Watercolour and ink on paper

I thought I was going to use watercolors on this , but I think it is done.

créations féériques et mandalas

Inktober 2017 day 20.

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.

on a book page from Germany

it's old and thin, so mounted on a mat board

Sketch of Brenda Halloran, Mayor of Waterloo

This week’s Sketchbook Project challenge is: "to share a little piece of home and draw a portrait of your town’s mayor.”

www.sketchbookproject.com/projects/challenge

Materials: Diamine ink (Steel blue) with a dip pen on Stillman & Birn, Epsilon paper

oil refinery art

WV1830/2024

Themes of a non-existent series about football fans...

#285 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: My husband took our son to a gym to work on his shooting skills the day prior to the tournament

Result: Hoop mice

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

Location: YMCA in Franklin Park PA

Note: Gorgeous facilities at this YMCA. I had time to draw in the front lobby while the boys took to the court for some practice.

#299 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen

Result: Hoodies don't = Hoodlum

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Platinum Carbon Fountain Pen in a Stillman & Birn Zeta series sketchbook

Location: Home

Note: Saying a hoodie is 'the uniform' of a criminal is akin to assuming a suit & tie are the uniform of corporate felons.

Pastel & ink

Size/ 11"X14"

Medium/ Ink, Scrap Book Paper

Date/ May 2012

Ink and watercolor on paper

Watercolour and ink on paper

Ink on paper

1st sketch of ny drawing revival

Watercolour and ink on paper

inkdrawing

#73 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: My daughter grading first year university papers/exams dealing with spelling errors

Result: Philosoraptor eating dinosour candies

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

Location: At home

Note: Dedicated to all university T.A.s currently marking papers & exams and the atrocious spelling they must endure from first year students. My intentions were to draw something completely different today but that all went sideways when I had a discussion with my eldest about idiocy she and the other MA students have to deal with as they grade work of other students. It is really funny until you think about it and then you wish to weep about the state of the educational system....

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.

#249 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Benny Goodman's Birthday

Result: Swing Kitty

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: Feeling a bit more on the bounce today.... listening to Sing Sing Sing.

youtu.be/vac7kTcyqI4

#292 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Internet meme

Result: Purple Weight lifting Rabbit

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

Location: Home

Note: This was the answer to a meme question my crossfit loving daughter got this morning:

Color of shirt you are wearing: Purple

Favorite activity: weight lifting

First animal that comes to mind: Rabbit

...it was too cute not to draw.

#90 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Christmas traditions from Finland

Result: Sheaves of oats being given to birds for Christmas

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Platinum Carbon Desk fountain pen / carbon ink, in a Moleskine plain journal Size: 7.5 x 9.75 inches (19 x 25 cm)

Location: Home

Notes: One of the things my mother would do was feed the birds at Christmas by tying stalks of grain to a stick and planting it in the snow. This is a tradition that she brought with her from Finland and I remember gathering grain from the fields & tying them in bundles to hanging to dry in the barn, so they would be nicely shaped and ready for winter.

Red-twig dogwood

Size/ 5"X6"

Medium/ Ink, Origami

Date/ February, 2010

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.

There were too many colours for me to choose which one to use in the sketch.

painting by Jim Cliff

Study sketch

Watercolour and ink on paper

inkdrawing with colors

It occured to me that this shade of purple should look good with this particular green ink.... and I'd say that it does work rather well with it :)

Materials: Diamine Meadow & Majestic Purple + R&K Alt-Goldgrun inks on Stillman & Birn, Zeta paper

"THE acts of Him Whom God shall make manifest

are like unto the sun, while the works of men,

provided they conform to the good-pleasure of God,

resemble the stars or the moon...

Thus, should the followers of the Bayan

observe the precepts of Him Whom God

shall make manifest at the time of His appearance,

and regard themselves

and their own works as stars exposed to the light of the sun,

then they will have gathered the fruits of their existence;

otherwise the title of 'starship' will not apply to them.

Rather it will apply to such as truly believe in Him,

to those who pale into insignificance in the day-time

and gleam forth with light in the night season."

Selections from the Writings of the Báb

just a doodle really. i like the contrast of the red ink, with the linear black lines of the fox.

Red & Black ink

Fine liner

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pen drawing of quill and inkwell