This last weekend I was in the Adega Flor de Coimbra in Lapa / Rio de Janeiro with my family to enjoy delicious sardines viceradas - typical Portuguese dish and one of the delicacies of the house which also has one of the best codfish balls of the city. This is a small sketch done on site

#329 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: looking forward to going home

Result: Day 24

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

Location: Glasgow International Airport, Scotland

Note:....had time to kill once we were checked in. Best thing was to get the drawing out of the way before I was shoved back into the flying sardine can. ;)

...and yes. I am no longer able to give a fig about cropping pages. Too tired. Too many things to do.

Inktober 2017 day 28

Mermaids ~ sipping their half seacalf lattes with foam, at newest coffee outcrop

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Elton John Songs Illustrated

THE ONE

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Understanding Women

Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1992

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Rolling over trying to sleep

And understanding women

Thinking of you out there somewhere

Looking for a new beginning

Just let me be the final word

In the book we haven't written

I won't be another page

In understanding women

I could drive to Mexico

On understanding women

Throw myself against the waves

And answer up to heaven

How come her heart's so stubborn

And what's so wrong with giving

Ask the big sky talking

About understanding women

And I'm not just anyone who ever stood outside your door

And I'm not any man you've ever known before

Don't judge this picture by the frame

Every man is not the same

Some men reach beyond the pain

Of understanding women

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.

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WV1686

2011

"And there's no way out, no road home

I'm lost in doubt and I'm all alone

The time has come

When love is done

Hearts have finally turned to stone..."

(HEARTS HAVE TURNED TO STONE -Leon Russel lyrics, with Elton John THE UNION)

Ink/gouache on $teinbach paper

WV1778/2013

Ink painting on Steinbach paper

Getting to know other thought contents and art forms, in there lies the Eastern philosophy of a petrified smile of a Buddha statue...

Printmaking+CatSkull+Watercolor+Monotype+InkDrawing

"Marie, je veux nager, encore une fois avec toi!"

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Arno Songs Illustrated

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MARIE TU M'AS

by Arno

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Elle a tout vu, elle a tout vécu

Elle a tout bu, elle a tout vu

Elle est toute seule avec son karma

Le mal devient abstrat

Marie rumba

Marie samba

Marie mambo

Marie tu m'as

Marie tu m'as

Marie, Marie, elle n'est plus là

Elle est partie avec un rasta

Le plaisir c'est ça

Marie rumba

Marie samba

Marie mambo

Marie tu m'as

Marie tu m'as

La douleur c'est ça

Le mal devient abstrat

Marie rumba

Marie samba

Marie mambo

Marie tu m'as

Marie tu m'as

Oh Marie, Marie

Marie tu m'as

Read more: www.muzikum.eu/nl/123-13-2762/arno/marie_tu_mas-songtekst...

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2014

A drawing of Gregory Peck as the one and only "Captain Ahab".

"Hey Ahab can you tell me where

I can catch a ride out of here

Hey Ahab hoist that sail

You've gotta stand up straight

When you ride that whale."

(lyrics Bernie Taupin, THE UNION 2010)

Printmaking+Watercolor+Monotype+InkDrawing+HandmadePaper

ink drawing

WV1765

2012

B

"Just a gentle voice on the stereo

Now she's a working girl who loves the Lord..."

Ink & gouache on $teinbach paper

WV996

2006

What happened here as the NYC sunset disappeared...

Ink on Steinbach 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 by aping M.Marjoram and, as you will later see, I take inspiration from many other sources.

.....this is an incredibly rich green ink. I am looking forward to getting it into a pen.

#318 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Dublin

Result: Day 12

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: ...yes...we drank Guinness in the stands too.

I am making a little book of zentangle-patterns.

#112 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: I was looking at pictures taken in Kyoto & reminded how heavy Heian Court robes were when I tried them on.

Result: Kimono doodle

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Platinum Carbon Fountain Pen, Staedtler Karat Aquarell pencils in a Stillman & Birn Alpha series sketchbook ( 21.6 cm 27.9 cm / 8 1/2" x 11")

Location: Home

Note: Happily playing in the Stillman & Birn Alpha sketchbook, which, holds up wonderfully to light washes, as I explore how the Platinum carbon ink handles this paper & reacts with (under & over) other materials. All I could think of, besides loving this paper, is the need to invest in some superior Faber-Castell watercolour pencils...

#227 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: I wanted to draw a pink elephant

Result: Elephantasy

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: Sometimes you sit down to draw and these things happen....

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Mushroom House Concept Designs for the Hedgezilla Illustration.

Copyright 2009: Manda Tarr

www.mandatarr.blogspot.com

One of 12 ink drawings that are part of my show Sketchbook: Chapter Two at Blue Gallery in Kansas City.

ink on paper

8x10 inches, 2011

*SOLD*

..it's really had to describe this grey ink other than saying it's like J Herbin's Stormy Grey without the gold flecks. I like this grey a lot. Very warm.

Daily Drawing #356 of 365

Inspiration: my computer died

Result: Farewell my friend

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Platinum Carbon fountain pen in a Stillman and Birn, Epsilon sketchbook

Location: home

Notes: I knew the end was coming, and it's never convenient...but it is what it is and one must make do and continue on.

I wandered all over to town to capture this block of flats with as much of it’s full height as possible.

Watercolour and ink on paper

WV1524A

2010

AZ

"Try to see it my way,

Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong...."

(The Beatles)

Ink and acrylic on paper

Old76 Music-inspired DArt 2015

And you were just a face in the crowd...

WV1735

2011

Just like a drop of strange rain

Ink on $teinbach paper