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 by aping M.Marjoram and, as you will later see, I take inspiration from many other sources.

Watercolour and ink on paper

Adding to my Long Beach homes collection I have searched high and low for the perfect bungalow and I think I've made the right choice just about done with the foreground still plenty of hours to go till completion

Pastel & ink

swimming with a suitcase #inkedwithabrush #septober #inkdrawings #robottod #comicbookpanels

In 2014 I am going to continue to work on procrastinating less....in particular with my art.

I had thought that after leaving the painting exchange project to the last minute during the summer, I'd have learned my lesson. Clearly I need to work harder since this must be in the post next week.

I wrote the story (poem?) months ago. I'd sized Stillman and Birn paper to replace the relatively thin pages in the provided journal in October and....I still didn't get to it until this week.

Which meant I didn't use the new paper...because now I was going to be pressed for time just to get any of the drawings done.

*head desk* .....

I'm not going to make a single excuse. I know where my headspace was during all this and the lack of any other artwork was a direct result me not having completed this project. Obligations are my bane.

Now I have (just a bit of tweaking yet) got it done and I can get on with the backlog of those creative things I actually want to do, that are scratching at my imagination.

Watercolour and ink on paper

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 by aping M.Marjoram and, as you will later see, I take inspiration from many other sources.

#282 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: continue testing the Zeta paper

Result: cat collage

Materials: Pelikan watercolours & Sakura Micron 005 pen on Canson Montval watercolor paper, with Canson Mi-Teintes pastel paper bits of an old encyclopedia in a Stillman & Birn Zeta series sketchbook

Location: Home

Note:...really just an excuse to make a mess of a page with layers glued to the 180lb stock. Result is no warping of the paper.... :)

Ink drawing on watercolor paper

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 by aping M.Marjoram and, as you will later see, I take inspiration from many other sources.

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012

Gerry Rafferty Songs Illustrated

NIGHT OWL

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Get It Right Next Time

Music & lyrics by Gerry Rafferty 1979

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Out on the street I was talkin’ to a man

He said "there’s so much of this life of mine that I don’t understand"

You shouldn’t worry yes that ain’t no crime

Cause if you get it wrong you’ll get it right next time (next time).

You need direction, yeah you need a name

When you’re standing in the crossroads every highway looks the same

After a while you can recognize the signs

So if you get it wrong you’ll get it right next time (next time).

Life is a liar yeah life is a cheat

It’ll lead you on and pull the ground from underneath your feet

No use complainin’, don’t you worry, don’t you whine

Cause if you get it wrong you’ll get it right next time (next time).

You gotta grow, you gotta learn by your mistakes

You gotta die a little everyday just to try to stay awake

When you believe there’s no mountain you can climb

And if you get it wrong you’ll get it right next time (next time).

Next time, hmmmmm

Close-up detail of ink drawing from series Congress of Oddities: Prodigies

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Leon Russell Songs Illustrated

CARNY

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This Masquerade

Music & lyrics by Leon Russell 1976

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Are we really happy

With this lonely game we play?

Looking for words to say

Searching but not finding

Understanding anywhere

We're lost in this masquerade

Both afraid to say

We're just to far away

From being close together

From the start

We tried to talk it over

But the words got in the way

We're lost inside

This lonely game we play

Thoughts of weeping

Disappear every time

I see your eyes

No matter how hard I try

To understand the reasons

That we carry on this way

We're lost in a masquerade

We could just start over

But it's oh so, hard to do

When you're lost in a masquerade

WV1303

2008

Ink on Steinbach paper

Old76 Music-inspired DArt 2014

"Little darling, I feel that the ice is slowly melting

Little darling, it seems like years since it's been clear

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun,

And I say it's all right

It's all right..."

("Here Comes the Sun", The Beatles/George Harrison 1969)

WV1334

2009

AZ

"Every time we come close the answer's always the same..."

Ink on $teinbach paper

WV1620

2010

Hope for the future, Paul?

Ink on $teinbach paper

...when using a dip nib for writing this ink is dark khaki green shade

#349 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: A detail of a sweater in an old Merche Grosso photo stream

Result: Creature comforts

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

Location: home

Note: It's cold and wet outside....one just wants to snuggle up with their socks, sweater and cats. :3

Thank-you to Bureau Direct for this sample :)

Inktober 2017 day 28

Superstition Mountains, Apache Junction, AZ

#224 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Been thinking of skeletons (human & fish) lately

Result: Fishbones

Materials: Faber-Castell PITT artist pen white 101 in KURO F2 Artetje black paper sketchbook

Location: Home

Note: This was simply a quick attempt working in white on black. The sketchbook I picked up in Japan 8 years ago but I don't know the quality of the paper in it (fade value). I am currently reading reviews & sourcing dark papers because I want to experiment working in white ink on black or grey surfaces in the future....

The Pitt pen worked surprisingly well on the dark surface...I need to investigate their pen line further. :)

sketch with ink and brush

#345 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: I was reading about the illustrated Aratea manuscripts, in which drawings were made up of words describing them :)

Result: Squirrel

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

Location: home

Note: You can learn about these 8 -12th century manuscripts and look at them on the British Library site, here:

www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=harley_ms_647_f002v

Drawn with Karlsruhe Urban Sketchers.

#226 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: My son's ceramic project from a grade 7 art class

Result: Monocular Creature

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Platinum Carbon Fountain Pen, Sakura Micron 005, Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon series sketchbook ( 21.6 cm 27.9 cm / 8 1/2" x 11")

Location: Home

Note: ...his favorite theme in art since he could hold a crayon has been monsters. I suspect it might be genetic *cough*

Penn Libraries call number: GrC B2927 Ef1 1515