I made this inkdrawing of a DS for a car rental company.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Netherlands License.

WV1186

2008

AZ

What I see when I have a few too many? Cows, cows and more cows staring at me before my window...

Coloured pencil and ink on $teinbach paper.

We had a well attended Mothers' Day concert of the Townsmen Barbershop Chorus today. I designed the program cover using my grand daughter, Kate, a flower arrangement from a friend's photo in Niagara-on-the-Lake, and my wife's hands. It was done in ink on paper. Happy mothers' Day to all you moms out there.

Platinum Carbon Black ink on Stillman & Birn, Zeta paper

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Elton John Songs Illustrated

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Are You Ready For Love

Music & lyrics by Elton John & Thom Bell 1979

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Catch a star if you can

Wish for something special

Let it be me, my love is free

Sing a song to yourself

Think of someone listening

One melody, you're all for me

I'll write a symphony just for you and me

If you let me love you, I'll paint a masterpiece

Just for you to see

If you let me love you, let me love you

Are you ready, are you ready for love

Yes I am

Are you, are you ready, are you ready for love

Yes I am

Are you, are you ready, are you ready for love

You're the one like the sun

Shine your love around me

You'll always be the one for me

Say the word and I'll be there

Loving you forever

Don't let me go

Just say it's so

We'll hear the music ring from the mountain tops

To the valley below us

We'll serenade the world

With a lullaby so the angels will know us

Angels will know us

WV1734/2011

Ink & mixed media on $teinbach paper

"They say we bruise too easily

I don't know if it's that way for me

I've seen 'em come, I've seen 'em go

I've seen everyone I know

Fall in and out of love

It's just the way it goes

Word is out, silence seems so loud

There's no light above or below me now

I've seen it grow, I've seen it live

I've seen everything I give

Falling out my hands, no matter who I'm with

And nobody ever tells you

When love is dying, when love is dying

It just gets a little colder

And we stop trying, we stop trying

Yeah we stop trying

Oh when love is dying

There's a pain you never can explain

It cuts so deep time and time again

I felt it then, I feel it now

But nobody told me how

To fight a world of hurt

Somebody help me now

But love never gets to show you

And I never got to know you

No we never stood a chance

When love was dying

No and love never makes it easy

And I never got that feeling

No we never stood a chance

When love was dying..."

WHEN LOVE IS DYING - Music & lyrics Elton John, Leon Russell & Bernie Taupin, 2010.

Encre noire et blanche

WV1740/2011

Ink on $teinbach paper

"I viewed in my presence

My hand on my forehead

And sighting the liners

Of mad merchant seamen

In search of the living

Or the spices of China

Lucy walked gently

Between the damp barrels

And shut out my eyes

With the width of her fingers

Said she'd guessed the number

Of bales in the back room

While the seagulls were screaming

Lucy was eating

Then we hauled up our colours

The way the mother had told us

And together we just watched the sails..."

SAILS - Music & lyrics Elton John & Bernie Taupin, 1969.

WV1348

2009

AZ

"I sang Dixie...as he died

The people just walked on by....as I cried

The bottle had robbed him .....of all his rebel pride

So I sang Dixie as he died..."

(Dwight Yoakam songs illustrated)

Ink on $teinbach paper

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.

Pen drawing of a fantasy figure that seems to repeat itself in my work.

WV1652

2010

After the EJ cover of the Rolling Stone in 1971...

