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 […]

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 […]

Puppy Gifs & More

We got our first taste of fall late last week, and Friday night was cool enough that Mom and Dad decided to have a fire—the first hot-dog roast of the season.    Pippin Pix & Gifs As you might imagine, Pippin has taken up a lot of our spare time this month.  He’s already visibly […]