Today is the first day of the second Ultimate Blogging Challenge of the year. It’s also week thirteen of Inktober 52, and it’s day 39 of the 100-day art project. The theme for day 39 is “what you take away.” Here are some ideas of things that you could remove that you wouldn’t miss: comparing […]
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One fun art project is to depict the same subject in four different ways. It’s a really enjoyable thing to do and it helps you stretch your creativity. And so, I did exactly that. I started off with an ink drawing that I made in response to the Inktober week six prompt, which was “granny.”
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Last October, I completed the one-month Inktober project for the first time in three tries. Drawing in ink every day for a month helped me to like the medium. And so, I decided to continue year round with Inktober’s second challenge, Inktober 52. It’s a really great idea and it’s been an opportunity to grow
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I get a prompt, and I get to use that prompt to create a drawing. The prompt is from the Inktober challenge (https://inktober.com/), which has created both the annual Inktober event (a prompt a day for the month of October), and Inktober 52 (one prompt a week for the year). So, I am doing Inktober
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For week six of Inktober 52, the prompt is “swamp.” And here is a picture of a lovely swamp in Reinstein Woods. It’s full of gorgeous lily pads and makes me think of Claude Monet and his peaceful impressionistic paintings of lily pads. So… is my picture this week of a swamp filled with lily
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After I completed the Inktober project in October for the first time, I realized that I really liked drawing with ink. Okay, technically, I’m drawing with a pencil and am inking it in afterwards. But still, that’s considered acceptable, according to the people who run Inktober. Early in October, I had started getting the Inktober
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Last October, I made my third effort to do Inktober. Until then, I never finished the month. But this past year, I did finished it for the first time, probably because I paired the drawings with stories about Bearnacle Bear when he was still known as Baby Bear. After Inktober was finished, I realized that
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