Moynahan Studio: inktober

Saturday, October 27, 2018

Painting & Sketching In A World Where There Are Octobers

October is a favourite month of mine. The colours of the trees changing, birds migrating, sweaters needed and hats and mittens taken out of storage. Here is a brief summary of some of my October art encounters and activities.

Artist Talk

I love exploring new art techniques and learning about and meeting other artists. One "artist encounter" that I enjoyed in the month of October was an artist talk given by Brian Turner at the general meeting of ArtEast in Orleans. Brian works in watercolour and he also teaches an 8 week watercolor class through the Kanata Art Club website for details (www.artforall.ca)

Brian Turner gave an artist talk on composition at the ArtEast General Meeting

Saturday, October 3, 2015

Inktober: 31 Days. 31 Drawings

Having recently purchased my first noodler's fountain pen (and blogged about it here) I am excited to take on the challenge of Inktober: 31 days - 31 ink drawings in the month of October.

Inktober was created by Jake Parker http://mrjakeparker.com/ (aka agent 44)

Jake is an illustrator based in Utah. For the last 15 years he has worked on everything from animated films to comics to picture books. He has lived in six states, working at the best studios with the most amazing and talented people in the country. Now he freelances out of his home studio.

Jake's sketchbook, drawn from Feb 2015 - July 2015 is featured in the video below.

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/jakeparker44

Jake's Recommended Inking Tools

Get details on all 9 here: http://mrjakeparker.com/inktober

My Tools for #Inktober

My inking tools

I have decided to stick with my Canadian exclusive noodler's Raven Black ink despite the fact that using it in my Strathmore sketchbook (with 100% cotton paper) hasn't been working out all that well for me ( at least not as well as the beautiful Lexington grey that I only ordered a sample of.....sigh)

It is the most beautiful black when you compare it to other inks, I just really need an ink that dries faster and is waterproof (like Lexington grey). So I will adjust my sketching style to accommodate the ink's properties and see what happens?

FYI: On the naming of the noodler ink: ""A large Northern Raven – solitary and mysterious as is its nature, unlike crows – from an old 19th century painting – seemed the perfect label for a deeper mystery than the louder 1930s style. Only Mr. Poe and that bird would be worthy – and thus the darkest vintage period style ink that Noodler’s could make became “The Raven”

Some of My Inktober sketches

I will be using this single page to post some of my #inktober sketches to. Hope you enjoy!