Collaborative Art

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

A Little Dickens

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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