WV1948/2024

"Everybody's got a million questions

Everybody wants to know the score

What you went through

It's something you should be over now

Everybody wants to hear the secrets

That you never told a soul before

And it's not that strange

'Cause it wouldn't change what happened anyhow

But you swore to yourself a long time ago

There were some things that people never needed to know

This is one that you keep, that you bury so deep

No one can tear it out

And you can't talk about it

'Cause you're following a code of silence

You're never gonna lose the anger

You just deal with it in a different way..."

CODE OF SILENCE - Billy Joel (& Cyndi Lauper), 1986.

I'm not sure when it occurred to me. Maybe it was criticism that a working artist passed my way. I set the pens down for a month while we were in Nice and let things "sit."

The Muse visited and I started thinking of some really goofy ideas. I said to myself "stuff 'um! I'm doing something silly and I'm doing it for myself."

To explain what these were I did a title page to each drawing. As if it really explained anything, that is.

I first shared these with friends in England during our weekly Zoom calls. We had a "Show and Tell" kind of setup. It was a great way to get beyond the loneliness and to spend time with friends, even if it weren't in person.

I'm not sure when it occurred to me. Maybe it was criticism that a working artist passed my way. I set the pens down for a month while we were in Nice and let things "sit."

The Muse visited and I started thinking of some really goofy ideas. I said to myself "stuff 'um! I'm doing something silly and I'm doing it for myself."

To explain what these were I did a title page to each drawing. As if it really explained anything, that is.

I first shared these with friends in England during our weekly Zoom calls. We had a "Show and Tell" kind of setup. It was a great way to get beyond the loneliness and to spend time with friends, even if it weren't in person.

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. I "borrowed" from many different styles as I attempt to explore the medium. And with zero photography projects in the queue I might as well fill this space with something. So here goes.

#294 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: a doodle while I was on the phone, on hold.

Result: NUTS

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

Location: Home

Note: Ages ago I'd made a note for myself to draw words with squirrels...while trapped in automated answering service hell. In that context...a lot of strange ideas makes sense.

Very simple drawing today....my hands ache from weeding yesterday and gripping a pen/pencil is just not something I can do for long.

Ink drawing, 5" x 4", comes framed, available.

gabby's sketch of nicole...love this <3

Used pen and ink

I'm not sure when it occurred to me. Maybe it was criticism that a working artist passed my way. I set the pens down for a month while we were in Nice and let things "sit."

The Muse visited and I started thinking of some really goofy ideas. I said to myself "stuff 'um! I'm doing something silly and I'm doing it for myself."

To explain what these were I did a title page to each drawing. As if it really explained anything, that is.

I first shared these with friends in England during our weekly Zoom calls. We had a "Show and Tell" kind of setup. It was a great way to get beyond the loneliness and to spend time with friends, even if it weren't in person.

Penn Libraries call number: SC55 B7399 590t 1693

All images from this book

Things you should know #37: This is a pig.

#147 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Breakfast in the drawing room of Hotel Belvedere

Result: A pot of Earl Grey and book (Starship Troopers) on a Sunday morning

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Sakura Micron 005 in a Moleskine plain cache notebook

Location: Hotel Belvedere Kingston

Notes: The husband, son and I went to Kingston to visit our daughter who attends university there. The siblings hung out at night together at her apartment while us older folks curled up by the fire at a historic hotel with our books, newspapers and tea. It was very nice :)

www.hotelbelvedere.com/index.php

pictures for my zine. it will appear in about 5 years, at this rate

Watercolour and ink on A4 paper

Watercolour and ink on paper

#65 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: MI6 Logo & British coat of Arms

Result: Her Majesty's Secret Service Menagerie

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

Location: At home

Note: ....how much do I love the current 007 & Q, oh let me count the ways....and the soundtrack is now officially burned into my brain.

Watercolour and ink on paper

WV1051

WV2007

I was only joking, Maggie May...

Ink and coloured pencil on Steinbach paer

#81 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Hedgehogs remind me of walking pinecones

Result: Hedgehogs, pomanders & pine cones Oh My!

