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WV1535/2010
Gouache and ink on $teinbach paper
Wop bop a lu bop! Russian roulette no fun!
"A human heart goes out tonight
Yes, a red hot love on a red stop light
I see a scene, so cold it echoes in blue
Oh, those twisting tongues, they are after you
Wop bop a lu bop, Son, you gotta move up
Flip flop fly
Lawdy Miss Clawdy
Oh, what a story dreams to buy
Don't need a knife to violate my life
It's all so insane
When the other man has none
You don't need a gun
Yes a Russian roulette, no fun
I don't need a gun
I just need someone
I don't need a gun
Blood red lights a domination street
Yeah, I just need your love, and I feel that heat
Yeah, you can drive me through
That red stop light
With a whiplash smile, whoa!
Wop bop a lu bop, yeah, you gotta move up
Flip flop fly
Lawdy Miss Clawdy
Ooh, what a story dreams to buy
Don't need a knife to violate my life
It's all so insane
I say when the other man has none
You don't need a gun
A Russian roulette, no fun
I don't need a gun, yeah I just need someone
I won't need a gun
Oh yeah
You will always be crying, yeah
Oh, you will always be dying
Oh, you will always be dying
Elvis, a fight, the dying light
Johnnie Ray, he's always crying
Gene Vincent, he cried, "Who slapped John, John, John"
Yes and me, I'm movin', movin', movin', movin' on
Yeah, to be someone
I don't need a gun
I don't need a gun
I don't need a gun
Ow!
You will always be crying...."
YOU DON'T NEED A GUN - Billy Idol, 1986.
Iesus saluator filius perducat nos superius vbi regnat in gloria
Raynutius
In Nomine Sancte et Indiuidue trinitatie [sic?] patris et
filij et spiritussancti Amen Nouerint vniuersi
[The first line comes from the hymn "Ave fuit prima salus". "Raynutius" may be a name (> "Rinucci"?) or refer to a chapter of canon law known by the name of one of the litigants in the case that gave rise to it. The sketch of three horses appearing above the trinitarian formula of the signum crucis might possibly refer to the passage in St. Augustine's work De Trinitate (book 7, chapter 3) where he uses three horses as an example in discussing the meaning of the word "person" as it refers to the Christian God. Or they could just be a sketch of three horses.]
Penn Libraries call number: GC5 T2984 540a
#241 of 365 Daily Drawings
Inspiration: Blue Boy by Edwin A. Peeples (1965)
Result: Blueboy
Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Platinum Carbon Fountain Pen, Sakura Micron 005, Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon series sketchbook ( 21.6 cm 27.9 cm / 8 1/2" x 11")
Location: Home
Note: One of my favorite books as kid, is the long out of print novel, Blue Boy. It's about a child named Collin and his beloved kitten, Blue Boy. One day the feline vanishes while exploring the old house the family had recently moved into. The adults think the young cat is lost forever, but in fact he had become stuck inside the walls of the house after slipping through a small hole. The story follows his adventures with the creatures who help him survive until he is rescued.
Leaf a5r of an incunable edition of Innamoramento di Carlo Magno e dei suoi paladini (Venice: Georgius Walch, 20 July 1481; ISTC ic00204000) with early ms. sketch of three male figures (two hatted and one with hat in hand), of whom two are clasping hands, in tail margin.
Penn Libraries call number: Inc C-204 Folio
Penn Libraries catalog record
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Inktest Tree: Noodler's Habanero & Cayenne respectively from The Goulet Pen Company's July 2015 Inkdrop on Stillman & Birn, Zeta paper.
Thought I'd put both on one sheet of paper because they are literally in the same family and it's easier to see a comparison of the two side by each
WV1760/2012
Ink on Steinbach paper
"Life, it seems, will fade away
Drifting further every day
Getting lost within myself
Nothing matters, no one else
I have lost the will to live
Simply nothing more to give
There is nothing more for me
Need the end to set me free...."
