days in the 1980’s Wacom has continued to develop a wide range of powerful graphics programmes. Today graphics professionals can produce conventional drawings on the computer using the tablets drawing and writing tools – from the paintbrush to the pen and pencil, crayon to charcoal and image editing tools.
"A sense of humour is a valuable asset, both in the case of an individual and a nation. Seeing the funny side, helps to develop our sense of proportion, minimise our troubles and may even change apparent causes of irritation into amusing episodes.”
After researching this very talented artists work for over 3 years I am delighted that the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull will be holding an exhibition of Ern Shaw's work in June this year.Come and see examples of Ern Shaw’s work drawn from the 1920’s-1980’s. If you are a Hull City Football Club supporter do not miss the opportunity to see a selection of football cartoons drawn by Ern Shaw.
Cartoonist Patrick Blower will be holding workshops from 11.00am-3.00pm during the exhibition launch day on Saturday 19th June so come and see a professional cartoonist at work demonstrating modern day computer drawing equipment. It is also an opportunity for you to have a go too and join in other fun activities.
The exhibition will then continue for another 16 weeks and closes on Sunday 10th October.
I would like to thank everyone who has helped me in my research. I have met and spoken to to a variety of people which has made my research a very enjoyable experience.
For further information concerning the Ern Shaw Exhibition, please click here.
Modern computer drawing equipment today
In the 1980’s, new drawing technology using computers was being developed in Japan. In 1983, the first graphics tablet and cordless pen was launched into the market by the Japanese company Wacom.
Historically, the pen and paintbrush have been the most familiar tools used by man as a means of communication and expression – it is therefore quite natural that in the age of computers, the pen should be rediscovered. Wacom focused on developing and promoting the pen as a means to facilitate creativity in graphics.
What is the Graphics Tablet and Pen?
The Graphics Tablet is a computer device that allows artists, graphic designers, architects, and cartoonists, to hand-draw images and graphics, similar to the way images are drawn with a pencil/pen and paper. It consists of a flat surface upon which the user draws an image using a cordless pen. The image is then displayed on the computer monitor.
Today Wacom has established itself as the leader in the world market for pen tablets and pioneers in the development of the pen as a computer input device. Since the early days in the 1980’s Wacom has continued to develop a wide range of powerful graphics programmes. Today graphics professionals can produce conventional drawings on the computer using the tablets drawing and writing tools – from the paintbrush to the pen and pencil, crayon to charcoal and image editing tools.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Ern Shaw and the Cartoonist Club of Great Britain
Ern Shaw became a member of the Cartoonists’ Club of Great Britain when he was in his 80’s. Denis Gifford, (film historian, comic-strip artist, script-writer, film-maker, writer and journalist), encouraged him to become a member and suggested that he attend the convention at Butlins, at Pwllheli in 1972.
The Club was formed in 1960 as a purely social organization by Ian Scott (a political cartoonist in the old Daily Sketch ) with the help of Les Lilly (script-writer). Ian’s idea was that although there were numerous cartoonists around, they did not know one another, therefore the first successful society for professional cartoonists was born.
In 1961 the Christmas party for the club was held at the Presscala Club. Guest of honour was Billy Butlin. During the course of the evening he promised Ian Scott that he would host an annual conference for the club, starting the following May in 1962 at his brand new camp at Bognor Regis. He stuck to his word and offered the facilities for one week free of charge to club members and a discount for family members accompanying them. Sir Billy Butlin, carried on this tradition for the club to hold their yearly conventions at a variety of his camps for over a twenty seven period.
Peter Jacob who is a member of the Cartoonts' Club recalls his first meeting with Ern Shaw:
“Denis Gifford passed on Ern Shaw’s background to my brother Chic Jacob, a cartoonist, illustrator and radio and television comedy scriptwriter, who was chairman of the club at that time and instructed me and other members of the club to make this yearly treat accessible to him.
Ern Shaw was living in Cottingham near Hull at that time and it was arranged for me to collect him from Shrewsbury station, with a friend George Ratcliff, we waited for the train at the station which duly arrived. We expected a typical octogenarian to stagger from the train, instead we saw a large suitcase come off the train followed by another and this gentleman jumped onto the platform. The suitcases were picked up and Ern hurried towards us in a very sprightly fashion, he could have been taken for an active 65 year old.
He told us that one suitcase contained his artwork and he was going to put on an exhibition for the “Kiddies”.
On arriving at Butlins we got him settled in and as soon as that was done he more or less made me his secretary and off we went to set up his exhibition. All the “Kiddies” were notified and during the next two days Ern was in his element.
He attended the conventions up until about 1979. He was solely missed when age caught up with him.
In 1974 Ern Shaw appeared on a TV panel show called “Quick on the Draw”. Denis Gifford who devised the programme, asked Ern to take part with Charlie Drake and Tony Hawes. It was hosted by Bob Monkhouse and Ern out talked him. “Some feat”
Denis Gifford who was the founder member of ACE (Association of Comic Enthusiasts founded in 1978) was so impressed with Ern Shaw’s work, he presented Ern Shaw with the Ally Sloper Award for his many years devotion to the strip cartoon medium.
The award was based on the first British comic strip comic hero, Ally Sloper, created over a century ago by Charles H. Ross and Marie Duval on 14th August 1867.
