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Oh DO go on. You were saying something about 'being a black cat means having impunity to bad luck'... particularly on Friday the 13th.
#307 of 365 Daily Drawings
Inspiration: Barcelona
Result: Day 1
Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Sakura Micron 005 & Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils in a Stillman & Birn Zeta series sketchbook
Location: apartment in Barcelona
Note: The next 23 drawings are reflections of my trip to Spain, Dublin and Scotland. It's a combination sketchbook / journal. Not all of the pages contain writing ....those are yet to be filled in because while I did make a point of doing a drawing every day I really didn't have time to also fill in the blanks with words...those are to come. I just needed to get these posted so I could get my daily drawings back on track. :)
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
France Gall Songs Illustrated
PARIS-FRANCE 50 707
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Il Jouait Du Piano Debout
Musique & paroles France Gall & Michel Berger
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Ne me dites pas que ce garçon était fou
Il ne vivait pas comme les autres, c'est tout
Et pour quelles raisons étranges
Les gens qui n'sont pas comme nous,
Ça nous dérange
Ne me dites pas que ce garçon n'valait rien
Il avait choisi un autre chemin
Et pour quelles raisons étranges
Les gens qui pensent autrement
Ça nous dérange
Ça nous dérange
Il jouait du piano debout
C'est peut-être un détail pour vous
Mais pour moi, ça veut dire beaucoup
Ça veut dire qu'il était libre
Heureux d'être là malgré tout
Il jouait du piano debout
Quand les trouillards sont à genoux
Et les soldats au garde à vous
Simplement sur ses deux pieds,
Il voulait être lui, vous comprenez
Il n'y a que pour la musique, qu'il était patriote
Il s'rait mort au champ d'honneur pour quelques notes
Et pour quelles raisons étranges,
Les gens qui tiennent à leurs rêves,
Ça nous dérange
Lui et son piano, ils pleuraient quelques fois
Mais quand les autres n'étaient pas là
Et pour quelles raisons bizarres,
Son image a marqué ma mémoire,
Ma mémoire..
Il jouait du piano debout
Il chantait sur des rythmes fous
Et pour moi ça veut dire beaucoup
Ça veut dire essaie de vivre
Essaie d'être heureux,
Ça vaut le coup
#352 of 365 Daily Drawings
Inspiration: My son + our cat + laser pointer
Result: Mouse snipers
Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Sakura Micron 005 & Faber-Castell Pitt artist pen Red ~ 219, in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon series sketchbook
Location: home
Note: The red dot of a laser pointer is to a cat, what spotting a squirrel is to a dog. Soon the mice will figure out .....it doesn't just distract cats, it embarrasses them. Feline pride goes OFF. THE. RAILS!.
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.
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
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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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.
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
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.
© 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
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