FADE TO BLACK (excerpt) - Metallica, 1984.
© Mulga 2013, Anton the Aztec Goat, Ink on Paper, 21 x 30 cm
An Ode to Anton the Aztec Goat
A goat called Anton rowed his boat
Every day around the castle in the moat
And in that boat he wore a coat
And its patterns were great, he was known to gloat
“In the Incas I obtained my patterned coat”
In his daily journal is what he wrote
The coat was payment made in full
For head-butting one rampaging bull
He butted the bull and it ran away
And he saved all the village folk on that day
But that was a long time in the past
And now he can’t even run that fast
His time is now spent as a goat in a boat
Paddling in a moat while wearing a coat
It might seem silly but it floats his boat
That Anton the Goat who’s known to gloat
The End
#258 of 365 Daily Drawings
Inspiration: My parents West Highland Terriers like to take saunas
Result: Hot Dogs
Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Sakura Micron 005 in a Moleskine Plain notebook
Location: Kitchen table at the farm
Note: My heritage is Finnish and my parents have a wood heated sauna. My father insisted I take the 'pups' in when I went to stew in the 80C heat...and sure enough the girls couldn't get to the top bench fast enough and play with water from the bucket....*face palm*
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2010
Elton John/Leon Russell Songs Illustrated
THE UNION
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Mandalay Again
Music & lyrics by Elton John, Leon Russell & Bernie Taupin 2010
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Rules and regulations
And real estate are things I've left behind
Flights are always leaving
Silver wings unfolding on a dime
But I won't forget to tell you
If I could reconnect the line
I never really knew you
But come back I'd like to find the time
Drugs and consequences
And ferris wheels just took us up and down
Fights were always brewing
Two perfect understudies for a clown
If I could piece it all together
Or maybe find you through a friend
Last I heard it was St. Louis
But I wish that it was Mandalay again
Come back I'd like to find the time
Plant a seed and raise a little Cain
Come back we'll throw a rope around the moon
And pretend that we're in Mandalay again
Fuel and information
Are Siamese twins who poison everything
Lies that left us drowning
Rumor that burned like gasoline
I could have read you like a book
But instead I acted dumb and blind
I was younger then and foolish
Come back I'd like to find the time
If it wasn't in the afterglow of wine
Or the chatter of some European girl
I'd have understood that after all these years
There were those who chose to separate our worlds
Separate our worlds
Leaf a2r of an incunable edition of Suetonius's De vita Caesarum (Venice: Printer of the 1480 Valla (H 15809) [i.e. Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis?], 1480; ISTC is00820000) with initials and headline supplied by a reader in brown ink.
Established heading: Printer of the 1480 Valla
Established heading: Rosso, Giovanni, active 1480-1519
Penn Libraries call number: Inc S-820 Folio
Penn Libraries catalog record
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
Elton John Songs Illustrated
MADE IN ENGLAND
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Belfast
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1995
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Deep inside my soul fights a war
I can't explain, I can't cross over any more
All I see are dirty faces
Rain and wire, and common sense in pieces
But I try to see through Irish eyes
Belfast
Look outside, summer's lost and gone
It's a long walk on a street of right and wrong
In every inch of sadness
Rocks and tanks go hand in hand with madness
But I never saw a braver place
Belfast
And it's sad when they sing, and hollow ears listen
Of smoking black roses, on the streets of Belfast
And so say your lovers from under the flowers
Every foot of this world needs an inch of Belfast
Who's to say on whom heaven smiles
Our different ways we try hard to recognise
No more enchanted evenings
The pubs are closed and all the ghosts are leaving
But you'll never let them shut you down
Belfast
The enemy is not at home
A jealous green streaks down this faulty diamond
No bloody boots or crucifix
Can ever hope to split this emerald island
But I never saw a braver place
Belfast
WV1650/2010
Coloured pencil and ink on $teinbach paper
".....