My memories of him are quite dim now but one thing that always stands out. The early morning knock on Chic’s chalet door and as people remarked the suggestion “Can Chic come out to play”, never actually said but certainly inferred “truly a boy who never grew up”. Thank God.
During the first Cartoonists’ Club of Great Britain convention at the Butlins someone had the idea of showing the clubs gratitude to the host by drawing cartoons on a large board, about eight feet by four feet in size and painted in white so that they could draw cartoons on it in memory of that convention. The ritual of presenting these boards to the managers of the camp at which they stayed persisted throughout the twenty seven years history of Butlins Cartoonists’ Club Conventions.”
Below are two boards from the 1974 and 1979 Butlins club conventions and enlargements of Ern Shaw's cartoons that appear on the boards.
The club still continues today and is celebrating its 50th Anniversary this year. The Club's primary objective remains to encourage social contacts between cartoonists whilst promoting the cartoon art form . It continues to organise many local, nationwide and international cartoon events, from exhibitions and competitions to charitable fund raising events and public exhibitions.
I would like to thank two members the club Mike Turner ( Chairman of the club 1997-2002) and Peter Jacob (brother of Chic Jacob) for their help with my research into the Cartoonists’ Club history and Ern Shaw’s involvement in the club.
If you would like to find out more about the Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain's History go to my blog through this link: 'They make us Laugh'
The Club was formed in 1960 as a purely social organization by Ian Scott (a political cartoonist in the old Daily Sketch ) with the help of Les Lilly (script-writer). Ian’s idea was that although there were numerous cartoonists around, they did not know one another, therefore the first successful society for professional cartoonists was born.
In 1961 the Christmas party for the club was held at the Presscala Club. Guest of honour was Billy Butlin. During the course of the evening he promised Ian Scott that he would host an annual conference for the club, starting the following May in 1962 at his brand new camp at Bognor Regis. He stuck to his word and offered the facilities for one week free of charge to club members and a discount for family members accompanying them. Sir Billy Butlin, carried on this tradition for the club to hold their yearly conventions at a variety of his camps for over a twenty seven period.
Peter Jacob who is a member of the Cartoonts' Club recalls his first meeting with Ern Shaw:
“Denis Gifford passed on Ern Shaw’s background to my brother Chic Jacob, a cartoonist, illustrator and radio and television comedy scriptwriter, who was chairman of the club at that time and instructed me and other members of the club to make this yearly treat accessible to him.
Ern Shaw was living in Cottingham near Hull at that time and it was arranged for me to collect him from Shrewsbury station, with a friend George Ratcliff, we waited for the train at the station which duly arrived. We expected a typical octogenarian to stagger from the train, instead we saw a large suitcase come off the train followed by another and this gentleman jumped onto the platform. The suitcases were picked up and Ern hurried towards us in a very sprightly fashion, he could have been taken for an active 65 year old.
He told us that one suitcase contained his artwork and he was going to put on an exhibition for the “Kiddies”.
On arriving at Butlins we got him settled in and as soon as that was done he more or less made me his secretary and off we went to set up his exhibition. All the “Kiddies” were notified and during the next two days Ern was in his element.
He attended the conventions up until about 1979. He was solely missed when age caught up with him.
In 1974 Ern Shaw appeared on a TV panel show called “Quick on the Draw”. Denis Gifford who devised the programme, asked Ern to take part with Charlie Drake and Tony Hawes. It was hosted by Bob Monkhouse and Ern out talked him. “Some feat”
Denis Gifford who was the founder member of ACE (Association of Comic Enthusiasts founded in 1978) was so impressed with Ern Shaw’s work, he presented Ern Shaw with the Ally Sloper Award for his many years devotion to the strip cartoon medium.
The award was based on the first British comic strip comic hero, Ally Sloper, created over a century ago by Charles H. Ross and Marie Duval on 14th August 1867.
My memories of him are quite dim now but one thing that always stands out. The early morning knock on Chic’s chalet door and as people remarked the suggestion “Can Chic come out to play”, never actually said but certainly inferred “truly a boy who never grew up”. Thank God.
During the first Cartoonists’ Club of Great Britain convention at the Butlins someone had the idea of showing the clubs gratitude to the host by drawing cartoons on a large board, about eight feet by four feet in size and painted in white so that they could draw cartoons on it in memory of that convention. The ritual of presenting these boards to the managers of the camp at which they stayed persisted throughout the twenty seven years history of Butlins Cartoonists’ Club Conventions.”
Below are two boards from the 1974 and 1979 Butlins club conventions and enlargements of Ern Shaw's cartoons that appear on the boards.
The club still continues today and is celebrating its 50th Anniversary this year. The Club's primary objective remains to encourage social contacts between cartoonists whilst promoting the cartoon art form . It continues to organise many local, nationwide and international cartoon events, from exhibitions and competitions to charitable fund raising events and public exhibitions.
I would like to thank two members the club Mike Turner ( Chairman of the club 1997-2002) and Peter Jacob (brother of Chic Jacob) for their help with my research into the Cartoonists’ Club history and Ern Shaw’s involvement in the club.
If you would like to find out more about the Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain's History go to my blog through this link: 'They make us Laugh'
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