Google image search is the greatest thing for an artist….however beware what you search for….it can be pretty funny and also (even with a moderate/safe search) alarming what you can pull up…for example I googled “kid sitting on Santa’s lap” when I was working on a cartoon for Brain,Child and the 1980’s movie Silent Night Deadly Night came up. Anyone remember the tag line? “He knows when you’ve been naughty or nice.” It’s a horror flick about a serial killing Santa. Apparently, it caused all kinds of outrage from parents at the time. I would be fuming if it were remade today and my kids saw the commercials. All of my bribing down the tubes when they find out just how terrible and naughty Santa really is himself!
Today, I found that if you search for “mother hugging child” you get just as many happy images as sad. There are so many pictures of mothers hugging kids that have passed away or hugging their kids to keep them safe, hugging them to their bodies as they run from harm. I think I’ll go upstairs and hug my little ones now.
Yep, I’m also procrastinating (Jenny, I promise the drawings are coming soon)…there’s nothing like a google image search to shake a mother silly.
