Cockles, Enin, T.H, Double Carpet, Tips and Neves. Second Part!

Second part of this project was to find out what the list actually meant and illustrate it literally. These words are to do with tictac, betting slang for horse racing that is. You know those old men in at the races in white gloves who make lots of strange hand signals? Well that tic tac. Its a secret language that is dying out, that the bookies use to signal the odds to each other. Did you guess the words right?
I printed a man doing tictac and then copied and reduced it into a flip book. Voila! A tic tac man.

Here are a few of the printed originals.

And copied into the flipbook:

Cockles, Enin, T.H, Double Carpet, Tips and Neves.

What do these words mean to you? For this project we had a list of words. We weren't told what the words meant and the first part of the project was to illustrate what we could imagine the words to be. I know Burlington Bertie is a music hall song and Cockles are a seaside food, so I decided to make the words acts in a old timey music hall.
The poster was linocut and the printed on white paper and also a on a collaged background I put together.