Home calligraphy autodidaction continues with experimental cover sketches for album lyric books. Inspirational thanks to Cardon Webb, who sent me a clip of Seb Lester’s calligraphy. Thanks and thanks.

This is #5 of six paintings from my 1989 series, “Reconstruction of the Universe Game: Obstacles.”

“Here’s what I always ask myself when I get stuck while writing a song: what would Tom Petty do? It almost always works” – DW ’14

Just a thought. There are some phrases that only appear in songs, even though they pretend to be things people say.”Winter’s day”; “her body rockin’”; “trouble and strife”; “eyes of blue,” etc. I try to avoid them. Personally, I’d rather hear real nonsense than pretend-sounding dialogue.