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WV1960/2024
THE LION OF MUGELLO
Gastone Nencini (1930 -1980) was an Italian cyclist with a professional career from 1953 to 1965.
Nencini won the final victory in both the Tour de France 1960 and the Giro d'Italia 1957. As a very good climber and descender, he also won the mountain classification in both cycling races. In the Tour of Italy he won a total of seven stage victories and in the Tour de France he was successful in a stage four times.
He was nicknamed "The Lion of Mugello", after his birthplace. Nencini, who was a chain smoker, was also an amateur painter.
Had time to draw my weeping angel for a topper on my Dr. Who Christmas tree, since we had no power all day.
Ink on Stillman & Birn Zeta paper. I am very happy how this paper holds it's shape.:)
I'll share a photo of the finished tree ASAP.
#322 of 365 Daily Drawings
Inspiration: Islay, Scotland
Result: Day 17
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: .....everyone seemed to have a dog in Scotland. I had wondered aloud where the cats were the previous day. OH....they are under my bed. Got it. ;)
#332 of 365 Daily Drawings
Inspiration: Stuffed animal on my desk
Result: Nyanpire!!
Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Sakura Micron 005 & Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon series sketchbook
Location: home
Note: Today is a bit of fanart fluff. On my desk is a stuffed black kitten vampire who is tooth achingly cute in the way only Japanese anime creations seem to manage. I just couldn't help myself....he's so kawaii :3
WV1002
2007
"Lovely Rita meter maid,
May I inquire discreetly,
When are you free,
To take some tea with me."
Ink and coloured pencil on Steinbach paper
#348 of 365 Daily Drawings
Inspiration: Still thinking about the illustrated Aratea manuscripts
Result: Cat
Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Sakura Micron 005 in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon series sketchbook
Location: home
Note: You can learn about these 8 -12th century manuscripts and look at them on the British Library site, here:
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2014
Elton John/Leon Russell Songs Illustrated
THE UNION
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If It Wasn't For Bad
Music & lyrics by Leon Russell & Elton John 2010
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I knew from the first night I met you
Something just wasn't quite right
Looked like an innocent stranger
But something was just out of sight
How could I know that you would use me
Fill out some plan of your own
I couldn't know you'd abuse me
Leave me here hurt and alone
If it wasn't for you I'd be happy
If it wasn't for lies you'd be true
I know you could be just like you should
If it wasn't for bad you'd be good
I only saw what I wanted to see
You were a dream in my mind
I didn't know how you really could be
It didn't take long for me to find
I guess that it's my fault for seeing
Only what I wanted to see
I couldn't know you would be
A player just acting for me
Iroshizuku Yama-budo and Ina-ho inks on Stillman and Birn,zeta paper with a bit of water ....
....yup. REALLY like these two shades together....
De Atramentis ~ Pigeon Blue on Stillman & Birn Zeta paper
....really like this teal. It has that nice grey undertone so it isn't screaming at you off the page. Very classy colour.
Playing around with Sailor, Pentel and a couple other pens during some down time in work. This goes along with an old drawing I did decades ago which I pulled from storage. The old drawing was inspired by the song by The Cramps. The logo is new and will probably go with the drawing once I ink it in.
#sketch #sketchbook #ink #inkdrawing #thecramps #horror #doodle #lettering
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
Elton John Songs Illustrated
SLEEPING WITH THE PAST
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Amazes Me
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1989
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You're a cool little one
My dark southern breeze
Sweeps through my fingers
And it amazes me
Dixie shadowland
Your envy shelters me
Lay down your burden
Mystery of ebony
And it amazes me
Oh it amazes me
Maybe the heat babe could be this tune
It amazes me
It amazes me
What drives me crazy is that big fat yellow moon
Look up that pale light
Well she's waking the trees
I'm drifting in your hoodoo
And it amazes me
That magnolia state
Got a hold on me
I got no blues to preach
Just Mississippi company
Ain't no magic potion
No gri-gri on her side
She's bound to my salvation
Sweet little mama
Take me down by the river tonight
And it amazes me
Cezar Chavez from Delano California worked for the equal rights and dignity of the farm workers. Cezar worked in the fields being sprayed with pestcides and no rights or protections for the individual. He was a hero for the immigrant and American citizens who worked in the fields. He wanted justice and protection for those who pick our food.,
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2014
Leon Russell Songs Illustrated
CARNEY
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Magic Mirror
Music & lyrics by Leon Russell 1976
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I'm standing by the highway
Suitcase by my side
There's no place I want to go
I just thought I'd catch a ride
Many people look my way
And many pass me by
In moments of reflection
I wonder why
To the thieves I am a bandit
The mothers think I'm a son
To the preachers I'm a sinner
Lord I'm not the only one
To the sad ones I'm unhappy
To the losers I'm a fool
To the students I'm a teacher
With the teachers I'm in school
To the hobos I'm imprisoned by everything I own
To the soldier I'm just someone else who's dying to go home
The general sees a number, a politician's tool
To my friends I'm just an equal in this whirlpool
Magic mirror won't you tell me please
Do I find myself in anyone I see?
Magic mirror if we only could
Try to see ourselves as others would
To policeman I'm suspicious it's in the way I look
I'm just another character to fingerprint and book
To the censors I'm pornography with no redeeming grace
To hooker I'm a customer without a face
The sellers think I'm merchandise, they'll help me for a song
The left ones think I'm right,
The right ones think I'm wrong
And many people look my way
And many pass me by
And in my quiet reflection I wonder why
Magic mirror won't you tell me please
Do I see myself in anyone I meet?
Magic mirror if we only could
Try to see ourselves as others would
#317 of 365 Daily Drawings
Inspiration: Dublin
Result: Day 11
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 Dublin
Note: ...like I said, Guinness. Also....I was reading Pádraig Ó Tuama's collections of poems, Sorry for your Troubles. The book is breathtakingly moving and beautiful. I HIGHLY recommend this volume.
I can close the sketchbook on my 4th Inktober. Whew. By day seven I found myself edging toward a cartoonish style, and had to haul out the fountain pen inks & a brush to accompany the dip nib; instead of just Platinum Carbon Black. My goal for the month was to work on drawing cats in different positions. ...and that is exactly what I did. :)
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