Thread by @Jimllpaintit

The story of the Blessed versus Goldie picture (a thread)

February 2013 - "Please paint Brian Blessed riding a Henry hoover alongside D'n'B DJ Goldie on a Dyson. They are racing on the Mario kart level rainbow road and are both drunk on white ace cider. Thanks, Tommy Pratt"

March 2013 - Brian Blessed reposts the image and declares he could beat Goldie

April 2013 - Goldie’s son Danny contacts me to say he’s sick of people showing him the picture and could I please paint him looking disappointingly at it while various celebrities point and laugh

March 2014 - It becomes an all over print T-shirt of just 250 copies

March 2016 - Having learned how to draw slightly I give it another crack

April 2017 - Brian Blessed riding a hoover becomes a pin badge and a sort of unofficial logo for Jim’ll Paint It

September 2017 - Katie, Dave and Andy win a photo competition by recreating the picture in real life using real vacuum cleaners.

Beth Abbit and her friend Meg also recreate the picture but don’t win anything because for starters they didn’t even get the drink right.

March 2021 - I try and find the person wearing the all over print T-shirt version of this picture on the front cover of the 2017 University of Exeter Undergraduate Prospectus

April 2021 - Brian Blessed wears a T-shirt featuring Ben, the person from the 2017 University of Exeter Undergraduate Prospectus riding a hoover

April 2022 - One of the original canvas prints gets posted in the Random Crap Found In Charity Shops Facebook group by Emma Louise

The shop turns out to be Hessle Woodcrafts. Jamie Mulchinock goes and buys the print…

…and gets it signed by Brian Blessed

August 2022 - I paint it a third time, this time in the style of Chris (Simpsons Artist)

Tommy Pratt - the man responsible for the original request