rhododendrons

Ink on paper

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

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I always try and get the best seat for sketching in restaurants.

Watercolour and ink on paper

"a package has arrived with memories"

#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.

psychedelic ink drawing - 2007

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

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Penn Libraries catalog record

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The trip is only a kilometer so I didn’t have much time to draw.

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

Watercolour and ink on paper

Watercolour and ink on paper

Watercolour and ink on A4 paper

WV1529

2010

AZ

All You Create...

Ink on $teinbach paper...

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

mulgatheartist.com.au/

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

Materials: J Herbin 1670 Stormy Grey ink on Stillman & Birn Zeta paper

Watercolour and ink on paper

Watercolour and ink on paper

Drawn to the sound of carneval music.

DeAtramentis Red & Brown, Platinum Carbon black and Walnut ink

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

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Ink self portrait on recycled paper

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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,

Penn Libraries call number: IC55 T1856 592r

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#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.

Watercolour and ink on paper

from my tumblr blog, Evocation

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!

WV1780

2013

B

Martha, you silly girl, what have you done?

Ink and gouache on $teinbach paper

" 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.