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#inktober 2016 days 6-10

[Inktober: 31 Days 31 Drawings, with a theme list, in case one needs inspiration.]

Day 6: hidden. Black ink drawing of a woman hidden partially by a hood.

Day 7: lost. Black ink drawing of a man in the desert in front of a post with elements which shadow on the ground forms an arrow. (Cf. Marc-Antoine Mathieu)

Day 8: rock. Black ink and light watercolour picturing pebbles piled on top of a rock in green water.

Day 9: broken. Black ink and grey/blue watercolour picturing broken glass.

Day 10: jump. Black ink and grey watercolour showing a horse jumping.

Inktober’s prompt list:

#inktober 2016 days 1-5

[cf. Inktober: 31 Days 31 Drawings, with a theme list, in case one needs inspiration.] My production thus far:

Day1: fast. Black ink and colour pencil drawing of a young samurai holding two swords, feet wide apart in a samurai stance of sort. I drew this at the bar Saturday, on the tiny note book that I got at the ParisWeb conference, using the wonderful Muji ink brush pen that Delphine gave me. A challenge for me was to draw it across and spanning two pages.

Day2: noisy. Black ink reproduction of Hiroshige Utagawa ‘full moon at Mimeguri’, showing in the forefront a wooden boat on water surrounded by reed, more reed in the middle ground as well as wooden stumps of sort, the silhouette of a forest in the background, and the full moon at the top. I drew this on the plane back from Paris, using Delphine’s Muji ink brush pen. Stéphane had given me a cardboard bookmark with this illustration, which he had gotten from the Guimet Museum of Asian Art that we visited per Virginie’s recommendation. I love Asian art, as the majority of this set suggests. As far as the theme is concerned, there’s nothing particularly noisy about this drawing, except for the fine lines that disrupt the stillness of the white paper.

Day3: collect. Black ink reproduction of a Japanese print from 1801 picturing a couple embracing, their mouths almost touching. Detail of a print from the ‘Japanese Erotic Treasures from the Guimet Museum” book I got on Sunday. I meant to add colour and patterns to the yukata, but ran out of time. As far as the theme is concerned, well, I’ll just say that these two collect orgasms.

Day4: hungry. Black ink reproduction of Simon’s cat, mouth wide open and finger waving in front of an empty food bowl. A red disk in watercolour surrounds the drawing. A quick and dirty job at the end of a long day. I used an old writing roller pen and smeared the ink as soon as I applied watercolour, but liked that it ended up picturing shadows.

Day5: sad. Black ink drawing of a clown, three tear drops running down her cheek. I did that tonight, using the Muji ink brush pen. This is the young adult version of a child clown I drew in high school.

Inktober’s prompt list:

#inktober: drawing, with a cadence

Saturday, on a rare occasion when Twitter procured serendipity, I discovered Inktober: 31 Days 31 Drawings.

Je me suis souvenu à temps que je voulais faire #inktober cette année. pic.twitter.com/0vvC0D3fxo

— Nim – @bbecquet@mamot.fr (@nimwendil) October 1, 2016

I have fond memories of the 2014 #defidessinfevrier I participated in and thought, on a whim, that I was going to cram one ink drawing per day in my agenda. More drawing, with a cadence! Here is a picture of the #inktober prompt list:

Making Christmas cards

I started to make Christmas cards yesterday, thinking that was going to be a quick thing. Wrong.

I wanted to use either or both watercolour pencils and watercolour pens. I went for the latter.

The pens are easy enough to use. Either apply colour on paper and quickly work with a brush and water, or apply colour on a plastic surface and mix on brush with water. My paper was barely thick enough, but that will do.

I sketched my scene, cut the elements, did the layout, drew on paper, painted cut out the elements and glued them.

Tada!

And I continued today, with different colours.

Update 12 December: I made a few more this week:

I intend to create a few more and hope there is time, as it’s quite time-consuming.

Update 19 December: I made a few more today and I’m done:

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