Ink on $teinbach paper

WV1306/2009

Ink on Steinbach paper

"She can kill with a smile

She can wound with her eyes

And she can ruin your faith with her casual lies

And she only reveals

What she wants you to see

She hides like a child

But she's always a woman to me

She can lead you to love

She can take you or leave you

She can ask for the truth

But she'll never believe you

And she'll take what you give her

As long as it's free

Yeah, she steals like a thief

But she's always a woman to me

Oh, she takes care of herself

She can wait if she wants

She's ahead of her time

Oh, and she never gives out

And she never gives in

She just changes her mind

And she'll promise you more

Than the Garden of Eden

Then she'll carelessly cut you

And laugh while you're bleeding

But she'll bring out the best

And the worst you can be

Blame it all on yourself

'Cause she's always a woman to me

Oh, she takes care of herself

She can wait if she wants

She's ahead of her time

Oh, and she never gives out

And she never gives in

She just changes her mind

She is frequently kind

And she's suddenly cruel

She can do as she pleases

She's nobody's fool

But she can't be convicted

She's earned her degree

And the most she will do

Is throw shadows at you

But she's always a woman to me..."

SHE'S ALWAYS A WOMAN - Billy Joel, 1977.

Apache Junction, AZ

Ink drawing laid into a 1591 edition of Aristotle

Penn Libraries call number: GrC Ar466.22 1591 Folio

Black ink on Stillman & Birn Zeta paper

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. And with zero photography projects in the queue, I wanted to fill this space with something. So here goes. I start out be aping M.Marjoram and, as you will later see, I take inspiration from many other sources.

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. And with zero photography projects in the queue, I wanted to fill this space with something. So here goes. I start out be aping M.Marjoram and, as you will later see, I take inspiration from many other sources.

#220 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: First dandelions of the season

Result: They're baaaaack

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Platinum Carbon Fountain Pen & 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: decided to lay down just some of the ink prior to the watercolour, and put it on top afterward. Need to plan better but I like order of layering ...

You can read the corresponding travel text in my blog, under

mikiaboom.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/portugal-in-the-box-13/

Watercolour and ink on paper

One of my personal favourites

More Farmer's Market finds for the "Draw Your Vegetables" group.

Red Chokecherries

Swirls drawn in Las Vegas.

WV1349

2009

AZ

And she's far away somewhere...

Ink drawing on $teinbach paper

drawings in #alphabetod and #delusional and #popgunwar #chainletter and #itwillallhurt #inkdrawings #lineartwork #booksketches

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.

Watercolour and ink on paper

Classic racing has fewer spectators compared to formula one!

A local artist friend of mine showed me some art he was working on. Lots of detail

#273 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: wanted to play with watercolor

Result: Jellyfish

Materials: Sakura Micron 005, General Primo white charcoal, Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils & PITT artist pan white on Canson Montval watercolor paper

Location: Home

Note: Continuing to explore mixed mediums..

Ink

Last year

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Elton John Songs Illustrated

REG STRIKES BACK

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I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That

Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1988

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I've always said that one's enough to love

Now I hear you're bragging one is not enough

Something tells me you're not satisfied

You got plans to make me one of four or five

I guess this kind of thing's just in your blood

But you won't catch me carving up my love

I ain't no puzzle piece that needs to fit

If it takes more than me let's call it quits

`Cause I don't wanna go on with you like that

Don't wanna be a feather in your cap

I just wanna tell you honey I ain't mad

But I don't wanna go on with you like that

It gets so hard sometimes to understand

This vicious circle's getting out of hand

Don't need an extra eye to see

That the fire spreads faster in a breeze

And I don't wanna go on with you like that

Don't wanna be a feather in your cap

I just wanna tell you honey I ain't mad

But I don't wanna go on with you like that

No I don't wanna go on with you like that

One more set of boots on your welcome mat

You'll just have to quit them if you want me back

`Cause I don't wanna go on with you like that

Oh if you wanna spread it around sister that's just fine

But I don't want no second hand feeding me lines

If you wanna hold someone in the middle of the night

Call out the guards, turn out the light

Penn Libraries call number: LatC C4855 Ek17 1632

All images from this book

Ink Test Tree: Diamine Saddle Brown on Stillman & Birn, Zeta paper

While cleaning my storage unit, this weekend, I found my first drawing to ever win an art contest. Apparently I drew it in the second grade (sometime around '76 or '77). Tonight, I thought it'd be fun to redraw it in a similar style.