“Jack O’Lantern, Esq” Acrylic/Mixed media in a handmade Sketchbook made from Fabriano Artistico cold press watercolor paper. #AEDM2016 Day 3

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And today is the start of Art Every Day Month.   I was doing this long before Inktober.  Inktober is a cool idea, however, you are restricted to ink.    No markers, watercolor, etc.  The nice thing about Art Every Day Month (AEDM) is I am free to choose whatever media strikes my fancy.  I can just do sketches at a coffee shop, or life drawing class and it counts.   I can show a photo of a work in progress that I did that day and it counts!   The whole idea is to spend some time doing ANYTHING creative.  I actually feel less stressed about AEDM.  😂

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One way that I remember to fulfill AEDM, or even Inktober, is to put a daily reminder on my phone.  Then the obnoxious red reminder is there until I remove it.  Quite effective, actually.

So, here are some AEDM photos for you.

I did a quote this morning to keep my lettering practices going.

I also took a workshop with Leslie Wood and I finished a sketchbook with her technique.  Liked it so much that I took a handmade Teesha style sketchbook that was going nowhere and reworked it.  I took it apart and repainted the backgrounds.  Reassembled it with good book binding thread and here it is waiting to be used.

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It’s finally here!  Halloween!  And that means Inktober is over!!!!! Today’s prompt is “friend.”  So I came up with these two love birds.  However, the quote more reflects how glad I am that Inktober is over…..

One exciting thing.  For several months now, I have wanted a sketch easel.  Something I could use to hold a sketchbook and that I could also mount on a tripod.   A very generous owner of a cigar shop gave me this box.  My wonderful husband rigged it up, gave it several coats of varnish and here it is.  I did a quick gouache sketch out in front of the house to test it out.  It needs some tweaking but it worked just fine!

Here is the finished sketch….Happy 👻👻👻👻🎃🎃🎃🎃 Halloween!

I did this last year on the road to Florida…..then I forgot about it until my friend “across the pond,” Helen Leigh-Phippard started posting her sketches.  We are in the car a lot and I thought it would be a great way to pass the time in the car.  Of course, on Long Island, everyone drives like Mario Andretti so my husband had a tough time staying behind people so I can sketch them.  Some of my sketches are a combination of two different cars😂😂😂😂.

The best was the 1970 Cutlass.  That was worth sketching!

There is a cemetery near my house that has been around since the 1800’s.  I am always surprised how the headstones are in such great shape.  It’s bordered by the Patchogue lake so it’s a nice wild life spot as well.   I had two goals, an Inktober sketch and a small painting in my sketchbook.  I have been trying to get away from the herd mentality of the typical plein air subject matter.  However, this tree with the back lit leaves might be an interesting background for another painting down the line so I sketched it first with the sun at my back.  Then I thought that Joseph Zbukvic would say to tackle the subject looking into the sun, so I moved to the other side of tree and tackled it with the leaves back lit by the sun. I used gouache painted over Golden’s Liquid Quin Gold.  Then I scratched in some details with colored pencil.  I am not a purist, I’ll use whatever media it takes to get the job done. 

Drawing while out at happy hour

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My spin on the prompt “Creepy….”

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Inktober sketch done at Barnes and Noble and a more finished sketch with gouache.

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