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I'm not sure when it occurred to me. Maybe it was criticism that a working artist passed my way. I set the pens down for a month while we were in Nice and let things "sit."
The Muse visited and I started thinking of some really goofy ideas. I said to myself "stuff 'um! I'm doing something silly and I'm doing it for myself."
To explain what these were I did a title page to each drawing. As if it really explained anything, that is.
I first shared these with friends in England during our weekly Zoom calls. We had a "Show and Tell" kind of setup. It was a great way to get beyond the loneliness and to spend time with friends, even if we weren't in person.
Early ms. marginal sketch of an animal (a dog?).
Penn Libraries call number: Inc A-1004 Folio
Penn Libraries catalog record
I'll be debuting my freshly printed jupey cutey volume 1 book at the West Hollywood Book Fair this weekend. yee-haw!
I colored and textures this using the Gimp. The underlying image is a pen and pencil drawing in style of Nicola de Crecy.
Over a year ago when we were confined to avoid spreading a potentially deadly virus, I knew much of my photographic adventures would need to be curtailed. In similar time, something by Stephan Marjoram inspired me to fill a bit of time doing something creative. So I took up ink drawing. Just to see what I could do. I "borrowed" from many different styles as I attempt to explore the medium. And with zero photography projects in the queue I might as well fill this space with something. So here goes.
This is the pre-color version of the album cover I did for my fiance's side-project band with Chris Conley from Saves The Day called Two Tongues.
They let me sing on one of the songs on the record! The album is SO good.
I love it to death.
Here's their myspace
#320 of 365 Daily Drawings
Inspiration: Islay, Scotland
Result: Day 15
Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Sakura Micron 005 & Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils in a Stillman & Birn Zeta series sketchbook
Location: Hotel in Bowmore on Islay, Scotland
Note: love Scotland.
"All I want is a picture of you on my wall, yeah!"
Old76 Music-inspired DArt 2014
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PICTURE THIS
Music and lyrics by Blondie 1978
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"All I want is a room with a view.
A sight worth seeing, a vision of you.
All I want is a room with a view, oh...
I will give you my finest hour, the one I spent watching you shower.
I will give you my finest hour, oh, yeah.
All I want is a photo in my wallet.
A small remembrance of something more solid.
All I want is a picture of you.
Picture this - a day in December.
Picture this - freezing cold weather.
You got clouds on your lids and you'd be on the skids if it weren't for your job at the garage.
If you could only,
Picture this - a sky full of thunder.
Picture this - my telephone number.
One and one is what I'm telling you, oh, yeah.
All I want is 20/20 vision...
A total portrait with no omissions.
All I want is a vision of you, oh...
If you can,
Picture this - a day in December.
Picture this - freezing cold weather.
You got clouds on your lids and you'd be on the skids if it weren't for your job at the garage.
If you could only,
Picture this - a sky full of thunder.
Picture this - my telephone number.
One and one is what I'm telling you.
Get a pocket computer, try to do what ya used to do, yeah.
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.
#123 of 365 Daily Drawings
Inspiration: Staring down a cold that is trying to get a hold of me...bit of a wheeze in my chest.. So...I got to thinking what that could look like
Result: Curious flow
Materials: Platinum Carbon Fountain Pen, Faber Castell PITT brush pens in a Stillman & Birn Gamma series sketchbook ( 21.6 cm 27.9 cm / 8 1/2" x 11")
Location: Home
Note: Behold! My breathing is like a beaded curtain! The mind is definitely outside the box today...and I haven't even taken any cold meds yet <.<
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
Elton John Songs Illustrated
VICTIM OF LOVE
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Johnny B Goode
Music & lyrics by Chuck Berry
Disco cover by Elton John 1979
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Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans
Way back up in the woods among the evergreens
There stood an log cabin made of earth and wood
Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode
Who never learned to read or write so well
But he could play a guitar just like ringing a bell
Go go
Go Johnny go go go
Go Johnny go go go
Go Johnny go go go
Go Johnny go go go
Go go Johnny B. Goode
He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack
Sat beneath the tree by the railroad track
An engineer could see him sitting in the shade
Strumming with the rhythm that the drivers made
The People passing by, they would stop and say
Oh my, how that little country boy could play
His mother told him, someday you will be a man
You will be the leader of a big old band
Many people coming from miles around
To hear you play your music when the sun goes down
And maybe someday your name will be in lights
Saying Johnny B. Goode tonight
Pen drawing of a fantasy figure that seems to repeat itself in my work Just like our lives sometimes we feel like a catepillar and sometimes we emerge into a butterfly. It all begins with our thoughts about ourselves and who we are and the deeds we do to help humanity.
#321 of 365 Daily Drawings
Inspiration: Islay, Scotland
Result: Day 16
Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Sakura Micron 005 & Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils in a Stillman & Birn Zeta series sketchbook
Location: Hotel in Bowmore on Islay, Scotland
Note: love learning about scotch ...in Scotland.
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, O.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.
WV1536
2010
AZ
"Just for today
I could try to live through this day only
Not deal with all life's problems
Just for today..."
(George Harrison lyrics)
Ink and coloured pencil on $teinbach paper
#319 of 365 Daily Drawings
Inspiration: Scotland
Result: Day 14
Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Sakura Micron 005 & Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils in a Stillman & Birn Zeta series sketchbook
Location: B&B in Tarbert
Note: ... the scanner really hiccuped on this one...the colours are very subtle. THIS image is about us getting used to driving on the other side of the road again...traumatic like usual. Much writing to be added below the illustration...
WV1268
2008
AZ
"I'm a honky tonk man and I can't seem to stop
Love to give the girls a whirl to the music of an old jukebox
When my money's all gone I'm on the telephone
Singin' hey hey mama can your daddy come home..."
(Dwight Yoakam Songs)
Coloured pencil and ink on $teinbach paper
#243 of 365 Daily Drawings
Inspiration: Image of Chipa with scarf + cat
Result: Chipa Neko
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: The temperature has done a real turn around from Monday, so off goes the A/C and on goes the furnace. Frost tonight. Just brrr. So it’s perfect timing to be inspired by this Harajuku regular, Chipa & her wonderful blue/green hair. Blue cat’s are on my brain this week :3
...also, I wanted to work on creating depth with the scarf/hair. ;)
#316 of 365 Daily Drawings
Inspiration: Dublin
Result: Day 10
Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Sakura Micron 005 & Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils in a Stillman & Birn Zeta series sketchbook
Location: B&B Dublin
Note: Hubby had a list of OLD pubs he wanted to stand at the bar and drink a Guinness in. That...is pretty much what we did in Dublin.