Another Inktober drawing, this one using mostly India ink on Khadi paper. I bought a bottle of Higgins ink in brown, and it was a nice change from black and white. I ended up using Bombay inks to add some color.
10″x14″, ink on Khadi paper
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.
More grackles. They’re so expressive.
12″x18″, India ink on Khadi smooth watercolor paper
I purposefully held back on this one. If I did this again, I’d probably spend more time on the plants (yellow pond lily or Spatterdock). I don’t think I’d add linework but would use more layering. I’d like to think I used restraint for once, but I think it’s more honest to say I wasn’t certain what to do so I stopped. In the end, it has a rather print-like feeling.
10″x14″, India ink on Khadi watercolor paper