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.

American Bittersweet

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

#69 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: What if 007, Q & M were canines...

Result: MI-K9

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

Location: At home

Note: Yeah more Skyfall inspired doodling....*cough*....this time thinking what breeds would Bond, Q and M be if the were dogs.

The answer...at least using my pretzel logic are the following ~ Scottish Deerhound/007 (big, loyal gun dog and...er ...Scottish), Border Collie/Q (always the smartest pup in the class...THE genius of the dog world) and British Bulldog/M (no explanation necessary) ~ but most important....ALL are native to the U.K... in case you were wondering.

inkdrawing

Thank-you to Bureau Direct for this sample :)

Done with Prismacolor markers

Inktober 2017 day 12

Penn Libraries call number: IC5 Ar432 516o 1756 Folio

All images from this book

#201 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Freezing Rain

Result: Not impressed by Mother Nature

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Sakura Micron in a Moleskine Plain notebook

Location: home (waiting to leave before my trip was cancelled)

Note: I was supposed to go out of town this weekend but Mother Nature had other ideas and sent freezing rain to glaze my world like a giant ice encrusted donut. Power (and heat) just came back on after 12 hours.....and I am grateful it was ONLY 12 hours. I spent most of the day on the couch with blankets, cats and a book.

The book in case you were wondering: Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us (a must read in my opinion)

michaelmossbooks.com/books/salt-sugar-fat/

#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 :)

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

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

#195 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Lots of squirrels in the yard today

Result: Bubblesqueak

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:...the rodent militia has been busy dashing about garden & deck, stuffing their faces with seeds & entertaining my cats....so I was inspired to draw a squirrel. I hesitated when committing to filling in the figure with shapes instead of fur...those first few circles being the hardest...but once you start you just gotta go for broke now that you've laid some ink. Good self challenge.

#76 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Joulupukki / Yule Goat

Result: naughty goat

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

Location: At home

Note: The word for Santa Claus in Finnish is Joulupukki/Yule Goat and a straw goat is a traditional symbol of this festive season. This is a nod and a wink to family in Finland :)

....and I wanted to draw a cute goat. Maaaaaa.

WV1148

2008

AZ

Imaginary EJ Jacket

Coloured pencil and ink on $teinbach paper

Hitching Post, Apache Junction, AZ

INKtober Day 24 ~ Sarah Josepha Hale, author of the Purrsery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb"...just a nibble...and it was really tasty.

Basic Drawing Study

Cow skull

black ball point pen on drawing paper

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

Old76 Music-inspired 2013

Neil Diamond Songs Illustrated

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SWEET CAROLINE

Music & lyrics by Neil Diamond 1969

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Where it began

I can't begin to knowin'

But then I know it's growin' strong

Was in the spring

And spring became a summer

Who'd have believed you'd come along

Hands, touchin' hands

Reachin' out

Touchin' me

Touchin' you

Sweet Caroline

Good times never seemed so good

I've been inclined

To believe they never would

But now I

Look at the night

And it don't seem so lonely

We fill it up with only two

And when I hurt

Hurtin' runs off my shoulders

How can I hurt when holdin' you

Warm, touchin' warm

Reachin' out

Touchin' me

Touchin' you

Sweet Caroline

Good times never seemed so good

I've been inclined

To believe they never would

Oh,Lord, no

Sweet Caroline

Good times never seemed so good

Sweet Caroline

I believed they never could

Sweet Caroline

Another colour in the November 2015 Inkdrop from Goulet Pens. This one breaks in a really interesting fashion. Reminds me those space energy entities of the old Star Trek episodes. :)

Watercolour and ink on paper

#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

WV801

2005