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Biro and crayon on shiny paper.

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2014

Leon Russel/Elton John Songs Illustrated

THE UNION

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Hearts Have Turned To Stone

Music & lyrics by Leon Russell & Elton John 2010

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I'm out here in the darkness

I hear the howling wind

Sometimes I sit and wonder

Will I ever see love again

Looking for an answer

Not an easy thing to find

Out here in the wilderness

With questions on my mind

  

Now the sun is rising higher in the sky

The morning light is crawling

From the darkness of the night

The raindrops keep on falling

There is no light of day

The sadness deep inside me

Doesn't seem to go away

 

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

  

No more bright tomorrow, only sad today

My heart is filled with sorrow

The pain won't go away

Try to keep from crying

All night long and through the day

Lost and all alone

Hearts have finally turned to stone

  

No more bright tomorrow, only sad today

My heart is filled with sorrow

The pain won't go away

Just trying to keep from crying

All night long and through the day

Lost and all alone

Hearts have finally turned to stone

Inspiration: Washed the floors today...and....the cats do not particularly like when I do this thing.

 

Materials: platinum carbon fountain pen on Stillman & Birn, epsilon paper.

 

Notes: My year project is done so I an finished counting the drawings. Now they will appear at random, some mere scribbles while others are more involved pieces. While materials are liable to change from day to day, the subject matter will remain driven by fits of personal whimsy.

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Elton John Songs Illustrated

21 AT 33

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Take Me Back

Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1980

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If you want my loving take me back

If you miss my touch little girl take me back

When the dreams you lean on are beginning to crack

Open up your heart little girl and take me back

  

If you want my loving then take me back

If you're on your own little girl take me back

When the nights grow longer turning blacker than black

Open up your heart little girl and take me back

  

Playing a part you're well prepared for, there you stand

With all I ever cared for in your hand

I'm waiting all the time

For some kind of sign from you

And I'll go on and on this way

Waiting for the day

When I will hear you say

You'll take me back

  

If you want my loving well take me back

If you're feeling down little girl

Then you'll take me back

When you look around you for the love that you lack

Open up your heart little girl

You got my heart little girl

Make a start little girl

And say you'll take me back

Take me back

....playing with this multi-hued ink by sketching Japanese Bobtail cats

These are some samples of the sketches I've been doing at the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

 

Aloha! Just met someone in Hollywood named Jean...

....Trump is quoted as saying; "...you look at what's happeing last night in Sweden".....much to the perplextion and vexation of the Swedes, who have NO IDEA what he is talking about. It's like the The Böwling Grön Massacre all over again. This is my guess. ;)

Watercolour and ink on paper

  

#310 of 365 Daily Drawings

 

Inspiration: Barcelona

 

Result: Day 4

 

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

 

Location: apartment in Barcelona

 

Note: The following drawings are reflections of my trip to Spain, Dublin and Scotland. It's a combination sketchbook / journal. Not all of the pages contain writing ....those are yet to be filled in because while I did make a point of doing a drawing every day I really didn't have time to also fill in the blanks with words...those are to come. I just needed to get these posted so I could get my daily drawings back on track. :)

 

WV1692

2011

 

Ink/Mixed media on $teinbach paper

WV1685

2011

 

"There's no time for waiting

No future to see

Inside the next moment

Nothing might be

The answer's not certain

No time to decide

Is this the last curtain

There's no place to hide..."

 

(Leon Russell, Elton John, THE UNION)

 

Ink on $teinbach paper

 

Fun morning with the Brisbane Urban Sketchers at South Bank. I really love drawing the Moreton Bay Fig Tree trunks.. Can you find the water dragon?

a bit of wall paper placed on an ink drawn tree with scrap book paper as leaves.

WV1129

2008

Coloured pencil and ink on $teinbach paper

 

"...You can't shoot down the moon

Some things never change

We can build a bridge between us

But the empty space remains

 

Just as long as you're around

We live on borrowed time

I'll put my money where my mouth is

You're guilty at the scene of the crime

 

I never say more than I need

The mystery runs deep

The dangers buried below

The secrets that you keep"

 

SHOOT DOWN THE MOON - Elton John, 1985;

#75 of 365 Daily Drawings

 

Inspiration: My recent birthday

 

Result: Infinity Dragon

 

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Micron 005 & 02 pens, in a Moleskine plain journal

 

Location: At home

 

Note: I have always been associated with dragons. I don't mean that I think I am one or feel an affinity for them, rather that throughout my life people have gifted me with dragon totems and nicknames. Born in the Year of the Dragon helps explain how it started, but not why it has persisted for decades. After a while it just became such a strong part of my identity that I now sport a dragon tattoo.

 

As a birthday card to myself I decided to draw one, curled in the symbol of infinity, which also happens to be the shape that my family has traditionally baked for birthdays a sweet bread made with saffron, raisins, orange peel and almonds instead of a cake with candles. :)

Cuando miro al cielo veo las calles de mi ciudad

  

#309 of 365 Daily Drawings

 

Inspiration: Barcelona

 

Result: Day 3

 

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

 

Location: apartment in Barcelona

 

Note: The following drawings are reflections of my trip to Spain, Dublin and Scotland. It's a combination sketchbook / journal. Not all of the pages contain writing ....those are yet to be filled in because while I did make a point of doing a drawing every day I really didn't have time to also fill in the blanks with words...those are to come. I just needed to get these posted so I could get my daily drawings back on track. :)

 

WV1356

2009

AZ

 

Red moves in The Blue ...

 

Ink on $teinbach paper

 

Inktober #10 of 31

 

Inspiration: ... Thinking of fairy tales...

 

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Platinum Carbon Fountain Pen, Kuretake No. 13 Fountain Brush Pen & Faber-castell in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon series sketchbook

Location: Home

 

Note: just messing around...if I get my chores done today then I might get at those cats that are piling up.

Watercolour and ink on paper

ink drawing for second Weye design. Shameless Weye plug www.weyemusic.com

Ink drawing on plastic bottle

....I don't even know what to make of this colour. Scanning it. Photographing it.....nope. Not going to get anywhere near the weirdness in real life. Red? Orange? Touch of neon peach? It breaks with water to paler but even more messed up version of what it scans. I have no idea....aside from the fact that it is not to my tastes.

What I'm working on today. I'll explain it once I get the drawing finished.

I am making a little book of zentangle-patterns.

WV1311

2009

AZ

 

A perfect day in LA for EJ fans, 25.10.75...

 

Ink on $teinbach paper

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