Big Boss Baboon

The Big Baboon
Author: Hilaire Belloc

The Big Baboon is found upon
The plains of Cariboo:
He goes about with nothing on
(A shocking thing to do).

But if he dressed up respectably
And let his whiskers grow,
How like this Big Baboon would be
To Mister So-and-so!

Painter 9, finished in 3 hours.


It was when i finished this illustration of the big baboon, i decided
to do a wild card search for poems about baboon. And lo and behold,
this sticks out like it was written for the pics I did. Surprised and
bewildered, I immediately copied this poem and inserted for my
illustration. For those who thought I wrote this, sorry, it was not
me, but an unknown writer (to me at least) on the internet. But I
was extremely elated afterwhich.

Thanks for all your comments. Keep them coming will ya.



[repost on 14 Mar 05]:
Changed the stark red jacket to a purplish one, to tone down the colour a little.
Just to make sure the colours balance. Well, it is not that perfect yet, but at
least I am not distracted by the red ever again!! (pls suggest). I was also
quite tempted to paint the jacket black too! (will try will try* )