Artober 13th

This evening, all I managed to do was paint in a base layer of watercolor on the current doodle project.   I decided to keep it simple with a monochromatic look and used opera pink, which was surprisingly difficult to accurately represent in my photo, this time.  It’s warmer and less purple-leaning than it appears on […]

Artober 12th

I didn’t get as far as starting to add any watercolor today, but at least I finally filled the whole page with doodles!  Coloring-in can begin tomorrow. I also took a few minutes to add the last details to the bird collage, including some more bits of plants and the birds’ eyes.   Donald saw a […]

Artober 11th

Another day of not doing much, but still something. I continued adding to the page of green doodles.  The pen also continued to be temperamental and required a few pauses to get it working again.  I’m still not done, and I’m kind of running out of ideas of things I want to add, so we’ll […]

Artober 10th

We were very fortunate to not have any damage from the storm yesterday.  There was a large branch down over the easement, so we removed that, but as far as we could see, that was just about the worst of it here!  We never even lost power, and though a couple of family members did, […]

Artober 9th

As I type this, there are roaring gusts of wind outside the house—but so far we’ve been very lucky.  The storm veered to our east, and we haven’t lost power (yet).  Lots of other people in our area have lost electricity, though, and our neighbors in the Florida panhandle are bearing the brunt of Hurricane […]

Artober 8th

I was running short on time today, but I still squeezed in a little Artober time.   For today, I painted simple shapes first, then added the details in ink afterwards.   I used some White Nights granulating watercolor.  They’re probably not achieving their full potential here, but I hadn’t used them in a while and wanted […]

Artober 7th

More in the Gluebook I had a little time in the middle of the day and decided to quickly “do” another page in the dog-themed gluebook.  I cut out another of the charcoal gel-prints, did… something… with the background (pre-grungified with pink paint blobs)… and left it there for now.  A Different Collage Subject I’m […]

Artober 6th

I ended up doing even less today than yesterday, but I still spent some time doing something, at least!  I thought maybe it was time to return to the dog-themed gluebook project—using some of the papers I gel printed over the weekend.   The first page used the gel print with the charcoal dog combined with the […]

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 […]