Jon the Pom's legendary birthday bash, 2019 edition

 

Jon Pom's 55th birthday celebration. This is the 6th year I've followed him and the gang around on a Chippendalian pubcrawl. drawing a book of portrait birthday cards.

Last year's bash is here I'll put links to all 6 here and/or on a separate page soon. They can be found among posts from July each year on the blog

This is the frontispiece, in the back yard at the Duck Inn, with Jon and Vasko providing commentary, and a glimpse of Rosie on the left drawing me - see below.

Graham, aka Crash, one of Jon's mates from his roadying days

 

On the bck of a napkin... Rosie's drawing of me

 

Vasko - the Mayor of Chippendale, or so he alleges

 

Rosemary - Chippendale artist Wart

There was some confusion as we upped sticks at the Duck Inn and moved on to the Lansdowne, and Wart left before I managed to draw any more than this

 

Gracie

Grace collaborated with me on the RocknRoll Garden of Earthly Delights at the Record Crate and the Australiana Billabong at Newtown Mission

 

Fragments of Lucas - other years I've drawn some really good likenesses of Lucas. This year, not so much

 

Emma at the Lansdowne

Jon the Birthday Day boy. Back at the Duck Inn he set his hair on fire blowing out the candles on his(lurid food-colour rainbow) cake. "Happy Birthday" - we'd just launched into the song and he was jumping the gun. Spectacular.

 

Dommie was working the Bar at the Lansdowne. He's into 80s metal, and id putting together a house band at the hotel, which he's fronting. Bowie Spiders from Mars glam would be mad right now

 

Dan 

By now we'd moved on down to Bar Broadway and I got a better portrait of Dan than I've managed before

 

Max, and his haircut( I had this haircut once upon a time, but it escaped, and now Max has it).

Max is on the staff at Bar Broadway

Stan at Bar Broadway

 

Jake, another barman at Bar Broadway, and friend of Jon's, he knows everyone down there.

This is a detail, the whole page is below. It was about 3am and I was getting tired. A bit earlier finish than some other years(last year I was mercifully refused entry to the Agincourt about 4)