[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-wee-glasgow-keelies":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/glasgow6-7b796467bb.jpg\" width=\"200\">\\r\nMy auntie took Stuart and me to the newly renovated \u003Ca href=\"http://www.glasgowmuseums.com/venue/index.cfm?venueid=4\">Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum\u003C/a> and I made a couple drawings based on some of the pictures. I love the face on this kid, from a series of photos taken by \u003Cb>Joseph McKenzie\u003C/b> of kids in Glasgow's \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorbals\">Gorbals\u003C/a>. But darn, he was hard to draw! He kept looking like an old man, which is part of his charm, really, but he shouldn't \u003Ci>actually\u003C/i> look like an old man. I finally ended up thinking, what would \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garynorthfield.co.uk\">Gary\u003C/a> do, and drew him that way, which seemed to work the best.\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/gorbals-6017f039b6.jpg\">\\r\nThis one isn't spot on either, but I loved the gormless expression and composition of this painting by painter and optical repairman \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Quinton_Pringle\">John Quinton Pringle\u003C/a>, one of the \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Boys\">Glasgow Boys\u003C/a>. The gallery was displaying a large collection of work by the Glasgow Boys, which will be on exhibition at the Royal Academy next year (when you'll have to pay a whopping fee to get in. See 'em for free in Glasgow!). \\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/pringle_boy-9efb9f5ed8.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/glasgow10-0d3e5994e2.jpg\" width=\"250\">\\r\n\u003C!--more Lots of Glasgow photos under the cut-->\\r\nHere's an eyeglasses sign, painted, I think by Pringle again. Sort of spooky looking and very cool.\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/glasgow4-95db86e769.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThe museum's laid out as sort of cross between London's Natural History Museum, the V&A and the Horniman, but with entirely different stuff, lots of amazing Scottish paintings. Here's Sir Roger the Elephant, who was so big he couldn't be removed when they were doing renovations, so they just boxed him up on the spot.\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/glasgow1-61a8987153.jpg\"> \\r\n\\r\nSome lovely icky bugs:\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/glasgow5-35b1f241bb.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's the spire of Glasgow University, where my dad studied:\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/glasgow7-4f7c413934.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnother place we visited was the \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland_Street_School\">Scotland Street School\u003C/a>, designed entirely by one of Scotland's best-loved architects, \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rennie_Mackintosh\">Charles Rennie Mackintosh\u003C/a>. (You can see a drawing of it here on the wall of its local subway stop, Shields Road. We had fun riding the Glasgow subway, which originally worked by having its trains clamp onto a moving circular cable, thus its nickname \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Subway\">the Clockwork Orange\u003C/a>. (Here's my auntie and Stuart stopped at Ibrox station, which is next to the big Rangers football club where my cousin once took my sister to a match. She came back knowing all these songs that made my aunt and uncle blush.) \\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/glasgow2-9a3cd43355.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/glasgow3-6689fa1b84.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/glasgow11-cb97e59cdc.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/glasgow12-686eb322ac.jpg\"> \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/glasgow15-9ce836b646.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThey even had a class full of school children in Victorian outfits being taught by a cranky old teacher, who apparently is the only teacher in Scotland who will threaten to cane them, even if he can't legally carry out his threat. One of the hallway invigilators said the kids really love this.\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/glasgow13-8ef6650af2.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nLovely tilework. Apparently Mackintosh wanted to use the dark green tiles everywhere, but had to compromise and bring in cheaper white tiles, reserving the green and blue tiles for borders and detail work. \\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/glasgow16-bcfd5a4e91.jpg\">\\r\nLots of interesting details:\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/glasgow17-671dc35727.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/glasgow18-85a1820714.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/glasgow19-84979d3bec.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd a last photo of Glasgow's rainy shopping street.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/glasgow20-c6d787dc1b.jpg\">","2009-11-30T11:15:00.000Z","wee-glasgow-keelies",[],"wee glasgow keelies",1776628733622]