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

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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

WV1673

2010

"Christ you know it ain't easy,

You know how hard it can be.

The way things are going

They're going to crucify me...."

(The Beatles, John Lennon, 1969)

Ink on $teinbach paper

#254 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Asparagus season!

Result: Dinner is going to be YUM!

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: My entire family loves local asparagus. Just steamed with no dressing it up = delicious!

I will be out of town for a few days. See you Sunday! :)

Ink self portrait on recycled paper

#255 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: My parents West Highland Terriers chasing a kicked ball for exercise

Result: Soccer Girls

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Sakura Micron 005 in a Moleskine Plain notebook

Location: Kitchen table at the farm

Note: I was at my parents for a visit and the days were very busy so there wasn't much time for drawing. I was lucky to squeeze this one in before midnight and after sampling a few different scotches with my father. *>.<!

KWZI ~ Foggy Green Ink

WV1290

2008

"You'd think that people would have had enought of silly love songs.

But I look around me and I see it isn't so.

Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs.

And what's wrong with that?

I'd like to know, 'cause here I go again..."

(Paul McCartney lyrics, 1976)

Ink on $teinbach paper

Art Jim McDermott. Brush and Ink

Watercolour and ink on paper

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

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

Work in progress. I'm just finishing up the bottom leaf and will add tiny circles to the upper leaf as well, I think...

Black ink on Stillman & Birn Zeta paper

Analog digital transitions

WV1952/2024

Sparta was the principal enemy of Athens during the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC) from which it emerged victorious after the Battle of Aegospotami.