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Watercolour and ink on paper

Inktober 2023

Day 6

GOLDEN

This year, I will try to make INKTOBER drawings based on popculture, drawn without sketching first.

I used to watch all the old James Bond movies as a kid with my dad. I loved them... I still love watching them.

The Man with the Golden Gun was one of my favorites. Perhaps not the best drawing so far, but that is how I roll.

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.

....Sensing a theme here. Just going to let the current obsession play itself out..

Materials: Noodler's, J. Herbine, Diamine & Private Reserve Inks on Stillman & Birn, Zeta paper...

Ink self portrait on recycled paper

Swirls drawn in Las Vegas.

#330 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: jet-lagged

Result: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Sakura Micron 005 & Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils in a Stillman & Birn Zeta series sketchbook

Location: home in Canada

Note:....Had a great time but ....the best part of travel is getting home to your own bed and routine. :)

...also...I filled an entire book!

Ink self portrait on recycled paper

Watercolour and ink on paper

A drawing of a Tatzelwurm (model is Maximillian von Strange), using all the colours in the September 2015 Inkdrop from The Goulet Pen Company.

Diamine ~ Amazing Amethyst

Diamine ~ Onyx Black

Faber-Castell ~ Garnet Red

Pelikan Edelstein ~ Jade

Pelikan Edelstein ~ Topaz

on Stillman & Birn, Zeta paper.

** the jade and topaz really pop in real life. I can't scan those two colours for the life of me. In real life the colours mingle to form an amazing teal.

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i actually drew this not today. but i will make it the first of my 365. just because i say so.

hello second 365. first one bummed after a week. so. apologies but this one wont just be photos.. but scans from my journal too... but they will all be done on the day duuuuuuhhh.

oh. except this one. hah.

please stick with me through it. i am determined to finish it!!

and just while your here:

clck hre 4 tmblr

and clck hre 4 blg

and clck hre 4 lkbk

Fun morning with the Brisbane Urban Sketchers at South Bank. I really love drawing the Moreton Bay Fig Tree trunks.. Can you find the water dragon?

Greetings from Barcelona.

I have been having an excellent time here and am off to Dublin in a few hours. There is sure to be a shock to the system as we have experienced nothing but sunshine and hot, humid weather (30C+) since we arrived.

Here is a sample page from my travel / art journal, daily drawing #313. We were at the beach in Sitges, on the outskirts of Barcelona for a day. There will be a proper photo / drawing dumping upon my return.

#313 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Barcelona / Sitges

Result: Day 7

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: we went to the beach.....I wore the infamous bikini and spent most of my time chewing through a book in the shade while hubby cooked in the sun. Everyone was happy :)

WV1516/2010

Gouache and ink on Steinbach paper.

"We're playing those mind games together

Pushing the barriers planting seeds

Playing the mind guerrilla

Chanting the Mantra peace on earth

We all been playing those mind games forever

Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil

Doing the mind guerrilla

Some call it magic the search for the grail..."

MIND GAMES - John Lennon, 1973.

Watercolour and ink on paper

One of my personal favourites

WV1003

2007

"Oh little Jeannie, you got so much love, little Jeannie

But you're burning it up so fast, searching for some lasting truth..."

Ink on Steinbach paper

WV1755

2011

B

Summer of 2011

Ink on $teinbach paper

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler Songs Illustrated

DIRE STRAITS

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Sultans Of Swing

Music & lyrics by Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler 1978

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You get a shiver in the dark

It's a rainin' in the park, but meantime

South of the river you stop and you hold everything

A band is blowin' Dixie double four time

You feel alright when you hear the music ring...

And now you step inside but you don't see too many faces

Comin' in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down

Competition in other places...

Oh but the horns they blowin' that sound

Way on down south, way on down south London town

You check out Guitar George, he knows all the chords

But he's strictly rhythm he doesn't wanna make it cry or sing

They've said an old guitar is all he can afford

When he gets up under the lights to play his thing

And Harry doesn't mind, if he doesn't make the scene

He's got a daytime job, he's doin' alright

He can play the honky tonk like anything

Savin' it up, Friday night...

With the Sultans... with the Sultans of Swing

And a crowd of young boys they're fooling around in the corner

Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles

They don't give a damn 'bout any trumpet playing band

It ain't what they call rock and roll

And the Sultans... yeah the Sultans, they play Creole

Creole

Uh huh

And then the man he steps right up to the microphone

And says at last just as the time bell rings

'Goodnight, now it's time to go home'

And he makes it fast with one more thing

'We are the Sultans... We are the Sultans of Swing'

Detail of 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 initial J 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

All images from this book

Penn Libraries catalog record

Ink self portrait on recycled paper

Ink self portrait on recycled paper

Ink line drawing on recycled paper

This is a drawing in a moleskine notebook I made of my wife Laurie while I was home on leave from Afghanistan in 2005.

#315 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Barcelona

Result: Day 9

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: ...yes. Yes I really do own a parasol and use it on sunny days. :3

After seeing the bamboo at the SD Zoo... I realized the real ones are very crowded indeed. *shrugs* I'm not sure i like this one, but... thought it would be good to show as progress

#295 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Today is the birthday of Rembrandt

Result: Squirrel with a pearl earring

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Platinum Carbon Fountain Pen & Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils in a Stillman & Birn Zeta series sketchbook

Location: Home

Note: ...it was just a fun thing to do :) Of course....the actual painting was done by Vermeer, a contemporary of Rembrandt, but I couldn't shake this particular idea/image loose from my head. Muses are tricky that way ;)

Early ms. sketch of a male figure in robe and hat holding a flowering branch(? -- or possibly a palm of martyrdom) in brown ink

Penn Libraries call number: Inc A-551 pt. 1 Folio

All images from this volume

All images from this incunable

ink on some kind of fancy vellum paper- and yes, im talking about the easily smeared ink pens those old people used way back then. ;D

Leaf a6v of an incunable edition of Euclid's Elements, translated into Latin by Adelard of Bath (Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 25 May 1482; ISTC ie00113000) with woodcut initials and diagrams and two ms. diagrams in brown ink.

Established heading: Ratdolt, Erhard, 1447?-1527 or 1528

Penn Libraries call number: Inc E-113 Folio

All images from this book

Penn Libraries catalog record

Penn Libraries call number: Inc V-40 Folio

All images from this book

So today I was playing around with the inks from the June Sampler I received from www.gouletpens.com/

....aside from being highly impressed with this economical way to test ink colours, I am equally pleased with the selection.

My criteria is going to be different from those who use the inks for writing purposes....but then you already know that if you've been paying attention to my work.

Okay so this tree combines 3 of the 5 samples: Diamine Salamander, Private Reserve Ebony Brown and Platinum Free-mix Earth Brown with:

~ Noodler's Golden Brown + Rohrer & Klingner Alt-Goldgrun

They all work REALLY well together. They work so well that I think I need to go draw more trees....that was fun.