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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
#239 of 365 Daily Drawings
Inspiration: 4" x 4" x 1 3/8" gallery wrapped canvas for a project
Result: Catnap in blue
Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Platinum Carbon Fountain Pen, Sakura Micron 005, Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils in a Stillman & Birn Alpha series sketchbook ( 21.6 cm 27.9 cm / 8 1/2" x 11")
Location: Home
Note: I signed up for the Pen Pal Painting Exchange, hosted by The Brooklyn Art Library ~ I am provided with the tiny canvas and will paint something upon it & post it back. It will then be matched with another artist and my work will be sent along to them and I will receive theirs.
I have not used acrylics in a very long time, which is why I decided to do this
...forcing myself out of comfort zones and mixing up my medium use. This is an initial study for the piece & I'll paint *the box* on the outside of the canvas' four sides.
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
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.
#304 of 365 Daily Drawings
Inspiration: Today's Para Abnormal comic by Dave Lowe (squirrel octopus)
Result: Catopus
Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Grumbacher acrylic paint, Platinum Carbon Fountain Pen, Uniball SIGNO silver, Faber-Castell brush & Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils in a Stillman & Birn Zeta series sketchbook
Location: Home
Note: I shared the cartoon by Dave Lowe with my best friend and after a good laugh she said that a cat / octopus (or Cthulhu) cross would be a particularly troubling creature...
Leaf a2r of an incunable edition of Richard Swineshead's Liber calculationum (Padua: N.T.S.P., ca. 1477; ISTC is00830000), with rubrication and marginal notes and diagrams.
Penn Libraries call number: Inc S-830 Folio
Penn Libraries catalog record
WV1625/2010
Ink on Steinbach paper...
Billy, The Union Boy.
"Are you standing outside?
Looking up at the sky
Cursing a wandering star
Well if I were you
I'd throw rocks at the moon
I'd say "Damn you wherever you are"
...."
I SHOULD HAVE SENT ROSES - Music & lyrics Elton John, Leon Russell & Bernie Taupin, 2010.