{"id":3067,"date":"2015-08-17T05:24:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T05:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=3067"},"modified":"2015-08-17T05:24:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T05:24:15","slug":"original-artwork-from-alan-cracknell-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2015\/08\/17\/original-artwork-from-alan-cracknell-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Original Artwork from Alan Cracknell etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">First blog\u00a0since upgrading to\u00a0Windows 10 &#8211; so far so good!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I mentioned in the last blog I was trying to contact an artist, namely Alan Cracknell, but no success so far but then again I may not have the right one. The artwork this time features his interpretation of that famous character form Enid Blyton &#8220;Mr Twiddle&#8221; in <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/Original\/Cracknell.htm\">&#8220;Hello Mr. Twiddle<\/a><\/span>&#8221; There were three titles in this series but only two were published by PAN under the Piccolo imprint who didn&#8217;t include &#8220;Don&#8217;t Be Silly Mr. Twiddle&#8221; I&#8217;ve also included a couple of his other Blyton covers. I&#8217;ll put on another piece of his artwork soon.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Twiddle1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3068\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Twiddle1-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"Twiddle1\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Twiddle1-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Twiddle1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a>Alan was born in Harrow in 1937\u00a0and attended art school before working as an illustrator in advertising in London eventually became freelance.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8220;His beautifully detailed artwork influenced by Russian Icons and Medieval miniatures incorporates Nursery Rhyme Characters, Flora and Fauna, Field names and Artifacts in a surreal manner into his work. Medieval meets Alice in Wonderland&#8221;<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> (Bell Fine Arts)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I meant to include this cutting last month when it actually appeared but it went missing and turned up a bit ripped!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Morph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3069 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Morph.jpg\" alt=\"Morph\" width=\"400\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Morph.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Morph-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pan published three <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/Blog\/Morph\/Morph.htm\">Morph<\/a><\/span> titles under the Piccolo imprint where Tony Hart is shown on the covers but it is Peter Lord who is credited inside.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3070\" style=\"width: 162px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Segway.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3070\" class=\"wp-image-3070 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Segway-152x300.jpg\" alt=\"Segway\" width=\"152\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Segway-152x300.jpg 152w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Segway.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mastering the beast before being let loose in the woods<\/span>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;.. and finally, although this is probably &#8216;old hat&#8217; to all of you and for once nothing to do with books\u00a0I got around to having a &#8216;Segway Experience&#8217; last week. I was quite pleased, for once, to be told off for going too fast around the corners but as I didn&#8217;t crash into anything or fall off I thought I&#8217;d mastered it pretty well!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First blog\u00a0since upgrading to\u00a0Windows 10 &#8211; so far so good! I mentioned in the last blog I was trying to contact an artist, namely Alan Cracknell, but no success so far but then again I may not have the right one. 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