#314 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Barcelona

Result: Day 8

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: ....not sure I really need to write down anything on this page beyond the fact that we walked till we dropped. This is the pose we assumed for most of the day....all over the city taking in the sights, the architecture and drinking waaaaay too much espresso. :)

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Top is J. Herbin and bottom is the Callifolio

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#311 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Barcelona

Result: Day 5

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: ....I was wearing sandals and didn't feel like walking further up the mountain in the 40C heat. I let the hubby go on ahead and sat down to draw.

WV1732/2011

Ink and gouache on Steinbach paper

"Here come old flat-top, he come grooving up slowly

He got ju-ju eyeball, he one holy roller

He got hair down to his knee

Got to be a joker, he just do what he please

He wear no shoeshine, he got toe-jam football

He got monkey finger, he shoot Coca-Cola

He say, "I know you, you know me"

One thing I can tell you is you got to be free

Come together, right now

Over me........."

COME TOGETHER - The Beatles, 1969.

I was joined by a local artist chatting away.

Ink self portrait on recycled paper

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Watercolour and ink on paper

Watercolour and ink on paper

It's Thanksgiving here in Canada today so I'm only going to do this little cartoon that popped into my head when I thought of "turkey day"...

There wasn’t any more time for drawing windows before the sun set.

Watercolour and ink on paper

Watercolour and ink on A4 paper

Ink Test Tree:Iroshizuku ~ Murasaki-shikibu on StillmanandBirn, Zeta paper. Inspired by Blue Jacaranda trees

WV999

2006

Blue Marilyn

Ink and pastel on $teinbach paper

Ink self portrait on recycled paper

Penn Libraries call number: Inc G-122 Folio

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#344 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Husband & best friend's Birthday

Result: HAPPY CAKE DAY!!!

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

Location: home

Note: Best friend and husband share the same birthday (although different years)....I must have a thing for Virgos (even gave birth to one). They sure are handy for keeping this scatterbrained Sagittarius organized and on track. ;)

Above:

Pro Conuentu Augustano [frat]rum Min[orum] Strict[oris]: obserua[ntiae] ad

S. sepulchru[m]

[Early ms. ownership inscription of a Franciscan Observant house in Augsburg, Germany, under the patronage of the Holy Sepulcher or Heiliges Grab, founded 1614 and secularized 1807.]

At right:

johannes Telserus

3 Calenas[?] Julij.

1575[?]

[Dated late 16th-century autograph (date possibly to be interpreted as 29 June 1575) of Johannes Telserus.]

Beneath:

Early large ms. sketch of a balance with Latin captions and largely illegible ms. inscription in another hand.

Penn Libraries call number: Inc A-1004 Folio

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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.

Watercolor and ink on paper

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Original ink painting on paper and digital reworked...

Mark Knopfler Songs Illustrated

KILL TO GET CRIMSON

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Let It All Go

Music & lyrics by Mark Knopfler 2007

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When it's pop goes the weasel

Let go of the easel

You don't want

This rickety rackety life

It's seat of the trousers

It's all sink or swim, son

I'd kill to get crimson

On this palette knife

And I'd steal in a minute

I'm up to here in it

You here behaving

As though I'm a saint

Get a job with a pension

Don't ever mention

You once had a craving

For the brushes and paint

So go, forget it, let it all go

Let it all go

Go, forget it, let it all go

Go, forget it, let it all go

Let it all go

Go, forget it, let it all go

Let it all go

A hack writer judges

My swipes and my smudges

He doesn't like pictures

With blotches and blots

The drawing room tea set

Wants horses, sunsets

Sweet nothings -

The seaside with yachts

Here's the end of the thirties

No time for arties

Over in Poland

A right old to-do

So go join the navy

The air force or the army

They'll all be enrolling

Young fellows like you

So go, forget it, let it all go

Let it all go

Go, forget it, let it all go

Go, forget it, let it all go

Let it all go

Go, forget it, let it all go

Let it all go

These are not my decisions

Flaming visions

Ringing expressions

The clamouring voice

It's volcanic desire

The unquenchable fire

It isn't a question

Of having the choice

Anyway, now I'm old

But if you won't be told

If you've been created

To answer the call

All passion and lust

Is going to end in the dust

But you'll hang on some

Government gallery wall

You must go, forget it

Let it all go, let it all go

Go, forget it, let it all go

Go, forget it

Let it all go, let it all go

Go, forget it, let it all go

Let it all go

Watercolour and ink on paper

Pen and ink on A4 paper

Hare no.6 ~ dip nib with Platinum Carbon Black from @GouletPens on @StCuthbertsMill Bockingford watercolour paper

#251 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: First cherries of the season

Result: Cherries!

