Inktober 2021

Last year my son and I did this pretty much for our own amusement. Though I did post my efforts on this blog in lumps of 10 here, here and here. 

I decided to go for it this year, and have posted each day on Instagram. I’ve also collected all 31 drawings in a little flipbook for your amusement.

I’ve been quite pleased with the results, and its been an opportunity to try different pens and brushes and various styles/techniques. It has also coincided with a class where we’ve been looking at Rembrandt. So this has also been an opportunity to explore his chiaroscuro approach to etching through pen-and-ink drawing.

Compass

 

It's Inktober time again, so I've been doing ink drawings and posting them over on instagram. I did a drawing of praying hands for "Compass" as in Moral Compass, which we seem to have lost. I decided to use the drawing as the basis for a print cuz you know, Durer and stuff. Also in a couple weeks there's a "sustainability" event at a local church. So if I can get a portable press made, I'll take this along and print it there.

I've decided I'll post all the Inktober drawings in a lump at the end of the month.

Dance of Death first proof

 

Tried this out on wallpaper, so the black is a bit salty but I'm happy with this arrangement of the 13 blocks. I just need to get some big sheets of decent smooth paper and I'm good to go.

Iceberg revisited

I had the idea recently of printing all the “Dance of Death” postcards on to a single sheet. Now that I have the etching press this seems possible. But I felt that the “I am an Iceberg” print was weaker than the others – the arms just don’t work right. So I’ve decided to do another version for the portmanteau printing. 

I’ve gone for a more close-up and intimate death this time. Now I’ve got to work out how to fit all 13 together.