CARICATURES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19957, 26 November 1926, Page 7

CARICATURES.

t> —. - ( DAVID LOW’S SITTERS. < < Lord Oxford is a most patient sitter. ( When I told him so he said, “That is the < greatest tribute I have ever had” (writes ’ David Low, formerly of Australia, in the 1 Strand Magazine). I like drawing Mr i Churchill because his face is full of humorous “atmosphere.” Mr Ramsay j MacDonald would be good to draw if he « would stop cutting his moustache. Mr i

i i Lloyd George liked several of my repre- , { sentations of himself, and was anuisea at | i one of my cartoons of Clemenceau, Wilson. < Vcnizelos, and Orlando, as an unemployed i deputation outside Downing street, that i I gave him the original. A correspondent ; once asked Mr Lloyd George why the ( Coalition donkey in one of my cartoons of him had two heads. The statesman’s witty answ r er was that two heads are > bettor than one. There is more than 1 meets the eye in drawing a caricature, i It might be thought that a good photo- j graph, or a series of photographs, would enable me to collect the necessary data for my pencil. This, however, is by no

means the case. I fro to meetings, dinners, clubs, receptions, lectures, and so on, where the man I intend to earicatdre may be seen, and sketch him as he really lives, moves, and has his being. Ido not believe it possible to get the real personality of a man at one arranged sitting. There are dominant traits in every one of us which are revealed only in relaxed moments. Both Shaw and Wells, for instance, are very kindly men at heart, but they cannot be said to make an obvious display of friendship and cordiality at a first meeting.