Inktober Day 28. With this being Halloween weekend, these next four will have some kind of Halloween theme. Robert E. Howard was a writer for pulp magazines back in the 1920’s & 30’s. By combining a horror element with an adventure story set in a time before recorded history and adding elements of the fantastical, …
Inktober Day 27.And now, for something completely different. This is a Piranesi drawing, taught to us at the Michigan City Art League by Matt Kubik. He was teaching different forms of drawing with hatching and gave us this exercise as homework. Something light and fun. Tomorrow’s Friday, so I hope yours is light and fun.
Inktober Day 26.We’re coming into the home stretch here, so I might switch to monsters soon to celebrate Halloween. Tonight’s drawing is a quickie, done with that nifty Pentel STYLO with the flexible nib. I taught my watercolor class at the steel mill Learning Center today and that always poops me out. Hope y’all can …
Inktober Day 25. I am reminded today that my knees are not what they used to be. Climbing stairs and hiking through sand yesterday has me hobbling pretty good today. But I will endeavor to persevere. This scene is from yesterday and shows that sometimes a watercolor is better than an ink drawing. The yellow …
Inktober Day 24. I had a most enjoyable day, driving over to the West Beach portion of the Indiana Dunes National Park, using my National Parks Senior Pass to enter for free.There is an overlook point at the top of one of the higher dunes and I trudged up 200+ stairs to the zenith; lo …
Inktober Day 23. This scene is south of MC on Wozniak Road. They used to sell fruit, vegetables and apple cider here but I don’t know what the pandemic did to them. Maybe I’ll take a ride tomorrow with the promise of another day in the 70’s. I did this with my steel nib pen …
Inktober Day 22. I’ve done a pencil sketch and a watercolor of this scene, and now by doing an ink drawing of it, there’s a new perspective for me. I’m finding this to be true of almost all of these Inktober drawings.I like it. This is from a photo I took of a deserted barn …
Inktober Day 21. Earlier this summer we had a doe and twin fawns show up in our back yard. We’ve got a wall of foliage along the back line and deer magically appear to munch on clover, grass and a couple of wild onions from the yard.I caught the twins sun bathing one day. I …
Inktober Day 20. This scene is from nearby Fedder’s Alley near the beach here in Michigan City. I caught a number of nice shadows while walking this path. Microns .02 and .05 did the deed tonight.
Today was art day for me; I did 2 watercolors and this ink drawing, so yippee-oh-kai-yay! This is a big ol’ pine tree over at the beach in Beverly Shores which I will probably do a painting of. Yeah, I know – don’t end with a preposition – blah blah.A Micron .05 and a Pilot …