Ink self portrait on recycled paper

The Goulet Pen Company's: InkDrop March 2015

Inks: De Atramentis ~ Pigeon Blue / Diamine ~ Woodland Green / Noodler's ~ Bad Blue Heron & Purple Martin / Iroshizuku ~ Ku-Jaku.... on Stillman & Birn, Zeta paper

Theme for this month's colours is: Birds of a Feather

#334 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Screaming Quads

Result: If I wanted to know what I look like when I walk...I'd ask you.

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

Location: home

Note: I am not even going to talk about it.....

WV1462

2009

AZ

"Oh, it doesn't matter what they say in the papers

'Cause it's always been the same old scene!"

(Billy Joel Songs)

Ink and gouache 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.

Commission work for Stefanie

Size/ 5"X6"

Medium/ Ink, Origami

Date/ December, 2012

Here is my blog post about this piece!

julieokahara.blogspot.com/2013/01/elephant.html

Pen and ink on acetate over cut paper.

#342 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: ...not really sure. Just wanted to draw animal fur

Result: Flying squirrel

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

Location: home

Note: *twitch*...it's kind of a nightmare of mine.

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.

My brother has illustration skills that you don't even know about.

This Treo snapshot hardly does justice to the intricate, amazing ink drawings by Alessio, the grip on the short film Brent was in.

WV1676

2010

Lennon-McCartney Songs...

Ink and gouache on $teinbach

#308 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Barcelona

Result: Day 2

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. :)

Ink self portrait on recycled paper

WV1571

2010

Radio Gaga.3

Ink and gouache on $teinbach paper

Ink self portrait on recycled paper

WV1598

2010

"Lonely boy, you are the one

Lonely boy, your chance has come

Destiny gonna put you to the test

Face the music and disregard the rest..."

(Elton John/Gary Osborne, 1982)

Ink on $teinbach paper

sleeping on the subway

Dip nib pen with Platinum Carbon black on Stillman&Birn Zeta paper

Ink self portrait on recycled paper

.....'Are we there yeti?' ;)

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.

Penn Libraries call number: GrC Ar466.22 1619 copy 2

All images from this book

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.