Ink self portrait on recycled paper

I asked my favorite comic book artist of all time, Paul Gulacy, if I could commission him to do an original sketch of "Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu", which had a 10 year run starting in the early 70s. Rumor is that Marvel Comics may do a movie based on my favorite non super-human hero!

Ink self portrait on recycled paper

Sometimes you just have to draw and I love a brush full of ink.

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Paul McCartney Songs Illustrated

BAND ON THE RUN

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Jet

Music & lyrics by Wings & Paul McCartney 1973

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Jet! I can almost remember their funny faces

That time you told me that

You were going to be marrying soon.

And jet, I thought the only

Lonely place was on the moon.

Jet! Jet!

Jet! Was your father as bold as a sergeant major?

How come he told you that

You were hardly old enough yet?

And jet, I thought the major

Was a lady suffragette.

Jet! Jet!

Ah, matter, want jet to always love me?

Ah, matter, want jet to always love me?

Ah, matter, much later.

Jet! With the wind in your hair of a thousand laces.

Climb on the back and we'll

Go for a ride in the sky.

And jet, I thought the major

Was a lady suffragette.

Jet! Jet!

#343 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Lack of cat +rats + fleas = plague + plague doctor

Result: Feline Plague Doctor

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Sakura Micron 005 in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon series sketchbook

Location: home

Note: This idea had popped into my head last winter while talking about Plague Doctors of the Black Death with my best friend ...and was on my list of to dos as I work on the concept for a larger piece in the future

#177 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Medical use of masks for protection (bubonic plague & WWll)

Result: Facing Death

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Platinum Carbon Fountain Pen in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon series sketchbook ( 21.6 cm 27.9 cm / 8 1/2” x 11”)

Location: Home

Note: It's very hard to explain my thought process about this one...aside from looking at pictures from 1940 England of nurses practicing drills for gas attacks + reading of the W.H.O.'s public worrying over the development of drug resistant strains of swine flu (you might know it as H1N1) + the growing number of dead pigs being hauled out of the Shanghai River (over 14,000 last time I checked).. Suddenly I am thinking plague doctors, pandemics and all kinds of nightmarish stuff. <.<

**On a happier note I just finished another sketchbook! YAY! :)

One of my personal favourites

Apache Junction, AZ

#253 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: News article about Atlantic puffins colonies in peril

Result: Atlantic Puffin

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: Reading about the Atlantic puffin populations in peril as fish stocks shift :(

www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/06/02/puffin-popula...

WV1352

2009

AZ

"I guess you're Louis Vouitton, and I'm just Tucson

I can't change my habits, I guess that's what counts

But he who rides the tiger, never dismounts..."

(Bernie Taupin lyrics 1980)

Ink on $teinbach paper

WV1651

2010

Sleeping with the past

Ink and gouache on $teinbach paper

Watercolour and ink on paper

I am making a little book of zentangle-patterns.

WV1545

2010

Lady Madonna on a Saturday Night.

Ink and gouache on $teinbach paper

WV1480

2009

AZ

"Well, it's plain to see

She can pull the wool over little old me

Your sister can't twist but she can rock and roll

Your sister can't twist but she got more soul than me!"

(Elton John/Bernie Taupin 1973 GYBR)

Ink and coloured pencil on $teinbach paper

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.

Penn Libraries call number: AC7 P7728 774k

All images from this book

Illustration drawn with drawing ink.

It expresses it by "Techniques of drawing in lines and the sketch, etc.".

"Fairy tale, fantasy, science fiction, and horror, etc." The fantastic world is drawn.

Free Business illustration

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This site has published a free illustrations "Business, Society, Health care, Seasonal, Food and other" of.

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WV1293

2008

Beware of the black moon rising

Ink on $teinbach paper

Penn Libraries call number: AC7 P7728 774k

All images from this book

Cezar Chavez from Delano California worked for the equal rights and dignity of the farm workers. Cezar worked in the fields being sprayed with pestcides and no rights or protections for the individual. He was a hero for the immigrant and American citizens who worked in the fields. He wanted justice and protection for those who pick our food.,

#293 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Weeding the garden today

Result: Abstract Burrs

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Platinum Carbon Fountain Pen & Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon series sketchbook

Location: Home

Note: ....they are very pretty when not being extremely annoying. Did you know that burdock burrs were the inspiration for velcro fasteners? Now you do. :)

I have to say I really like the combination of the dark blue ink with gold particles. It reminds me of kimono and Japanese lacquer work :)

East Mesa, AZ

WV949/2006

Coloured pencil and ink on Steinbach paper

"We moved 6 miles from where we were yesterday..."

WV1338

2009

AZ

Respect for the Man who sailed the Seven Seas!

Colored pencil and ink on $teinbach paper

Sailor Jentle Black ink on Stillman&Birn Zeta paper

Ink self portrait on recycled paper

Inktest Tree: Pelikan Edelstein ~ Jade from The Goulet Pen Company's September 2015 Inkdrop on Stillman & Birn, Zeta paper.

In for a penny, in for a pound. I can't scan or photograph these Pelikan inks worth a darn. The Jade is a bright green with light blue undertones, so once more it won't translate...so please just enjoy the illustration and don't quote me on the shade.. <.<

#288 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: The mention of pandas while eating a blueberry Poptart

Result: Favorite things and I'm not sharing

Materials: Sakura Micron 005 in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon series sketchbook

Location: Home

Note: Yeah...I know. That totally does not make any sense but let me explain ~ I only like one kind of Poptarts, Unfrosted Blueberry.

They are something that I got to eat during the dog days of summer when I went to the cottage with my grandparents. At home they were forbidden junk food....just like the Apple Jacks cereal my grandparents indulged me in. Even as a kid I found frosted Poptarts too sweet...but oh those plain old blueberry flavored ones just made me drool.

Haven't eaten them in years. In fact, I haven't even SEEN them in Canada in decades. But I found them In Pittsburgh. Thought that like most things from my childhood they would have 'improved' the flavor and I'd bin the lot of them. Oddly enough...they taste EXACTLY as I remember. In fact...I hazard to say that they are less 'chemically' and taste BETTER!

Anyway...for me they are a taste of childhood. I'm not sharing a single one and my family is on standing orders to bring me home a box any time they travel to the US.