WV1750

2011

B

...staring at the same four walls...

Ink/Gouache on $teinbach paper

This one looks a little weird, but I was in a sad mood when I drew it, so that's why it's a little crooked. It's like holding something that's bleeding... but I don't know what.

view from the umbrella

Preliminary drawing of a painting I'm still working on.

WV1304

2008

Ink on Steinbach paper

After I finished and packed up, a man working at a money exchange place who had been watching me, asked to see what I had drawn.

#234 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Dalikoneko kimono fashions

Result: Tradition with a twist

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Platinum Carbon Fountain Pen, Sakura Micron 005, Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils & Faber-Castell PITT artist pen white 101 in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon series sketchbook ( 21.6 cm 27.9 cm / 8 1/2" x 11")

Location: Home

Note:...yup still having fun drawing Japanese street fashion. :3

Assignment for my art class in 2005.

Desenho realizado para divulgação do bloco de carnaval Desliga da Justiça no Rio de Janeiro.

Eddie Campbell character

Drawings for 20202020 numbers 39-48 #delusional #popgunwar #itwillallhurt and #proximacentauri #inkdrawings #lineartwork #booksketches #thewrenchies

#185 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Result: Sultry Neko

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Platinum Carbon Fountain Pen & Faber Castell Pitt brush (Deep Scarlett Red 219) in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon series sketchbook ( 21.6 cm 27.9 cm / 8 1/2” x 11”)

Location: Home

Note:..it was Tennessee Williams`birthday yesterday. Me-ow!

The ink is from Knight's Writing Co., the Canadian distributor of this Polish ink :)

#77 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: 3rd Day of Christmas

Result: Three French Hens

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

Location: At home

Note: These three clucks are busy preparing a Bûche de Noël / Yule log, a traditional cake served during the Christmas season in France.

....when I started to mull over this composition in my head I chose immediately to walk the fine line between a realistic setting and cartoon (a cartoon would have had much less detail in the drawing). The song is fast approaching the point where the gifts are absurd collections and illustration options either cheesy and/or predictable. What I get out of the drawing of these has to be taken into consideration and for me having fun, as well as context and content are everything.

In other words, three chickens wearing French berets was just not going to happen. That has been done a million times before and I am highly allergic to creative bandwagons. Art does not happen in a vacuum, so I am sure the concept above is not unique, but as I've never seen it done... at least in my headspace... it's original and a subtle nod to three French hens.

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?

Drawings sent out with books last month. #20202020 #lineartwork #drawings #pendrawings #originalcharacterdrawing #itwillallhurt #freehanddrawing #linedrawings #inkdrawings #booksketches #booksketch #inkart #inkartwork #leonfireglove

Watercolour and ink on paper

#181 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: Discovering that USPS allows people to post adult birds.

Result: Registered Male

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: ....There were so many things I wanted to draw regarding this because my brain just plain exploded as I looked over the regulations...in particular since the USPS doesn't limit itself to chickens. Just consider this restraining myself...

"....Adult chickens, turkeys, guinea fowl, doves, pigeons, pheasants, partridges, quail, ducks, geese, and swans are mailable when properly packaged."

…I’m guessing there is a special trick to folding a swan and getting it into the envelope….and it’s probably called Ornicrami ;)

pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5_007.htm#ep198129%3Cbr%3E%3...

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.

Watercolour and ink on paper

Drawing with Diamine Ancient copper, Noodler's Apache Sunset & Private Reserve Ebony Brown inks (with a yellow) on Stillman & Birn, Epsilon

Tinta gel sobre papel carta

Watercolour and ink on paper

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

The Beatles Songs Illustrated

... It was 50 years ago that the Beatles released their first album.

PLEASE PLEASE ME

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Do You Want To Know A Secret?

Music & lyrics by The Beatles, Lennon-McCartney

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You'll never know how much I really love you.

You'll never know how much I really care.

Listen,

Do you want to know a secret,

Do you promise not to tell, whoa oh, oh.

Closer,

Let me whisper in your ear,

Say the words you long to hear,

I'm in love with you.

Listen,

Do you want to know a secret,

Do you promise not to tell, whoa oh, oh.

Closer,

Let me whisper in your ear,

Say the words you long to hear,

I'm in love with you.

I've known the secret for a week or two,

Nobody knows, just we two.

Listen,

Do you want to know a secret,

Do you promise not to tell, whoa oh, oh.

Closer,

Let me whisper in your ear,

Say the words you long to hear,

I'm in love with you.

inkdrawing by Jim Cliff

#96 of 365 Daily Drawings

Inspiration: 12 Days of Christmas

Result: Seven Swans a Swimming (for GOLD!)

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Sakura Micron 005, 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: This thing started out with 8 swans…good thing I noticed before I got to inking or there would have be much crying fowl on my part. *>.<!! I blame day three of a headache on my inability to count beyond 5 fingers.

As for the composition….boy this one took me a while to figure out. It finally clicked when I happened to see a picture of synchronized swimmers while listening to Swan Lake. It was one of those head-slapping moments when you realize that it really was that simple.

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