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About RoadRat's Scribble
Art
In the beginning, (around 1971), I drew a picture of a girl from behind in study hall as a freshman in high school. It wasn't too good, but not real bad, either. Art has always been in the family as my Grandfather was a painter, and father created landscapes from plaster and also drew. I kept the drawing in my binder and would change it some when there was nothing to do in study hall. I started drawing others from the front in my favorite styles of the early 70's, being miniskirts, knee high anything, (boots or socks), and long hair, usually about waist length. I continued to draw from the recliner in my parents basement, drawing longer hair and shorter skirts, until I met my first girlfriend, about 1972. I still dabbled in art after that, but never took any formal art training. Art continued as a spare time hobby, following computers, biking, cars, (after turning 16), and girlfriends. I started drawing shorter hair in the late 70's, as I started liking short hair, thanks to a girlfriend in the late 70's, who cut her long hair and kept it short afterward. I went back to drawing long again in the 80's and still like to draw now. I still mainly draw looks popular in the early 70's. Thanks to PC's and photo editing software, I took some of the ones I kept and added color.
Stories
Most of this scribble was kept in a folder, shown to a friend, or thrown out. With her, we used to make up stories and act them out. She had long blonde hair and would like to play the beauty with the long flowing hair, and would make up odd names.. I would be whatever she wanted. Sometimes, others would join in. The stories were mostly her idea, with me getting an occasional shot. Her ambition was to be a journalist or a writer, my ambition at the time was to only impress her and her friends, (my first girlfriend was a result of such impressions.). Of course, we grew out of that but I traded stories with her for a while after. Creating stories and artwork is a stress reliever for me, so I will continue to keep these on my list of hobbies.
Long Hair
Long hair is an art. It is a beauty that takes years of care and patience to create. Long hair kept that way as a lady reaches her 30's and 40's is even a greater sight. When I got married in 1982, my bride had long black hair past her waist, and has kept it long all these years. Being a pack rat, I kept a lot of old magazines and such and now have access to a lot of vintage long hair beauty.
The Web
In summer of 1999, I needed a place to show how my project car, a 1970 Corvette, was coming at the Corvette chat rooms. Instead of emailing pictures to everyone that asked, it was easier to start a site and put them there and give out the address. Thus RoadRat's Rest Stop was born. Some others joined in and wanted their cars put there also. I also put up a huge Christmas display every year and put the pictures on the Rest Stop for my out of town friends. Often, I wondered what would happen when anyone who went through my stuff would think of the old art and stories still in the desk, after I was gone. Instead of just leaving them there, I scanned a few and put them on the Rest Stop to find out. Even if 99% of the surfing public dismisses this as amateur art and writing, (which it is), I will still put some new stuff out for the 1% that have wrote back and liked it. Over the year period the Rest Stop has existed, it has gotten too big and needs to be split. Most of the visitors to the Rest Stop are interested in the 60's 70's fashion section and not so much in the art and long hair sections. Therefore, I decided to split the art and longhair sections and give then their own spot. I introduced this new site to the Long Hair Webring to see if there is any interest. The interest in this new site now exceeds the interest in the Rest Stop site.
Other webmasters(mistresses)
RoadRat's Scribble is a member of the Long Hair Webring, Long Locks Webring, and Pencil Artist Webring. I am intersted in banner or link trading with any other site creators who share the same interest in long hair or Art as I. Mail your banner or url to roadrat57@hotmail.com . Right click and save either banner below for your link page or use longhair.50megs.com I will add your link or banner to my link page accessed from the main contents page.
