18″x24″ India ink on canvas board
I hemmed and hawed about how much color to use, and in the end I threw caution to the wind and jumped in with the Bombay India inks and a brush. This was an absorbing project that lasted a week.
For the record, my blog program now offers options to generate text and photos with A.I. This is something I’ll never do.
18″x24″, ink on gessoed canvas board
October rolled around, and I set down my oil pastels and picked up my Indigraph fountain pen. But first, I put on two more coats of gesso on this canvas board and a generous amount of ink that created a very active background. I decided to use reds and yellows with a hint of blue to create an analogous color scheme of orange, plum, and red. I’m a little intimidated by the size, but so far, this has been super fun.
16″x12″, India ink on Khadi paper
I’ve tried to capture these grain silos before, and I’m happy enough with this effort,
8″x10″, oil pastel on prepped wooden panel
A very bright sky and foreground and some interesting, semi-circular barns. I prepped the wooden panel with two coats of Gac 100 by Golden as a sealant and then two coats of gesso, leaving brushmarks. The buildings created the composition, so I felt like all I had to do was capture it.