Goblin Dave

This is an old painting in traditional acrylics (ohmygod) instead of the digital .riff-chewing antics of Painter. Grrr. When I painted this, Dave was still around. He was my Mum's boyfriend and he indulged in telling sea shanties about his tales in the Merchant Navy, filled our house with his own inventions and contraptions and was affectionately known as Goblin. When he first came into the house, us siblings were guarded of this stranger who entered our domain. He became part of the fixtures and soon we had to adapt to him. Funnily enough, he was a complete character and was easy to represent in the painting above.

He's dead now. Probably dancing with ghost sailors.