The End of Inktober with a Double Pinch of Scribble Picnic

Inktober comes to an end today.  I have enjoyed doing this daily challenge but I'm looking forward to getting back to using different art supplies again.  I know HWNSNBP is also looking forward to getting some of these art supplies off the dining room table as I've taken advantage and spread my "stuff" out, but now it's time to get things in order for the holidays.  Oh, I can't believe tomorrow will be November already.  

Day 26 - STRETCH

Some neon rubber bands.

Day 27 - THUNDER

Or in this case, Thunderbird.

Day 28 - GIFT

Should be self-explanatory I hope.

Day 29 - DOUBLE

And here is my entry for Scribble Picnic this week which also is DOUBLE (or JOLT).  I recently saw a photo of a castle in France that had the facade painted incorporating these pixellated 3-story skulls in very vibrant colors.  The rest was covered in polka dots.  Very bizarre, yet beautiful.  The windows were eyes.  So since the prompt was DOUBLE I used facing pages for these double skulls.  Fits the season - no?

Day 30 - JOLT (off prompt)

Instead a rendition of some sort of moss that was on a rock bordering one of our plantings. HWNSNBP told me to come outside with my camera to see something which turned out to be mushrooms that were growing in the garden bed on the side of the garage that resembled penises.  This is not the first time that we've had these in the yard, but these appeared to be a different variety. And although I did take a picture of them, my eye was drawn to this moss (or it could be a lichen - not sure) that was growing on the rock.  There were several patches of it and the closer I looked the more interesting it was.  So this is what I have for this date.

Day 31 - SLICE

One of the local bistro's was offering plain pizzas for $5 today as a Halloween special so pizza slice was on my mind.  But I wanted to somehow fit Halloween into this and went with a tangled pumpkin of sorts, which if you notice does have 8 slices like a pizza would, but don't look too closely or you will see the mistake that I made coloring it.

I hope that you enjoyed viewing these Inktober pieces.  I feel a sense of accomplishment having completed the whole month, but like I said at the start, I will be glad to be able to have more choice of the media to use and also to work at my leisure.  There's always so much that I want to do but the drawback is the limited amount of creative time that I have.  I was contemplating another challenge for the beginning of November (a 10-day Square-a-Thon on Instagram) but think I will pass so I can make sure that I'm on track for a more enjoyable December coming up.

Now I will ask you to join me in checking out the other entries at the picnic this week.  You can by clicking here.  The next theme will be FOREST due on November 11th should you like to join in.

Inktober 2018 Days 18-25

Day 18 - BOTTLE

My new bottle of pink sea salt.

Day 19 - SCORCHED (off prompt)

Maybe some rainbow butterflies instead.

Day 20 - BREAKABLE

That beak could break a lot of things I'm sure.

Day 21 - DRAIN

Don't get your finger caught in this tangled drain.

Day 22 - EXPENSIVE

I recently saw this beautiful tile floor in an article on the internet.  I believe this would be very expensive.

Day 23 - MUDDY

Inspired by a picture I took of my son's muddy boots. 

Day 24 - CHOP (off prompt)

Instead some tangled chains.

Day 25 - PRICKLY

I think these would be very prickly plants.

Inktober 2018 Days 4-17

My camera/phone is being a pain in the neck lately.  Or maybe it's my computer.  In any case, when I go to download my photos, it picks and chooses which, if any it's going to transfer to the computer.  The only way I've found around this is to duplicate each photo and then the darn thing imports both.  So there's a lot of duplicating and deleting going on.   

Sorry for this long, photo heavy post.  I'll try to break up the rest of the month in smaller posts.

Day 4 - SPELL 

Hocus Pocus (I'm really liking that font. Need more practice.)

Day 5 - CHICKEN

I saw this garden rooster (in color) for sale on Wayfair.  Too bad they wanted $249 for it!

Day 6 - DROOLING (off prompt) 

 2 colors, 2 shapes, 2 lines

Day 7 - EXHAUSTED

Ball point pens tried to achieve the transparency of the leaves.

Day 8 - STAR

Inspired by the song from Sly and the Family Stone - Everybody is a Star

Day 9 - PRECIOUS (off prompt)

I may go back and watercolor this and the rooster.

Day 10 - FLOWING

This is the wind map of Hurricane Florence showing the directional flow and intensity of the winds.

Day 11 - CRUEL (off prompt)

This was inspired by the needlework art of Vera Shimunia.  

Day 12 - WHALE

This puffin is whale watching from the rocks.

Day 13 - GUARDED (off prompt)

Inspired by the dahlias that HWNSNBP has grown this summer and are now fully in bloom.

Day 14 - CLOCK

My grandparents, who lived downstairs from us when I was a child, had an anniversary clock on top of their TV console which always fascinated me.

Day 15 - WEAK (off prompt)

Don't you just love magenta red trees in the fall!

Day 16 - ANGULAR

This maple leave is very angular I think.

Day 17 - SWOLLEN

This Cianti bottle is swollen with colorful wax reminiscent of Italian restaurant decor of long ago.

Inktober/Scribble Picnic

I'm including my Scribble Picnic Chicken in this post introducing my Inktober for 2018.  (Picnicker's - if you want to scroll to the end, feel free.)  

I was reading a post on a blog recently where the author had done a review of a product called Zen Pink Pig Sketchbooks.  The review was good and those pigs on the inside tissue liner were a big selling point for me.  Don't they look like they're flying?  So I partook of some retail therapy and ordered myself this little sketchbook with a royal blue handmade paper-covered cover from Amazon and it came just in time for me to use for Inktober as there are more than enough sheets in there for the entire month.  

I'm not committing to following the prompts for Inktober.  It's nice to have them, but I'm choosing to be flexible about it.  If an idea comes easy enough for the prompt I'll use it, otherwise I'm going to rely on whatever comes easily to me.  

On Day 1 I made reference to some of the names that are currently flying around about October.  The tv weatherman that we watch has also given it the moniker of Warmtober because we're experiencing unusually warm temps.  

Day 2 - Tranquil

We probably did our last fishing from the dock last Saturday and the water there was the inspiration for this.  Even though there are people around us, there is a tranquility in standing with the fishing rod in your hand, the light wind blowing in your face, and watching the bobber pitch and bob with the waves.  It's almost mesmerizing to see the fractals the water makes.  I'll miss it until next summer.   

Day 3 - Roasted.

So this is where I married the challenges of Scribble Picnic Chicken and Inktober Roasted.  I suppose I could have drawn a chicken on a spit, but this chicken was so pretty that I didn't want to kill her.  Er, him.  Chicken to Rooster to Roasted - reminds me of one of those word games we used to play.  Or you could say that I'm too Chicken to Roast this Rooster.  

Time to head over to the picnic and check out all the other chicks, er CHICKENS.  Won't you join my by clicking here.  The next theme is BOTTLE and is due 10/17.  We'd love to have you play along.