tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84884464723240634762024-03-05T01:43:44.938-08:00COBOL ARTSCOBOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15856677999604792527noreply@blogger.comBlogger191125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8488446472324063476.post-36999999409884314872014-03-01T16:41:00.002-08:002014-03-01T16:41:53.673-08:00Illustration Friday - Voice<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"I was born like this</div>
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I was born with the gift of a golden voice"</div>
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from "The Tower of Song" by the wonderful Leonard Cohen</div>
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Markers in sketchbook
COBOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15856677999604792527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8488446472324063476.post-20311511353096290122013-06-05T14:41:00.002-07:002013-06-05T14:41:43.838-07:00Illustration Friday - Sweet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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An assortment of sweet fruit, pastel on black paper
COBOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15856677999604792527noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8488446472324063476.post-56611828116577386132013-04-17T17:12:00.000-07:002013-04-17T17:12:02.307-07:00Illustration Friday - Wild<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There have recently been a few things in the paper about pet monkeys, first the lady who lost hers at an Ikea store and then Justin Bieber trying to bring his monkey into Germany. Apparently monkeys are terrible pets and become quite traumatized by being treated as pets, dogs and cats have been domestic pets for centuries, leave monkeys alone, they're wild animals
COBOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15856677999604792527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8488446472324063476.post-63911346834772317992013-04-05T17:07:00.002-07:002013-04-05T17:07:24.677-07:00Illustration Friday - Urban<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Toronto Highrises</div>
COBOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15856677999604792527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8488446472324063476.post-18604697243604703442013-03-24T10:43:00.001-07:002013-03-24T10:43:49.278-07:00Illustration Friday - Swim<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I love to swim in the ocean but there are a lot of things you need to look out for
COBOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15856677999604792527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8488446472324063476.post-77715022399503236592013-03-16T14:19:00.000-07:002013-03-16T14:19:34.555-07:00Illustration Friday - Eye Glasses<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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also Jörg Krühne for JKPP. markers in sketchbook
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For Julia Kay's Portrait Party found here:<br />
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you can find his art and photos here:<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jkruehne/">www.flickr.com/photos/jkruehne/</a>COBOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15856677999604792527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8488446472324063476.post-3440549544608517342013-03-14T10:25:00.001-07:002013-03-14T10:25:27.050-07:00Illustration Friday - Yesterday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ever since I saw this week's topic I've had Paul McCartney's lovely little song stuck in my head, so here he is, the "cute" Beatle
COBOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15856677999604792527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8488446472324063476.post-14182530218849062162013-03-04T10:32:00.003-08:002013-03-04T10:32:31.632-08:00Illustration Friday - Talent<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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John Hammond is probably best known for signing Bob Dylan to Columbia records but he had a remarkable ability to recognize musical talent. This is his Wikipedia intro:<br />
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John Henry Hammond II (December 15, 1910 – July 10, 1987) was an American record producer, Civil Rights activist and music critic from the 1930s to the early 1980s. In his service as a talent scout, Hammond became one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music.<br />
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Hammond was instrumental in sparking or furthering numerous musical careers, including those of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Benny Goodman, Charlie Christian, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Teddy Wilson, Big Joe Turner, Pete Seeger, Babatunde Olatunji, Aretha Franklin, George Benson, Freddie Green, Leonard Cohen, Arthur Russell, Asha Puthli and Stevie Ray Vaughan. He is also largely responsible for the revival of delta blues artist Robert Johnson's music.<br />
COBOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15856677999604792527noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8488446472324063476.post-7780750730257417992013-02-26T09:13:00.002-08:002013-02-26T09:13:48.564-08:00Illustration Friday - Whisper<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'
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I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin'<br />
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter<br />
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley<br />
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard<br />
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.<br />
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The apocalyptic visions of a very young Bob Dylan<br />
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COBOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15856677999604792527noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8488446472324063476.post-87565261511990773832012-12-12T11:39:00.001-08:002012-12-12T11:39:17.592-08:00Illustration Friday - Explore<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been wanting to explore using acrylics on paper as an alternative to watercolour and gouache so it was great that Liquitex did a demo at the Guelph School Of Art on Sunday, at the end we received a free brush, gloss medium and 2 tubes of paint, a Gold Green and a Magenta which accounts for the colours used here<br />
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Jimi Hendrix certainly explored many new possibilities for the electric guitar during his sadly short career<br />
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markers and coloured pencils in Moleskine sketchbook
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This is a portrait of Emma, one of my daughter's beautiful cats
COBOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15856677999604792527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8488446472324063476.post-62800855001135003002012-11-14T08:39:00.000-08:002012-11-14T08:39:57.886-08:00Illustration Friday - Tree<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Markers in sketchbook
COBOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15856677999604792527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8488446472324063476.post-555142298664459032012-11-07T05:42:00.001-08:002012-11-07T05:42:17.621-08:00Illustration Friday - Shy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Nothing shy about the young ladies who posed for Playboy magazine such as this lovely Miss April from 1959. Another tip of the bowler hat to Rene Magritte, Part of my <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobol/sets/72157631065942398/" target="_blank">Centrefold Variations Set on Flickr</a> - CAUTION: other pictures in the set are more explicit nudesCOBOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15856677999604792527noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8488446472324063476.post-24172090636553236442012-10-30T14:39:00.001-07:002012-10-30T14:39:10.229-07:00Illustration Friday - Haunt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Based on an older photo of the great American writer Joyce Carol Oates, many of her stories and characters will haunt you for a very long time
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I have hit a lot of golf balls into the water on this hole. This is the 6th hole at Victoria Park East golf course in Guelph, Ontario
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An idea stolen from one of my favourite painters, Rene Magritte
COBOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15856677999604792527noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8488446472324063476.post-26881841822578760802012-10-02T08:15:00.001-07:002012-10-02T08:15:53.538-07:00Illustration Friday - Book<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The book I'm currently reading is "The Story of the Night" by the wonderful Irish writer Colm Toibin
COBOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15856677999604792527noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8488446472324063476.post-76712428312600291332012-03-27T07:17:00.000-07:002012-03-27T07:17:33.923-07:00Illustration Friday - Swamp<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFy0eLHgEWZ5a02837SyGecN9IG5XoMScGJMtaPtQ1_ZTPNHOLS0fz9rWApyfAJXiNux4qwmKg-CB3QrFe7VI_Giga5wrQpzGmPB0HP6YzW3niSZwOP0FAHuC6R9mIDGRTJ_53NTrOm5E/s1600/DSC00032-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" dea="true" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFy0eLHgEWZ5a02837SyGecN9IG5XoMScGJMtaPtQ1_ZTPNHOLS0fz9rWApyfAJXiNux4qwmKg-CB3QrFe7VI_Giga5wrQpzGmPB0HP6YzW3niSZwOP0FAHuC6R9mIDGRTJ_53NTrOm5E/s320/DSC00032-1.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Not sure of the difference between a swamp and a marsh, this is loosely based on a photo of Rattray Marsh in Mississauga, OntarioCOBOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15856677999604792527noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8488446472324063476.post-61695190719121532902012-03-20T07:21:00.001-07:002012-03-20T07:22:11.676-07:00Illustration Friday - Shades<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EfCwON8GtaU/T2iRkWqTUjI/AAAAAAAACNk/Y_Tl12waV4Q/s1600/DSC00458-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img aea="true" border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EfCwON8GtaU/T2iRkWqTUjI/AAAAAAAACNk/Y_Tl12waV4Q/s320/DSC00458-1.JPG" width="262" /></a></div>I wasn't planning to do another portrait of Tom Waits but then I saw this poster for Record Store Day <a href="http://www.recordstoreday.com/CustomPage/1304">http://www.recordstoreday.com/CustomPage/1304</a> - you need to scroll down a bit to see the poster - and then I saw the Illustration Friday topic so I really had no choice, this is a quick sketch with 2 shades of blue marker on an old piece of glossy paper I had lying aroundCOBOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15856677999604792527noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8488446472324063476.post-28271711618905664562012-03-07T14:25:00.001-08:002012-03-08T09:38:41.686-08:00Illustration Friday - Intention<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0MH0xve1SvY/T1ffnbqENpI/AAAAAAAACNI/GD54L2GzDuE/s1600/DSC00437-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0MH0xve1SvY/T1ffnbqENpI/AAAAAAAACNI/GD54L2GzDuE/s320/DSC00437-1.JPG" width="243" yda="true" /></a></div>Perhaps the greatest example of good intentions going horribly wrong was Prohibition in the US in the 1920's. It led to violence and the establishment of organized crime on a huge scale. I'm just catching up on season 2 of the excellent - though excessively violent - HBO series Boardwalk Empire starring the great actor Steve Buscemi<br />
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I wasn't entirely happy with the ink version of this so I went at it with some markers, I like this version a little better<br />
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</div>I was a little disappointed in the albums Tom Waits released after Mule Variations but his latest, Bad As Me, shows he is still capable of writing great songs and creating highly original music<br />
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this is based on a screen capture from Youtube, way back in 1977 on a German TV show<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByomIJf5n9w&feature=bf_next&list=PL85A189277660E47F&lf=mh_lolz&shuffle=789862">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByomIJf5n9w&feature=bf_next&list=PL85A189277660E47F&lf=mh_lolz&shuffle=789862</a>COBOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15856677999604792527noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8488446472324063476.post-18888818126435485312012-02-21T13:40:00.000-08:002012-02-21T13:40:24.927-08:00Illustration Friday - Fluid<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y7aK1Nx6lvI/T0QPLIuadkI/AAAAAAAACMk/U3GG2aSofNU/s1600/DSC00373-2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="237" lda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y7aK1Nx6lvI/T0QPLIuadkI/AAAAAAAACMk/U3GG2aSofNU/s320/DSC00373-2.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Very high on my list of favourite fluidsCOBOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15856677999604792527noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8488446472324063476.post-89660916809929582072012-02-12T13:40:00.000-08:002012-02-12T13:40:31.208-08:00Illustration Friday - Popularity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFC8i1fx6bF7GIP2jWnzYvPecH3MpTeU8SYmzwWCrxMiyRd6XNiezWWEnAwHZlDv70q5bkhlpZdaPGZlwPhQsotXXV4yOEWMk1wWOKoqMBAJePHVESJidN9uGhhzLv-jrKkNEg0mBcq00/s1600/DSC00348-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" sda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFC8i1fx6bF7GIP2jWnzYvPecH3MpTeU8SYmzwWCrxMiyRd6XNiezWWEnAwHZlDv70q5bkhlpZdaPGZlwPhQsotXXV4yOEWMk1wWOKoqMBAJePHVESJidN9uGhhzLv-jrKkNEg0mBcq00/s320/DSC00348-1.JPG" width="236" /></a></div>I cannot comprehend the popularity of Dancing With The Stars. Who needs to see a bunch of obscure - at least to me - so-called celebrities embarrass themselves doing something they are not good at? There are so many excellent ballroom and performance dancers out there who almost no-one ever goes to see yet millions watch this nonsense. But maybe I'm just still annoyed that Lil Kim was eliminated so quickly the season she was onCOBOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15856677999604792527noreply@blogger.com4