Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Pink Floyd Songs Illustrated

ATOM HEART MOTHER

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Fat Old Sun

Music & lyrics by Pink Floyd, David Gilmour 1970

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When that fat old sun in the sky is falling

Summer evenin' birds are calling

Summer's Sunday and a year

The sound of music in my ears

Distant bells

New mown grass smells so sweet

By the river holding hands

Roll me up and lay me down

And if you see

Don't make a sound

Pick your feet up off the ground

And if you hear as the warm night falls

The silver sound from a time so strange

Sing to me

Sing to me

When that fat old sun in the sky is falling

Summer evenin' birds are calling

Children's laughter in my ears

The last sunlight disappears

And if you see

Don't make a sound

Pick your feet up off the ground

And if you hear as the warm night falls

The silver sound from a time so strange

Sing to me

Sing to me

When that fat old sun in the sky is...(fades out)

Ink self portrait on recycled paper

Ink self portrait on recycled paper

Ink self portrait on recycled paper

#229 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Fishnet stockings

Result: How to catch a mermaid

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Platinum Carbon Fountain Pen, Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils & Faber-Castell PITT artist pen white 101 in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon series sketchbook ( 21.6 cm 27.9 cm / 8 1/2" x 11")

Location: Home

Note: Thought process was thus: Looking at pin-up girls from the 40's => stockings => soldiers/sailors giving gifts of rationed stockings to the ladies they fancied => sailors dream of mermaids => but mermaids have no use for stockings => but sailors fishing for gals might...right?

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#297 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Squirrels + The Nude Maja by Spanish Painter, Goya

Result: The Squirrel Maja

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

Location: Home

Note: just rolling with the idea of incorporating my rodent muses as part of my up coming art journal for my trip to Spain & Scotland. Pure nonsense for the sake of experimentation with the materials that will be traveling with me :)

Amaryllis ~ drawn with Rohrer&Kingner calligraphy Alt-Goldgrun & DeAtramentis Document Red inks on StillmanandBirn Zeta, paper

WV1961/2024

Ecoline ink on Steinbach paper.

Memories of my younger years... the early sixties.

The marbles represented the Tour de France cyclists. Yellow for Jacques Anquetil, red for Rik Van Looy.

The pencils have always remained...

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.

#296 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Picasso's Girl Before a Mirror

Result: Squirrel Before a Mirror

Materials: Sakura Micron 005, Kuretake No. 13 Fountain Brush Pen & Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils in a Stillman & Birn Zeta series sketchbook

Location: Home

Note: I leave in 10 days for holidays (Spain & Scotland) which has me thinking about how to approach my travel art journal. I am not interested in documenting architecture (which many people seem to enjoy doing) nor do I just want to create something akin to a scrapbook. I think my imaginary menagerie will continue to be my social commentators on this journey and the focus of my sketchbook....hence the squirrelified Picasso.

Thankfully I was able to score a pair if Zeta sketchbooks from an American online supplier before they were out of stock....which although unfortunate for those wanting to try the paper, speaks highly for the product. Now I have to make the executive decision on what art supplies to pack....decisions, decisions.

#351 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Why do elephants paint their toenails red?

Result: So they can hide in cherry trees....

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: It's an old children's joke that was begging to be drawn....at least the voices in my head were nagging me about it.

Watercolour and ink on paper

Penn Libraries call number: IC55 T1856 627d 1629

All images from this book

A portrait of CARLA BRUNI and president OBAMA in a singalong mood, but does he does he know French....

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012

Elton John Songs Illustrated

THE FOX

Carla Etude

I was joined by a local artist chatting away.

#192 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: GQ + Robins

Result: ....it's hip to be bob bob bobbin along.

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Platinum Carbon Fountain Pen & Faber-Castell watercolour pencils in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon series sketchbook ( 21.6 cm 27.9 cm / 8 1/2” x 11”)

Location: Home

Note: ...it hit me like a bolt of lightning while looking at some scarlet & black fashions in a GQ editorial. Black + Red + Italian fashion + robins, which are black and red... all come together naturally into Robin Hipsters...right? :)

Or... maybe it's another one of those 'just me' things ...either way I rather liked the way this one turned out :3

society6.com/thegrayghostnyc/collection/tapestry-marvels?...

