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WV1707
2011
"Are you still in control of the boat that you row
Or do you still cling to me when its sinking
I never condemned you, I only consoled you
When candlelight made me a King..."
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin, Blue Moves, 1976)
Ink on $teinbach paper
WV1636
2010
Hey Leon! Try not to fall asleep...
("The Union", Elton John & Leon Russell, 2010)
Coloured pencil and ink on $teinbach paper
Over a year ago when we were confined to avoid spreading a potentially deadly virus, I knew much of my photographic adventures would need to be curtailed. In similar time, something by Stephan Marjoram inspired me to fill a bit of time doing something creative. So I took up ink drawing. Just to see what I could do. And with zero photography projects in the queue, I wanted to fill this space with something. So here goes. I start out by aping M.Marjoram and, as you will later see, I take inspiration from many other sources.
My Inktober cat drawing today was just a quick one as I spent the rest of my drawing time working on this ink and watercolour ditty.
Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Platinum Carbon fountain pen and Faber Castell watercolour pencils in a Stillman & Birn, Epsilon sketchbook.
...this is a beautiful ink. Impossible to capture the depth of the peacock tones and shimmering colours (at least for me)
...let's just say it's been a busy month (puppy) and I squeaked this one in the back door at the last minute. ;) I think I got hung up on the idea of the theme of rainy days that inspired this selection of ink, and just couldn't mentally get past it until today... quite frankly it really hasn't done much in the way of rain here to inspire a desire for it to go away.
Anyway, the colours are as follows:
Caran d'Ache ~ Magnetic Blue
Diamine ~ Twilight (the only one that is truly dip pen friendly like most inks from this English company)
J. Herbin ~ Gris Nuage
Sheaffer ~ Blue-Black (a surprisingly beautiful ink)
Waterman ~ Intense Black ( A black with amazing, hidden depths)
Paper, like usual is Stillman & Birn, Zeta.
One of 12 ink drawings that are part of my show Sketchbook: Chapter Two at Blue Gallery in Kansas City.
acrylic ink on paper
8x10 inches, 2011
*SOLD*
#277 of 365 Daily Drawings
Inspiration: My sample of the new Stillman & Birn Zeta series paper arrived
Result: Testing ~ no warping, no bleeding, forgives erasing and scrubbing
Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Platinum Carbon Fountain Pen, Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour & Graphite Aquarelle 8B pencils in a Stillman & Birn Zeta series sketchbook
Location: Home
Note: Stillman & Birn creates my go-to sketch books of choice, in particular the Epsilon series is a dream to work on with pen and nib. They had recently launched a 180lb version of this smooth, ink loving paper called Zeta ~ which is incredibly forgiving to wet mediums. I had lamented that it was not yet available in Canada and today I was thrilled to receive a Zeta in the post to experiment on. Thank-you Stillman & Birn for not only the sample but for bringing yet another awesome paper choice to market for creative people!
...this is going to be so much fun!
Training myself to draw has been an interesting exercise. I studied the workds of Nicolas de Crecy, the Rat Rod artists, Stephan Marjoram, R.Crumb, S.Clay Wilson and many others. While I certainly will never develop the kind of talent they had, this has been a good way to "kill time" during the various periods of lockdown here in France during the Covid Pandemic.
Every month I challenge myself to create a drawing using only the shades in Goulet Pen Company's Inkdrop Sampler.
February 2016
Theme: Treat. Yo. Self.
Inks: Montegrappa ~ Bordeaux, Montevere ~ Burgundy, Pelikan Edelstein ~ Sapphire, Pilot Iroshizuku ~ Ajisai and Private Reserve ~ Chocolat
Drawing in black and white ink on grey paper
From the series "Cabinet of Curiosities", based on objects in the collection of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paléontologie et Anatomie Comparée in Paris and Museum Bleulandinum in Utrecht, respectively.
Available through Stanek Gallery.
Ink on A4 paper. Sketched with pencil on location, inked at home. It's nice to be able to sketch outdoors again after the long cold winter! At least on a sunny day.
#325 of 365 Daily Drawings
Inspiration: Scotland vs England International friendly match
Result: Day 20
Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Sakura Micron 005 & Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils in a Stillman & Birn Zeta series sketchbook
Location: B&B in Pitlochry, Scotland
Note:...Scotland lost :(