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Inktober day 14
Today’s prompt roam had me thinking of a hiker in the woods again, I decided to do that with a Halloween twist. My figure is a lonely spirit roaming down a spooky path as a raven looks on from his… Continue reading
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Inktober day 13
Today I broke out the pink ink for the horizon prompt for inktober. I thought it was fitting for my sunrise over Lake St Clair. But sailors better take warning with all that red in the sky. I took today’s… Continue reading
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Inktober day 12
Today’s prompt of remote conjured an image of a secluded lake. I decided that I wanted to do the sketch and then go over it with watercolor later, so I chose to do it on my watercolor paper. Unfortunately the… Continue reading
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Inktober day 7
Today’s Inktober prompt had me stumped for most of the day before I thought of this idea after our art club meeting. My photos for the cancer society challenge came quite easily today. First I took pictures of the leaf… Continue reading
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Inktober day 5
Today’s Inktober promo was Binoculars. Binoculars always make me think of my grandfather. He kept them next to his La-z-boy chair in front of the picture window looking out at Breevort Lake. I don’t have any pictures of his binoculars… Continue reading
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Inktober Day 3
Today is day three of the Inktober challenge as well as the photo a day for the American Cancer Society. For Inktober, I started sketching these old boots while waiting for my son’s school bus. I was actually thinking originally… Continue reading
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Inktober day 2
Today the Inktober prompt was ‘discover.’ walking with my son in the mornings we always are looking out for our slug friends who are enjoying the cooler, damp fall mornings we’ve been having. Today for my photo-a-day for the American… Continue reading
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Paint-out at Belle Isle
The weather cooperated nicely for today’s Paint-out at Belle Isle. It turns out the Aquarium is closed on Wednesdays, so we met up at the Koi pond instead. The benches nearby gave us a nice vantage point to paint both… Continue reading
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Detroit zoo paintout
Today was the first of our summer paint-outs with the Lakeside Palette Club. We met at the zoo’s fountain and started by sketching there together before branching out on our own and meeting back up for pizza at Buddy’s. There… Continue reading
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More charcoal
Tonight I decided to play around with my charcoals a little more and opted to do a self-portrait to practice drawing faces. I think it looks like me, but I’ll wait to see what my family thinks. They are often… Continue reading