Watercolour and ink on A4 paper

Watercolour and ink on paper

WV1714/2011

Ecoline ink on Steinbach paper...

"Oh Jessie I'd like to be

One of those men upon the screen

With an elegant lady and a cafe in Paris

Serving Pernot and Kalua with cream

You can see it I know

All the doors have been closed in my face

And the drinks at the Casbah

Run a mile or more from this place

And oh Jessie won't you look at the planes

Tell me, oh Jessie, is it true what they say

That there's a capital G in the name of the game

And the runway's a home for my silver-grey planes

And won't you look at the planes

Riding down the skyway

Jessie ain't those wings just fine

Don't it make you want to fly someday

Why friend am I so still

Tied to my job with time to kill

Do I still bear the traces of old Don Quixote

Tilting giants on imaginary hills...."

PLANES - Music & lyrics Elton John & Bernie Taupin, 1975.

Early ms. sketch of a male figure (in military dress, armed with a shield?) on verso of last printed leaf in volume.

Penn Libraries call number: GC5 K8183 529e

All images from this book

Penn Libraries catalog record (work 1)

Penn Libraries catalog record (work 2)

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Billy Joel Songs Illustrated

RIVER OF DREAMS

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Blonde Over Blue

Music & lyrics by Billy Joel 1993

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Some days, when I'm far away

In a lonely room in a cold seclusion

Some nights when I'm wound so tight

There is no release, there is no solution

In hell, there's a big hotel

Where the bar just closed and the windows never opened

No phone, so you can't call home,

And the TV works, but the clicker is broken

But, in the darkness, I see your light turned on

You know my weakness, you know how I respond to...

Blonde over blue

Your hands are cold, your eyes are fire

Blonde over blue

They shine as though you're burning inside

One word from you is all I need to be inspired

Blonde over blue

I need your inspiration tonight

These days, there's a million ways

To be pulled and torn, to be misdirected

These times, there are sins and crimes

On the morning shows for the disconnected

I look, and I write my book,

And I walk away with the wrong impressions

Don't care 'cause I've done my share,

And I need some time for my own obsessions

It doesn't matter, I've let that life go by

It's been forgotten 'cause all I wanted was you

Blonde over blue

Your hands are cold, your eyes are fire

Blonde over blue

They shine as though you're burning inside

One word from you is all I need to be inspired

Blonde over blue

I need your inspiration tonight

These days, not a damn soul prays,

And there is no faith 'cause there's nothing to believe in

These days, only good luck pays

If we don't get paid, then we try to get even

I look, and I write my book,

And I have my say, and I draw conclusions

Some nights when I'm wound so tight

There is no release, there is no solution

But, in the darkness, I see your light turned on

You know my weakness, you know how I respond to...

Watercolour and ink on paper

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2011

Elton John Songs Illustrated

RARE MASTERS

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Ho! Ho! Ho! (Who'd Be A Turkey At Christmas)

Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1973

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Sitting here on Christmas Eve with a brandy in my hand

Oh I've had a few too many and it's getting hard to stand

I keep hearing noises from my fireplace

I must be going crazy or the brandy's won the race

And I keep hearing ho ho ho, guess who's here

Your fat and jolly friend draws near

Ho ho ho, surprise, surprise

The bearded weirdy's just arrived

Ho ho ho, guess who's here

Your fat and jolly friend draws near

Ho ho ho, surprise surprise

The bearded wierdy's just arrived

On my roof there's snorting sounds, and bells inside my head

My vision's blurred with colour, and all he sees is red

There's a pair of large sized wellies coming down my flue

And the smell of burning rubber, oh is filling up the room

Ink self portrait on recycled paper

Another ink from Knight's Writing Co., the Canadian distributor of this Polish ink...so chuffed about it being available here.

ANYway...WHAT is this ink? Look at that...LOOK. AT. THAT!

A mysterious shade of darkish green (like soapstone) when using a dip pen, it definately is good with a flex nib...but whoa *points to tree* that is just SO cool. :D

Ink self portrait on recycled paper

WV1382

2009

AZ

A portrait of DAVEY JOHNSTONE, the Scottish rock guitarist and leader from the Elton John Band for more than 40 years now.

