Merv García, pen and ink and pencil on graph paper, doodle © 2007 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
Merv Griffin: OK, my little pajaritos, do we have any requests?
Someone in audience: Y volver, volver, volver…
Someone else in audience: …a mis brazos otra vez…
MG: Coños, babies, come on, I’m not Al Hurricane…let me play you una cancioncita about my lovely bunch of coco-nuts…
Someone in audience: Al Hurricane? I thought you were Tony Bennett, oyé!
Someone else in audience: ¿Qué cosa Tony Bennett? ¡Oralé, he’s Engulburk Humperdink!
-Related to posts What If The Southwest Guy Were Chicano? and What If Madge Were Chicana?
What If Merv Were Chicano?
September 14, 2007 by ybonesy
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Very Funny! …lovely bunch of coconuts… and …I thought you were Tony Bennett.
…maybe George Hamilton ?
LOL. He does have that same sort of orange-brown pigment!
Eek! Merv is wearing Tony Bennet’s bad rug of olden times. This is priceless! great drawing! G
Whoa! I like the George Hamilton reference. Liz and I had a good chuckle about your doodle after we got home late tonight.
The textures you’ve been adding look almost like scratchboard.
Ha! G’s comment is priceless!
QM — I didn’t know how to make white hair, so I picked up one of Dee’s posterboard paint markers that we got at my new favorite store, Michaels, and I used that. So now I’m doodling with pen, pencil, paint markets, and gouache (if it’s graduated from my grid doodle-notebook to my non-grid sketch notebook).
If Merv were Chicano, I think he could be Tony Bennett’s cousin. Wait…is Tony Bennett Italian?
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Woah… what? He’s not chicano?
yb, I thought you might be using paint markers. The only other thing I could think of was that it was the white under scratchboard.
BTW, you mean your non-grid sketch notebook is more able to take all the different mediums? And the grid paper’s too thin? And how do you use the gouache? Does it really have gum in it? I haven’t used that before.
Oh, my other idea for Merv’s hair was that you used white shoe polish. I wonder what it would be like to use that?
Ybonesy - I rather like your drawings on the gridded paper, and this one is great. QM mentions white shoe polish. Try that and also try correcting fluid which is white, comes in paintable form, with technical pen nibs and also as tape and you could get some neat effects. i like the freshness of your drawing marks, and especially how you combine pencil with the pens - and also the contemporary feel of your drawings. G
Thanks, G. All good tips. I love the idea of white shoe polish, especially because I bet you anything Merv has used a lot of it in his life. Remember the late 1960s, when the young people were wearing bell bottoms, and their lawyer dads wore red polyester pants, red and white striped suits, and white leather shoes?
The white paint marker had a white shoe polish sort of effect. It was thinner than liquid paper, but it even came out of the nib in the same way white shoe polish used to, by pressing to open up the rubber stopper inside.
QM: yes, my sketchbook paper is thicker and can handle water-based paint. I mix the gouache pigments with white to get the colors I want, and then I build up layers, so it looks closer to acrylic than watercolor (although more forgiving than acrylic). I haven’t done one of those for a while.
pmousse — you got me thinking. Maybe Merv has such a funny name — I mean, “Merv” — because he changed it from Merificio or something.
ybonesy, I’ve got photos of my step-dad in polyester from the 60’s! As I’m going through photos for writing my memoir, I’m running into all kinds of bells bottoms, long hair, perms, and, well, you name it. I’m looking at photographs that go all the way back to the late 1800’s.
Oh, and I wanted to say that in honor of polyester, Liz and I are listening to a Rhapsody channel this morning called: Polyester Palace! Funny, we know all the words.
It’s fabulous songs from the time period of late 60’s, early 70’s:
The 4 Tops, All in the Game, Temptations, Goldie Hawn (yes, she had a single back then), Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra, Loggins & Messina, Wings, Elton John - wait did Elton ever wear polyester?
Perms, like Mr. Brady’s from the Brady Bunch. Ugh.
I just have to say, in looking again at my Chicano Merv, his arms are way to short for his body.