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Platinum Carbon Fountain Pen, Sakura Micron 005, Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour & Polychromos pencils in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon series sketchbook ( 21.6 cm 27.9 cm / 8 1/2" x 11")

Location: Home

Note: ...I am happy cherry season is upon us :) That aside, I'm going to have to play bit more with mixing media, in particular watercolours & pencil crayon....

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012

Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler Songs Illustrated

BROTHERS IN ARMS

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Money For Nothing

Music & lyrics by Dire Straits (with Sting) & mark Knopfler 1985

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I want my MTV

Now look at them yo-yo's that's the way you do it

You play the guitar on the MTV

That ain't workin' that's the way you do it

Money for nothin' and your chicks for free

Now that ain't workin' that's the way you do it

Lemme tell ya them guys ain't dumb

Maybe get a blister on your little finger

Maybe get a blister on your thumb

We gotta install microwave ovens

Custom kitchen deliveries

We gotta move these refrigerators

We gotta move these colour TV's

(See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup

Yeah buddy that’s his own hair

That little faggot got his own jet airplane

That little faggot he’s a millionaire)

Gotta install microwave ovens

Custom kitchen deliveries

We gotta move these refrigerators

Gotta move these colour TV's

I shoulda learned to play the guitar

I shoulda learned to play them drums

Look at that mama, she got it stickin' in the camera

Man we could have some

And he's up there, what's that? Hawaiian noises?

Bangin' on the bongoes like a chimpanzee

That ain't workin' that's the way you do it

Get your money for nothin' get your chicks for free

We gotta install microwave ovens

Custom kitchens deliveries

We gotta move these refrigerators

We gotta move these colour TV's

Look a' here

That ain't workin' that's the way you do it

You play the guitar on your MTV

That ain't workin' that's the way you do it

Money for nothin' and your chicks for free

Money for nothin' and chicks for free

Money for nothin' and your chicks for free

Look at that, look at that

Money for nothin' and your chicks for free

I want my, I want my, I want my MTV

Money for nothin' and chicks for free

(Fade)

I want my, I want my, I want my MTV

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.

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2014

Elton John/Leon Russell Songs Illustrated

THE UNION

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Jimmie Ridger's Dream

Music & lyrics by Elton John, Leon Russell, T Bone Burnett & Bernie Taupin 2010

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I'm looking at a funeral wagon rolling down

A two-lane highway winding past a desert town

A big blue canvas painted by the Master's hand

The shifting clouds above and endless miles of sand

In that mirror maybe that's what's left of me

Wheezing like a freight train hauling sixty tons of steel

Air 'em out's the best release and get some rest

Carrie don't wait up for me the brakeman's going West

In this room all alone I dream of you

In this drawer I found someone I never knew

Now I pop a top and stay up late with Gideon

And fall asleep to visions of Meridian

I've seen dusty beaten delta boys cutting heads

A black face carney showman scare a song to death

In my short life I've seen as much as most men need

I'm just looking for some cleaner air to breathe

Far away, far away

So many years, so many days

All along this broken land

I've seen a lover's empty arms

And hunger's empty hand

Leaf a4v 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 hatless) in a ship 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.

This is a pen-and-inkdrawing of the boats and the cannery where I earned my way through university. I pumped diesel and gas into fishing boats and ran an amateur bird hospital, cleaning off oilslicked birds that the fishermen brought me, and releasing them (the birds, not the fishermen, obv.)

My aunt gave me this picture about a decade ago, and I treasure it so much. Summers at the cannery gave me confidence, judgment, and stamina.

WV1781/2013

Ink and gouache on Steinbach paper.

'Some girls' just listen to the Rolling Stones...

"Some girls give me money

Some girls buy me clothes

Some girls give me jewelry

That I never thought I'd own

Some girls give me diamonds

Some girls, heart attacks

Some girls I give all my bread to

I don't ever want it back......"

SOME GIRLS - The Rolling Stones, 1978.

20231028 - Sparkle - Ink Drawing