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Year in Review: 2020
What a year. I’m not sure if anyone had the year they thought they would when 2020 started. I know I definitely didn’t. So many events I was looking forward to were cancelled and many that continued on were mostly spent unseen during the initial shutdown because of COVID-19 and…
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Inktober 2020: Days 26-31
Last week of Inktober! I made it! Do you have a favorite drawing from this past week? If you’ve just started following along and are unfamiliar with Inktober, it’s an annual drawing challenge that encourages artists to create a drawing each day with ink based on a list of daily…
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Inktober 2020: Days 19-25
Another week down! Do you have a favorite drawing from this past week? If you’ve just started following along and are unfamiliar with Inktober, it’s an annual drawing challenge that encourages artists to create a drawing each day with ink based on a list of daily prompts. It’s a great…
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Inktober 2020: Days 12-18
Another week down! Do you have a favorite drawing from this past week? Are you participating too? If you’ve just started following along and are unfamiliar with Inktober, it’s an annual drawing challenge that encourages artists to create a drawing each day with ink based on a list of daily…
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Inktober 2020: Days 5-11
Update with this past week’s Inktober sketches! Do you have a favorite so far? Are you participating too? If you missed last week and are unfamiliar with Inktober, it’s an annual drawing challenge that encourages artists to create a drawing each day with ink based on a list of daily…
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4 Shading Techniques for Ink & Pencil
This month there’s a flood of people making drawings in ink for Inktober and other drawing challenges! Feedback that I’ve heard from artist friends or those that consider themselves not-yet-artists is that they struggle with shading, so I thought I would take a minute to share some tips! Shading is…
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Inktober 2020: Days 1-4
It’s October, which means it’s time for the annual Inktober drawing challenge! Are you participating this year? Inktober is a drawing challenge that encourages artists to create a drawing each day with ink based on a list of daily prompts. The challenge lasts all 31 days of October and happens…
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Year in Review: 2019
The closing of a year gives us the opportunity to remember and reflect on the last 365 days. What seemed like a trying and challenging year, was filled with so many amazing opportunities and areas of growth. Enjoy this video that I put together reviewing this past year! New Art…
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Year in Review: 2018
What an incredible year it has been this year! Here’s some highlights from 2018. New Art Works The focus of the first part of the year has been researching, hiking to, and painting 50 New York Waterfalls. Other works: Winter is for the Birds: Chickadee Winter is for the Birds:…
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Inktober 2018: Recap of Week 5
I made it through all 31 days of Inktober! So proud of myself. If you’d like to look back at the drawings from each week: Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 If you’re new to what Inktober is, Inktober is a drawing challenge created by artist Jake Parker…
