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#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. *>.<!
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
Work in progress. I'm just finishing up the bottom leaf and will add tiny circles to the upper leaf as well, I think...
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.
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012
The Girl With The Butterfly Tattoo somewhere on the road to Mandalay.
"There's nothing left for you to give
The truth is all that you're left with
Twenty paces then at dawn
We will die and be reborn"
(A Robbie Williams song)
WV1021
2007
"J’aime pas les filles faciles
J’aime pas les difficiles
J’aime les battements des cils des filles du Brésil
Qui mettent en péril
Du bout de leur nombril
Les saints évangiles
Des filles de mon quartier"
(Lyrics by Arno)
Ink on Steinbach paper
Yes. You've seen this before. These are taken after Picasso.
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.
Japanese landscapes in the summer mist always remind me to ink drawings (sumi-e)... finally I painted one - with my camera and my computer...
;-)
#268 of 365 Daily Drawings
Inspiration: 25th Wedding Anniversary
Result: The two of us
Materials: Sakura Micron 005 & Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon series sketchbook
Location: Home
Note: Wow... quarter century gone in a blink of the eye! Best 25 years of my life :3
Typical evening sees Captain Remote Control, bouncing between sporting events and myself with a book or newspaper on my tablet......unless his team is losing and it's time for a dvd or one of 'our' series. One thing I've taken away from getting married during the NBA playoffs....ones' wedding anniversary will ALWAYS be ...during the NBA playoffs :D
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.
WV1759
2012
B
"Going down in Durban deep
Going down down down down down
There's no mercy in my sleep
I just hear that drill and hammer
I feel the killing heat
Going two miles down to the heart
Of Durban deep..."
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin 1989)
Ink and gouache on $teinbach paper
#287 of 365 Daily Drawings
Inspiration: 4 nights of poor sleep while on the road
Result: Even the counting sheep fell asleep on the job.
Materials:Kuretake No. 13, Fountain Brush Pen in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon series sketchbook
Location: Home
Note: This is possibly the loosest drawing you have ever seen from me as I was too exhausted to fuss. I am the first to admit that this is probably a good thing....(being loose with my pen not exhausted)
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.
WV1019/2007
Ink en pastel op Steinbach paper
FLANDERS UP!
"Where there is mussel and fries
Where there is chicken on a spit
Where the church is in the middle
Where the purple heather blooms
And money flows in black
Where people hardly speak Dutch
Where a diploma is of no use
And the king has no child
Where the sparkling wine queen parades
Where the people are cheerful
And a fist is without strength
Where people fail and explain at the bar
Flanders above
Where one can still praise the Lord
Where people are important
And bellies are large
Flanders outside
Where the birds sing
Flanders my country
At the North Sea beach... etc..."
VLAANDEREN BOVEN (FLANDERS UP) A song of Raymond van het Groenewoud, 1978 (translated)