Thursday 17 October 2019

Blue Door


Blue Door
(Mixed media on board, 30x30 cm)


This door painting, the fourth in the series, took much more pushing and pulling than the others, but I think I’m satisfied with it now.

Saturday 12 October 2019

Inktober 2019 - Postscript

Chicken Shed
(Home made cane pen and Indian ink in square sketchbook)

Maybe I was feeling a little guilty at having given up on the Inktober challenge, or maybe I simply wanted to extract the elements of a photograph so that I could use those elements in some future painting. Whatever, I sat down with the photograph and drew this scratchy drawing with a home made pen, posting it on Facebook as Day 12 of Inktober 2019.

Anyway, I like it's lack of finesse.

Tuesday 8 October 2019

Inktober 2019 - The Castle Drawings


Well, Inktober 2019 came round and because I'd missed Inktober 2018 by virtue of being hard at work in Crete, I determined to give this year's event a go. However, I have a poor track record in keeping up with challenges and even this first drawing came unwillingly. I simply sat down and drew what came into my head. 

And that's how it went for a week, but I became conscious of how much thought I was actually giving to each successive drawing, willing it into a series. And so, after a week I gave up. I'll post the other six drawings below, but as they're so clearly cartoons rather than serious drawings, I may also post them separately on The Cartoonist's Hat.


All were drawn with a Pilot disposable fountain pen in a Pink Pig square sketchbook.