Hey Ahab can you tell me where
I can catch a ride out of here
Hey Ahab hoist that sail
You've gotta stand up straight
When you ride that whale
In a crumbling city we were trapped for days
With a broken sun above the clouds
Caught like Jonah forty fathoms down
And a sign on the wall says, "Hope Allowed"
All the cryptic symbols carved on bone
A far cry from a tattooed rose
And when the boys in the rigging catch the wind
We'll all weigh anchor and it's westward ho...."
HEY AHAB - Music & lyrics by Elton John, Leon Russell & Bernie Taupin, 2010.
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012
Bob Marley Songs Illustrated
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NO WOMAN NO CRY
by Bob Marley 1974
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No, woman, no cry
No, woman, no cry
No, woman, no cry
No, woman, no cry
Said said
Said I remember when we used to sit
In the government yard in Trenchtown
Oba, ob-serving the hypocrites
As they would
mingle with the good people we meet
Good friends we have had,
Oh, good friends we've lost
along the way
In this great future you can't forget your past
So dry your tears, I say
No, woman, no cry
No, woman, no cry
Ee little darling, don't shed no tears
No, woman, no cry
Said, said,
Said I remember when we used to sit
In the government yard in Trenchtown
And then Georgie would make the fire light
As it was log wood burnin' through the night
Then we would cook corn meal porridge
Of which I'll share with you
My feet is my only carriage
So I've got to push on through
But while I'm gone, I mean...
Everything's gonna be alright
Ev'rything's gonna be alright
Ev'rything's gonna be alright
Ev'rything's gonna be alright
Ev'rything's gonna be alright
Ev'rything's gonna be alright
Ev'rything's gonna be alright
Ev'rything's gonna be alright
So woman, no cry
No, no, woman,
No, woman, no cry
Oh, my little sister, don't shed no tears
No, woman, no cry
I remember when we used to sit
In a government yard in Trenchtown
And then Georgie would make the fire light
As it was log wood burnin' through the night
Then we would cook corn meal porridge
Of which I'll share with you
My feet is my only carriage
So I've got to push on through
But while I'm gone...
No, woman, no cry
No, woman, no cry
Woman, little darling, say, don't shed no tears
No, woman, no cry
Yeah
Little darling don’t shed no tears
No, woman, no cry
Little sister, don’t shed no tears,
No, woman, no cry,
#242 of 365 Daily Drawings
Inspiration: My 2 cats sleeping all over the house on this grey, rainy day
Result: Rainbow Napping
Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Platinum Carbon Fountain Pen, Sakura Micron 005, Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon series sketchbook ( 21.6 cm 27.9 cm / 8 1/2" x 11")
Location: Home
Note: ...cats sleep like it's their job. It's a skill that never fails to impress me. The rainbow colours because I wanted something cheery to look at on an overcast day.
Daily Drawing #364 of 365
Inspiration: 2 days left
Result: Two
Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Platinum Carbon fountain pen in a Stillman & Birn, Epsilon sketchbook
Location: home
Notes: Wow....almost there!
" Mittagsschläfchen " by " Kurzweg " , 1917 , ink on paper , 21.5 x 17.5 cm
text on frontside: " Kurzweg 1917 "
text on backside:
" Mittagsschläfchen. Mein Lager als Kriegsgefangener im Dépôt IV (Mühle) in Toulouse (Frankreich). Daneben Felix Oberläuter, rechts Hans Meyer. "
translation:
Afternoon nap. My home as POW in Depot 4 (mill/factory) in Toulouse (France). 'adjoining' Felix Oberläuter, on the right Hans Meyer.
with French censor stamp on backside
There were two POW camps in Toulouse, one for mainly officers [ 55 officers and 32 other ranks ] in the old Carmelites Convent and one for enlisted men in an old factory ' Docks Compans ' with 665 POWs. Kurzweg must have been interned in Docks Compans.
[ source: Red Cross report 1915 ]
As of November 2025 this Kurzweg drawing has left my collection. I never had it framed, it was just kept in a safe place. It is time for me to let things go and I know it has found a good home.