Hart-broken

I wonder how many puns there will be today? As I was in the car on the way up from Edinburgh Airport to home, I heard on the radio that Tony Hart had passed away. I must be getting old, as the TV stars of my youth have begin to pop their clogs.

I never got any of my pictures on Take Hart, but I do remember it. And the mess I ended up making with all kinds of art supplies as a result. And cornflake packets. And bits of glitter. And glue. One that springs to mind was “painting” photographs using kitchen roll and water. You spread the roll out over your soon-to-be work of art, then “painted” using just water, which made the paper transparent and the image show through.

A daft memory from when I was maybe eight years old. But the fact is, I remember it.

Now, I’ve never gone on to do anything arty but I enjoyed myself when I was little and a part of that was from messing round and kidding myself that I could draw and paint. A huge amount of this came from Take Hart, which was his program when I was a nipper.

Great guy, great program. It’s always a shame to loose a great entertainer, and even moreso when they’re someone who inspires children so well.

I love the picture at the top. I nabbed it from b3ta.com and I don’t know who PhotoShopped it, but it’s very apt. No Take Hart = No Morph… which would likely have meant no Wallace & Gromit either!

Oh, and a small trivia fact in the radio story yesterday: Tony Hart designed the original Blue Peter logo.