Regular readers of the Black Sheep will know that we’re fans of wall calendars.
Looks more orange than yellow
Whether it’s Mrs Deputy Livestock’s legendary but elusive YFC charity effort, Man Utd’s classic ’99 season, or Garfield – The Early Years, we love ‘em all.
JCB, masters of PR, joined our calendar good books last year with their 2006 “Arty Diggers” effort.
We just received a first sneak peek of this year's creation – unsurprisingly it features naked women, silhouetted and covered in dripping yellow paint (subtle, eh? But I’m not complaining).
According to the press release, the production process involved the selected girls posing individually while a make-up artist slowly poured yellow liquid latex over the model (sounds like a tough job).
Occasionally sections of the body were poured and photographed separately, other times the results were left to gravity.
The perils of not wearing coveralls
As per last year, George Bamford – youngest son of JCB owner Sir Anthony - has the enviable honour of photographing the girls.
Bamford explained that his interest in photography was no flight of fancy.
“Just before my grandfather passed away he told me he had wanted to be a photographer but that he couldn’t afford it. He inspired me to pursue a career as a photographer," explained Bamford.
“In particular, photographing naked women is a family passion,” Bamford didn’t go on to say, before not going down to B&Q to buy a trolley’s worth of Barley Sunrise from Dulux.