Artober 5th

Artober 5th Project I haven’t managed to do much to show today, but doing a little is all it takes to keep up with my challenge.   Yesterday, I left this page of squashed-up houses like this: This evening, I added some details in ink pen.  I had planned to add some acrylic marker, too, but […]

Artober 4th

Artober 3rd Into 4th Project After posting yesterday evening’s entry, I had some free time, so I decided to start another page.  My initial inspiration came from this YouTube video by Cate Field.  It’s not that different from things I’ve done before, such as some pages inspired by Diane Antone (also to be found on […]

Artober 3rd

Artober 3rd Project Last night, I wrote that maybe I would try to clean my ceramic palette with today’s project.  It had the leftovers of the watercolor paint I used to tint the “creepy” gallery wall, so lots of muted colors—along with a few dots of bright blue left over from something much further back.   […]

Artober 2nd

I may have to rethink when I post these “Artober” entries… My first thought was to post them in the evenings, but that’s often when I feel like painting or doodling, so if I’m blogging then, the challenge will actually interfere with my “artistic/creative” time.  Counterproductive.   Maybe I’ll try just posting every day about what […]

Artober 1st

Last year, I tried a simplified version of Inktober, which is basically just a challenge to draw something every day in October.  There’s an official list of prompts, and people often share their work online (Instagram?) with the appropriate tags.  In addition to improving your skills with practice, I guess the idea is to get […]