Just reading about the death this morning of Tony Hart, resident artist on BBC's Vision On, the children's art-based series of the 60's and 70's. A generation or three of paintbrush and pastel-wielding kids mourn his passing.
Today's header up there is a link, (as discussed in the post-before-last), so click on it and bathe in the cool n' mellow vibe-fest that was the soundtrack to thousands of gifted and not-so-gifted art-kidettes waiting to see if their daubings would adorn the wall of the Vision On Gallery each week. Remember "We're sorry that we can't return any of your pictures, but there's a prize for every one we show" ? C'mon, what well-adjusted primary schoolboy in their right mind didn't have a thing for Pat Keysell?
For a generation of kids too young to see the 60's (or the 70's) swing, the show's near-psychedelic sections were created by the BBC's back-door Situationist, one Wilf Makepeace Lunn. Can you guess which one he is in the picture up there boys and girls? And they wonder why we grew up strange.
RIP Tone.