Inktober Day 18. Another gloomy day (although with heat and power!) can’t dampen my spirit when it comes to layin’ down some ink. Microns .02, .05 and .12 helped my hand create this scene. Looking out behind and to the side of the Robert E. Howard Museum in Cross Plains, Texas, this is my interpretation …
Weird Day. A power outage for almost 7 hours today on the nastiest day of the season so far just seemed to suck the life out of the entire day. But we’re back in the saddle now with lights, heat and clean clothes! My offering today is from a photo I took about 40 years …
Here’s a scene from a photo I took when visiting the Kuerner Farm in Chadds Ford, PA. Andrew Wyeth created thousands of works of art at this location.I started out using a Pentel STYLO pen but quickly switched to the Fudenosuke Tomboy Brush pen. These nifty little tools come in a 2-pack, one tip soft …
This scene is from Fedder’s Alley in Washington Park here in Michigan City, IN. Hope I put in enough weeds! I used my steel nib dip pen for this one, with Speedball Super Black India Ink. Pretty good stuff; it was $10.99 when I bought it a couple of years ago. I’m afraid to look …
Inktober Day 14. Tonight this is just me farting around with a Pentel Brush Pen. This nifty tool is a cartridge barrelled, nylon fiber tipped brush with which you can draw as long as the cartridge has ink (which is pretty long).I did the background with a skinny tipped gel pen so the emphasis is …
. Wonky internet all day. I’m posting this quick and hoping for the best. Have a better one.
. Here’s a quick one, done in between watercolors. Yes, I’m still painting and will eventually post them. This scene is from a photo I took in Marquette Park in my hometown of Gary, Indiana. I grew up in the Miller section on a sand dune and greatly enjoy the wonderful memories of that. Microns …
I’m obviously on an old building kick here, so don’t fight feeling, I say.This particular scene is along Highway 20 traveling west out of Michigan City. I’ve painted this one also, but I think it lends itself well enough to an ink drawing.The ink today came out of two gel pens. I contend that gel …
I seem to have a penchant for using scenes that I’ve painted before for my ink drawings. I’m finding it interesting that some familiarity with a subject seems to make it a bit easier when drawing it with an ink line (mostly Microns here). While it’s easier to transfer a pencil drawing into an ink …
This old deserted outbuilding is a couple miles away. I did a pencil sketch of it while sitting in my car. I liked the look of the “sketchiness” of it and didn’t want to ink over the pencil lines, so I put it on my little light table with clean paper on top and traced …