Cartoon Surprise

Sometimes you do a project and see something in it you didn't expect to see. Something that you did not even have in mind, consciously at least.
That is the case with this little cartoon I drew of myself for a header on another blog.
While it 'kind' of looks like me, it very much resembles my mother.     It is "her".
July is her birthday month and perhaps that is why she is on my mind.

During the day I sometimes listen to the Easy Listening channel on  cable TV and it has many of the songs she loved  .. the old standards...perhaps that is also a reason why I kept tweaking this cartoon until it came to be more her than me.  Their song  play list is very nice and unobtrusive when you are working.

 My mother was an elegant lady and I do mean lady.  So much a lady that it made one particular remark she used  to say very funny. "Oh, the things you see when you haven't got a gun", she would say on seeing something outrageous.
 It was so out of character , so unexpected from her, that you broke down in laughter.

I was very proud of her at any event, school or otherwise as she was always the nicest dressed mother and picture perfect.
She always wore a touch of perfume, To a Wild Rose which was an old Avon classic,Revlon's  Charlie, or Guerlain's  Shalimar.    Just a hint but they are "her" to me.
So here is a cartoon of moi, disguised as my Mother .