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

Location: At home

Note: I was annoyed for the better part of today as my water heater died this morning & flooded my furnace room floor. Yay. While I mopped and moped (waiting for the mechanic to replace the unit so I could wash the dishes piling up in my sink) I was thinking of hedgehogs...and other prickly things. Probably a reflection of my mood... *>_<! ....I will say that concentrating on drawing pine cones (what on EARTH was I thinking??) sure took my mind off the wet, sloppy floor for a while.

WV1658

2010

Elton John & Leon Russell: THE UNION

Coloured pencil and ink on $teinbach paper

@baloneyfeathers did the left half of this and I did the right. A cover to a coming soon collection of our drawings from the monster-us!!! show

#monstober #monsterus!!! #inkdrawings #monster-us!!!

#brush #ink #drawing

#99 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Zen napping in his bowl by my artdesk

Result: Curlycat

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, 005 Sakura Micron pen, 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

Note: Last daily drawing of the year and number 99 too...wow.

Watercolour and ink on paper

Sheltering behind glass screen from gale with sparrows eating my biscuit.

Jasper Ave., a side street of the Boulevard. I love the elongated S-T-O-P on the pavement, and the long-cast shadows at 7pm.

#67 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Foxy Lady in fur

Result: Lady Fox

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

Location: At home

Note: All these cat girls in fox fur coats...so just to be fair, today it's the flipside of that anthropomorphic coin. Oh and drawing a fox is not anything at all like drawing a dog...their faces are so pointy!

Encre de Chine

I'm not sure when it occurred to me. Maybe it was criticism that a working artist passed my way. I set the pens down for a month while we were in Nice and let things "sit."

The Muse visited and I started thinking of some really goofy ideas. I said to myself "stuff 'um! I'm doing something silly and I'm doing it for myself."

To explain what these were I did a title page to each drawing. As if it really explained anything, that is.

I first shared these with friends in England during our weekly Zoom calls. We had a "Show and Tell" kind of setup. To pass time during a Pandemic, right?

Watercolour and ink on paper

#302 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: HOURS on the phone dealing with a wireless carrier ... hours of my life just GONE!

Result: Customer Service

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

Location: Home

Note: ....admit it. You know EXACTLY how this feels. Most cathartic drawing I've ever put down on paper. <.<

are simply wonderful and I made half a book of drawings of various styles of them. I got so absorbed in my drawings that I fell off a sidewalk and broke a bone in the top of my foot.

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

The Beatles Songs Illustrated

THE BEATLES

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Martha My Dear

Music & lyrics by The Beatles, Lennon/McCartney 1968

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Martha my dear though I spend my days in conversation

Please

Remember me Martha my love

Don't forget me Martha my dear

Hold your head up you silly girl look what you've done

When you find yourself in the thick of it

Help yourself to a bit of what is all around you

Silly girl.

Take a good look around you

Take a good look you're bound to see

That you and me were meant to be for each other

Silly girl.

Hold your hand out you silly girl see what you've done

When you find yourself in the thick of it

Help yourself to a bit of what is all around you

Silly girl.

Martha my dear you have always been my inspiration

Please

Be good to me Martha my love

Don't forget me Martha my dear.

#300 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Storm thrashed our neighbourhood yesterday

Result: Chance of severe thunderstorms

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

Location: Home

Note: Yesterday the weather went sideways in downtown Waterloo ...according to the weather office the wind speeds reached 100km/hr....yeah the neighbourhood is a mess. We have power again though, my roof is intact, my car is not under a tree....nor is anyone I know. Whew!

...I have also cracked 300 with daily drawings. Go me.

Giving credit where credit is due, this is a landscape created using Aaron Blaise's Photoshop Wet Media Brushes and copying his basic technique. This is my first attempt at creating a Pen and Ink effect. For more info, check out my blog at sydspix.wordpress.com/2015/03/07/how-to-create-a-watercol....

Found piece of Wood -revisited to draw the location.

Ink drawing, 5" x 4", comes framed, available.