Every day I do small, vignette type of sketches. I’ve been doing them for a while now and some of them have inspired more finished pieces. I don’t normally post them but here is the the first week of Inktober (Monday thru Sunday.)
Inktober Week 1
It’s Inktober…….again. Like an endless loop on Groundhog Day.
I am a week behind with my postings but that’s ok because I figured it’s easier on your in boxes, lol.
I am working on three simultaneous daily tasks. These are done every day just to keep the creative juices flowing.
One is my daily postcard to mom. I am combining the Inktober prompts with my postcards and I am adding color with Arteza brush pens.
I am including the back of the postcards so that you can read what I sent my mom.
Day Prompt – Ring
Day 2 Mindless
Day 3 Bait
Day 4 Frozen
Day 5 Build
Day 6 Husky
Day 7 Enchanted
Back to school
Here is another “Little Witch and Kitty” post. I don’t know if I will be posting these every day since October is in a week and I may going gung ho on a mixed media project.
Today I remembered to photograph the actual back of the postcard…hopefully you can read it without me having to transcribe it.š
For those of you just tuning in, these postcards get mailed to my mom who lives in assisted living in another state.
Yesterday was the first day of Autumn
This post was supposed to go out yesterday.
John and I have been very busy going through all of our belongings to reduce what we have, then putting it out for yard sales. It’s been taking some time and it pulls me away from my desk. I still create daily but I keep getting pulled away from the technology. Hence the lack of posts.
The Little Witch and her kitty have returned. They have been doing lots of things since last autumn. The Little Witch has been gardening and growing herbs and mushrooms. She’s been studying herbology to understand the healing and potion properties of plants. Kitty has been helping, usually by knocking over flower pots chasing wildlife and flipping pages in textbooks.
I mailed this out to my mom yesterday with a little story on the back and stuffed it in an envelope before I realized that I meant to take a photo of the back so I would remember the story. Oh well. Mom gets her own version of the story.
Morning Page
Every morning I do a page spread like this. I first learned about it from Carla Sonheim when she introduced us to The Artistās Way by Julia Cameron. Carla showed us how she did a page in her sketchbook and over the years I have tweaked it to fit my needs.
I took my time this morning and wrote a little more legibly so that the format could be understood. As you can see from the “Ideasā column, I am still considering different formats.
I am working my way through the Chihuahuas uploaded to Sktchy so that drawing them from my head becomes 2nd nature. This is already Chihuahua #7. So that I am not spending too much of my day on these sketches, I set a timer for 5 minutes and usually stop, but today I added the shading with another marker.
Enjoy and have a great day!
Paint the Great South Bay
It’s that time of year again where I am the chairperson for an annual plein air event. I get to participate but I am obviously not eligible for prizes but that’s ok. When my paintings sell, that’s prize enough for me.
As typical with plein air, there are adventures to tell. Several storms this week, one really was a humdinger.
The first painting was not making me happy so I totally reworked it to the one you see below.
The next painting was completed from the rooftop of the Village Walk Assisted Living facility. They are great people and they really participate in community activities.
We had a model on Wednesday, but we had about an hour and 20 min to work and then another storm rolled in and we had to pack it in. I went back yesterday to do the background and I used the photo reference that I took to finish. This isn’t eligible to hang in the gallery but I am glad I finished this one.
I also took pictures of the artists painting the model.
Last but not least, today’s Quick Draw painting where we get three hours to work on a painting. This actually took me less than 2.
I am exhausted.
Infinite Sketch
I signed up to participate in the Sketchbook Project’s “Infinite Sketch.” You get a 6×9 postcard with some art supplies and you create a segment of a creature that will connect to another artists’ segment, and so on. One artist gets selected for the head and another gets the butt. I’m somewhere in the middle but that’s ok, less pressure on me.
This is my body segment; a duck footed caterpiller.