Acryl and ink on $teinbach paper

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2014

Elton John/Leon Russell Songs Illustrated

THE UNION

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Gone To Shiloh

Music & lyrics Leon Russell, Neil Young, Elton John & Bernie Taupin 2010

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Luther left us first light Friday morning

Little Dan and Becky waved goodbye

They're gonna have to share the weight together

Idle hands will see a good farm slowly die

Gone to Shiloh for the Union

Shoulder to shoulder, side by side

Gone to Shiloh, hope springs eternal

When flags and bullets start to fly

April's come and the air smells fresh with rain

They watched his shadow fade around the bend

He's headed for a different kind of thunder

And the stunned surprise in the eyes of dying men

Gone to Shiloh for the Union

Shoulder to shoulder, side by side

Gone to Shiloh, time passes slowly

When flags and bullets start to fly

The old black rooster sang him down that dirt road

His step seemed bold, his manner fancy-free

I pray we see him alive and well in the fall here

Than that God-forsaken place in Tennessee

After all of this

If we should prevail

Heaven help the South

When Sherman comes their way

Ink self portrait on recycled paper

WV1771

2012

B

Madman Across The Water Elton John

Ink on $teinbach paper

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2014

Dire Straits Songs Illustrated

ON EVERY STREET

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Calling Elvis

Music & lyrics by Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler 1991

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Calling Elvis

Is anybody home

Calling Elvis

I'm here all alone

Did he leave the building

Or can he come to the phone

Calling Elvis

I'm here all alone

Well tell him I was calling just to wish him well

Let me leave my number

Heartbreak hotel

Oh love me tender

Baby don't be cruel

Return to sender

Treat me like a fool

Calling Elvis

Is anybody home

Calling Elvis

I'm here all alone

Did he leave the building

Can he come to the phone

Calling Elvis

I'm here all alone

Why don't you go get him

I'm his biggest fan

You gotta tell him

He's still the man

Long distance baby

So far from home

Don't you think maybe you could put him on

Well tell him I was calling just to wish him well

Let me leave my number

Heartbreak hotel

Oh love me tender

Baby don't be cruel

Return to sender

Treat me like a fool

Calling Elvis

Is anybody home

Calling Elvis

I'm here all alone

Did he leave the building

Or can he come to the phone

Calling Elvis

I'm here all alone

Watercolour and ink on paper

ink and pastel page of jupey cutey volume 1

Watercolour and ink on paper

#106 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Season premier of Lost Girl last night

Result: Really fast fanart of Kenzi

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Sakura Micron 02, OHTO graphic liner 10, Faber Catstell PITT artist Brush 199** in a *Moleskine Folio journal ( 21 cm 30 cm / 8 1/4" x 11 1/4")

Location: Home

Note: Trying out a selection of pens on new paper as I try to nip habits in the bud before they get entrenched.

~ I automatically run all these images through a photo filter after I've scanned them, as the project is meant to be just B/W images and not all my paper is consistent.

*Moleskine folio ~ this is a hardbound, heavy (160g) cream coloured paper. All Moleskine journals are now Made in China and I have to say that my experience today was A FIRST. I started drawing in pencil and then erased some lines to start again. I ERASED THE CREAM COLOUR off the page to reveal white underneath. WHAT THE F**K is THAT!?!

I can not in all honesty recommend this product to ANYone who actually cares about the paper quality they are drawing/writing on. To me this is just a sketchbook to play in, but I am seriously concerned about that this means for anyone who uses these books for serious work of any kind. Just ew! I will not repeat the mistake of purchasing this product again. The lesson here children is look to Europe or Japan for paper.

As for Lost Girl....OMG I am so happy the new season has been launched and I get to curl up on Sunday nights with my favourite, ass-kicking Fae and her human. I can't decide what I like the most about Kensi...her goth punk street fashion or the attitude with which she wears it. :D

Ink Tree Test: Diamine Ancient Copper on Stillman & Birn, Zeta paper.

I love this ink. I usually have this in one of my fountain pens ready to write. :)

*please note the difference in the ink is due to the use in the flash in the previous photographs. This image is scanned.*

WV1746

2011

B

It's just temporary, you know what I mean...

Ink on $teinbach paper