#Inktober # 11

#Inktober #11Basking in the sun, I was reading Danny Gregory’s “Art Before Breakfast” and Page 113 talks about not being so hung up on perfection, which in Julia Cameron’s book “The Artist’s Way,” she echoes that same sentiment. When you try to be too perfect, you pretty much take yourself right out of your creativity. Perfection can be the enemy because you aren’t willing to take the (positive) risks that come your way. If you want perfection, take a picture…..but If you want art, then take that leap of faith and let the art say what it needs to say.
I grabbed my sketchbook that my son and future daughter-in-law gave me last Christmas and I drew my wicker chairs using a twig and dipped it in ink. Then I tightened it up with a fountain pen filled with the same ink. See Page 110 and 111 for how Danny did this.  

  

#Inktober Day 4 and Raku sketches

Here is my #Inktober Day 4. I sketched this at the nursing home visiting my mother-in-law while my husband hovered waiting to snatch up his favorite candy. They were coloring and I had given my mother-in-law some candy which she happily ate and we all created “art” together…..my husband eventually got the peppermint patty.
  
Now for some cool stuff….these were done later this afternoon and early this evening at the Raku party that the Patchogue Arts Council held to kick off PAC MAC week. I really enjoyed doing this and can’t wait until they do it again!!!

A disclaimer, these are NOT meant to be masterpieces or something to hang on a wall, these were “moments” I tried to capture quickly. I didn’t add watercolor until after I got home and I hadn’t planned on sketching so all I had on me was my homemade sketchbook that I carry in my handbag and a Lamy Safari pen that had Noodlers Violet ink in it, which I noticed was not waterproof…….

If you haven’t done raku, it’s a pyro’s dream, LMAO. It’s so awesome!
I also include a photo of my pots.

  

Sketching before dark

I had to get my sketching “fix” this evening. I was driving along looking for something to catch my eye and this house caught my attention. It looks like it belongs in the French Quarter but it’s right here in Bayport NY