Collaborative Art

Our grandson Madox visited on Saturday, and as always, he wanted to do a little painting. I’ve bought him a … More

A Little Dickens

Last month as I monitored our HFAA Art Show, I did a lot of drawing and sketching. I made doodle … More

Breathe Deeply…

My first experience of art as a form of meditation came about a year ago during Inktober 2017 when I … More

Originality — Or the Lack Thereof

Originality is a word that’s heard in all areas of art: creative writing, dance, music, drawing, painting, and any other … More

Going Impressionist

Art has become fun again in recent days. For a while, you see, I’d been struggling with my oil painting. … More

A Radical Departure

I love each new issue of Artist magazine I receive. I always find inspiration in its pages, and even more, … More

Now That Inktober Is Over

Completing thirty-one pen-and-ink drawings was, for me, quite an accomplishment. It was also quite a challenge. In looking back over … More

Happy Halloween

I saved one Inktober prompt for today. It’s the gift prompt. When that prompt appeared, I spent a morning making Halloween silhouette … More

Thunder and Friends

I have finished Inktober! My final drawing will appear tomorrow to mark the official end of the month-long celebration of … More

Stretch

The fellow I drew for the stretch prompt didn’t turn out quite as long and stretchy as I’d first envisioned him. … More

Prickly

Along with doodle monsters, I’ve been drawing a lot of comical Halloween-themed figures — playful ghosts, smiling vampires, and cross-eyed witches, … More

Chop

I chopped onions yesterday, so for the chop prompt, that was an immediate thought. I even sketched a trio of onions. … More

Muddy

I came up with lots of possibilities for muddy as a drawing prompt, but at the same time I was baffled … More

Expensive

Other than my wedding ring, I don’t wear jewelry. When I was younger I occasionally wore a few bangle bracelets, … More

Drain

Usually when I see a prompt word for any form of creative expression, my mind skips about in a dozen … More

Breakable

As always, I had several thoughts for this Inktober prompt — breakable. A shattered mirror, delicate china teacups, lovely plates … More

Scorched

For the Inktober prompt scorched, several different ideas came to mind. In the end, I decided to create a new doodle monster … More

Bottle

First, let me say that when Inktober began, I had no intentions of creating drawings or narratives that included cruelty … More

Swollen

While creating people monsters, I recently sketched this fellow. I liked him, and when I noticed swollen as an Inktober prompt, I decided … More

Angular

While drawing weird monsters at the library one morning, I created a very angular man — his body a long, narrow … More