Inktober 2017 day 12

Thank-you to Bureau Direct for this sample :)

Done with Prismacolor markers

Penn Libraries call number: IC5 Ar432 516o 1756 Folio

All images from this book

#120 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Dr. Who

Result: Bow Ties are Cool!

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Copic MultiLiner SP 0.03 in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon series sketchbook ( 21.6 cm 27.9 cm / 8 1/2" x 11")

Location: Home

Note: My 12 year old son and I have been watching a lot of Dr. Who lately and it's become a running joke around the house to just randomly proclaim that 'bow ties are cool!' I'm sure the owl Doctor has been done a bazillion times before but I just had to get it out of my system :)

makes a great subject to draw. Lots of character, lines and interesting wrinkles and sags.

a small section of the Wall of Trees

My lovely muse today is Merlin, based on a photograph by Martin Usborne. Drawn with Platinum Carbon black and Kalligraphie Scriptorium's Oak Gall inks.

...working the permanent inks and having little nervous breakdowns daily, but getting braver.

Watercolour and ink on paper

Day 23 of 31 is for

Alpurrto Santos-Dumont and the documented flight of the first 'heavier-than-air' craft, the 14-bis in 1906

AND...before you argue it was the Wright Brothers, consider please that this plane took off 'under it's own power'...without the use of launching rails or catapults.

Ink and Watercolour

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Elton John Songs Illustrated

VICTIM OF LOVE

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Born Bad

Music & lyrics by Elton John & Pete Bellotte 1979

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You've been crying

And there ain't no use denying

It was me

Who put you through this misery

And I'd like to say I'm sorry

But I can't, no I can't

Nothing's gonna change me

Baby, that's the way I am

I was born bad

Always been the same, yes I was born bad

Never gonna change 'cause I was born bad

Only me to blame 'cause I was born bad

Yes I was born bad

Always been my habit, I was born bad

Just can't seem to help it, I was born bad

Always gonna happen, I was born bad

'Cause I was born bad

I mistreat you

And you know I always cheat you

But that's me

And that's the it's always been

And I'd like to say I'm sorry

But I can't, no I can't

Nothing's gonna change me

Baby, that's the way I am

Watercolour and ink on paper

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

The Beatles Songs Illustrated

... It was 50 years ago that the Beatles released their first album.

PLEASE PLEASE ME

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Do You Want To Know A Secret?

Music & lyrics by The Beatles, Lennon-McCartney

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You'll never know how much I really love you.

You'll never know how much I really care.

Listen,

Do you want to know a secret,

Do you promise not to tell, whoa oh, oh.

Closer,

Let me whisper in your ear,

Say the words you long to hear,

I'm in love with you.

Listen,

Do you want to know a secret,

Do you promise not to tell, whoa oh, oh.

Closer,

Let me whisper in your ear,

Say the words you long to hear,

I'm in love with you.

I've known the secret for a week or two,

Nobody knows, just we two.

Listen,

Do you want to know a secret,

Do you promise not to tell, whoa oh, oh.

Closer,

Let me whisper in your ear,

Say the words you long to hear,

I'm in love with you.

WV1148

2008

AZ

Imaginary EJ Jacket

Coloured pencil and ink on $teinbach paper

Hitching Post, Apache Junction, AZ

Daily Drawing #365 of 365

Inspiration: last day of my drawing project

Result: Okay...what should I do next?

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

Location: home

Notes: A little over a year ago I took all my creative insecurities, locked them in a closet and sat down at my desk to draw. Instead of making excuses of why I could not, I was going to develop a new habit. One that saw me put pen and/or brush and pencil to paper every day, and I would do this for an entire year to produce 365 daily drawings.

I am untrained in both technique and use of the materials.

The end products would vary in quality when I made mistakes, was rushed, bored or tired, I'd learned to live with and learn from it, after all, there is no editing with ink, watercolour and pencil crayon.

It has been a tremendously positive experience as friends, family and strangers have encouraged me to reach my goal and I thank you all for that.

I have grown more confident in many areas and hopefully my skills with these tools will continue to improve as I start new projects as this one ends.

...and this one must. Forcing myself to conceive and create a single drawing every day is holding me back from more involved work which I am eager to explore. Project 365 has achieved its most important goal; for the first time in 48 years ,when someone asks me if I am an artist... I respond, yes.

This is one of pieces that I exhibited in the 2013 RCA Secret Postcard Exhibition.

#337 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: 28 days to go

Result: one piece at a time

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

Location: home

Note: Last page of the book so scanning across the spine was problematic and not one I was willing to fuss over today as the scanner and I were not seeing eye to eye and I have other things to do dash off to. <.<

WV1302

2008

1302 - Somewhere in Flanders fields...

Ink on $teinbach paper

Penn Libraries call number: IC5 R4744 551c

All images from this book

WV1659

2010

"Are we really happy with

This lonely game we play

Looking for the right words to say

Searching but not finding

Understanding anyway

We're lost in this masquerade..."

(Leon Russell lyrics)

Coloured pencil and ink on $teinbach paper

More drawings for 20202020. #20202020 #itwillallhurt #thewrenchies #freehanddrawing #linedrawings #inkdrawings #booksketches #booksketch #pendrawings #theoftenwrong #robottod #lineartwork #inkart #inkartwork

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, O.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.

Gel pen on newsprint

WV801

2005

… or: mantis religiosa, still inspired by pan's labyrinth … . .

Alternative Facts no.2 ~ the NRA pushing The Hearing Protection Act: in which they want to make silencers easily and widely available to protect the ears of shooters. Apparently regular ear protection gets in the way of the fun. Police organizations are not a fan of silencers....nor would anyone caught in a random mass shooting...hard to duck or run when you think it's just a car backfiring in the distance. On the other hand, the use of headphones on a regular basis, at a level higher than 60db does the same damage as repeated shooting of a gun without protective gear. Statistically in the US, 1 in 5 teens can’t hear rustles or whispers. Personally it just strikes me as a money grab...and a dangerous one at that.

WV1643

2010

A portrait of Ozark Henry

Coloured pencil and ink on $teinbach paper

Watercolour and ink on paper