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Outbound Ferry
Outbound ferry leaving Oban at 9:49 am under windy and rainy conditions as seen through the main parlor’s windows, a quick, freehand iPad drawing in Sketch Club app using an Apple Pencil after breakfast.
Outbound Ferry
Thanks to Storm Boelo
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Yea, thanks to Storm Boelo and that 12-hour power outage it caused during our stay in Portree, Isle of Skye from October 22 – 26, 2026, I had some time to draw on my iPad – an opportunity to see the extraordinary in the ordinary.
I’m not quite sure what happened to the pheasant’s long feathers.
Fore!
Inspired by a drive earlier today through St. Andrews in Scotland.
Fore
Looks like Annyth caught me at the Ferryhill House Hotel Bar in Aberdeen, Scotland drawing “Fore.”
What a night!
Dave McMurray
It was so intense that night, I had to pick just one of them to spend some extra time with on my iPad in Sketch Club. So I picked Dave McMurray on saxophone from Don Was and the Pan-Detroit Ensemble. Check them out, if you’re not already familiar with them. That was October 10, 2026 at Stuart’s Opera House in Nelsonville, OH, oh, and Jorma Kaukonen sat in on the following:
A Plain Buggie
A Plain Buggie
“A Plain Buggie” Sketch Club Stats
Suspect is 6’ 8” and weighs 270 lbs.
Screenshot
Screenshot
a wee dram
a wee dram
A wee dram is a traditional Scottish term for a small, single drink of whisky. In this phrase, “wee” means small or little, and a “dram” refers to a serving of spirits.
Sketch Club stats
Psycho-cyclospora
There’s diarrhea; and then there’s explosive diarrhea.
Likewise, there’s logorrhea, the medical and psychological term for unstoppable, excessive talking or extreme wordiness. It comes from Greek roots meaning “word” and “flow”. Is there explosive logorrhea? And, if so, is there explosive presidential logorrhea, the likes of which we have grown accustomed to morning, noon, and night?
Am I alone in wondering about the opposite of diarrhea, the explosive version?
On the Throne
Hot Tuna: Spotlight on Jack’s Jawline
Jorma Kaukonen has appeared on this illustroblog multiple times to one degree or another as you can see here. He’s legendary, not only around here in Athens, OH where he lives, but pretty much everywhere else. We’re lucky, we get to see Jorma and John Hurlbut playing around Athens pretty regularly, and what a treat it is! Getting to see Jorma and Jack Casady reunite as Hot Tuna, that doesn’t happen so frequently. Check out this clip of them in 1969. So, Annyth and I, thanks to some good friends who jumped on 3rd-row, Stuart’s-Opera-House tickets for all of us back in February, got to see Jorma and Jack doing what they do best; and they did that and more along with special guest, harmonicist extraordinaire, Ross Garren! I wish I had four ears instead of only two!
When my ears weren’t completely blown away by the music, my eyes would wander off and dwell on Jack’s expressive face. If I had brought a 25 lb. block of clay with me, I would have sculpted it right then and there!
That was Friday, July 17, 2026. The very next day I sat down with Jack, well, a photo I took of him, and spent some time with him and a few of his features.
Jack, rounded up to the nearest 100
Technical: I painted Jack’s “portrait” on my iPad Pro using an Apple Pencil and these apps: Sketch Club, Procreate, and iColorama. It’s pretty orange, isn’t it? Here’s the reference photo I took and used. Because of the lighting, things got pretty orange.
Reference photo… 🍊
Nevertheless, lot of fun!
