#inktober - Days 14-17

Playing some catch-up today.  4 new entries, puts me at presently down by 4.  I'm pretty sure I'll make it to 31 on/before the 31st.  Though I think, I might cancel the 30 Characters Challenge in November this year.  We shall see.

These entries show another media swap-up.  I hit up the art supply store this morning and picked up two different sizes of Faber-Castell PITT Artists Brush Pens.  It still uses india ink, but it handles a bit more like a marker... so there's some more control, and less bleeding.  I also bought some better india ink, cuz the stuff I bought earlier this month I feel is not as opaque as it could be... and while that has some advantages, it isn't what I wanted it to be.  So I'll experiment with that later.  I also bought a Sharpie Water-Based White Marker, which I thought I would experiemnt with, but haven't really got the results I was hoping for... again having to do with opaque-ness.  I've had better luck with White-Out in the past (and it was cheaper).

Let the painting begin!

Okay, technically this painting began...  FEBRUARY of 2009!!!   Nearly 2 years ago.  But I've been busy, I moved, and the painting was buried in the "studio" for the past year and some change.  My girlfriend had me start this to get me to be more artsy, but it fell by the wayside.

But in an effort to get more creative, we finally got around to get the "studio" to be more studio-esque, and less like Matt Paxton's day job, so now I can attempt to get it done!  She's requested I finish it by her birthday, April 1st.  So we shall see.  The important thing is that it's now on an easel, and not buried under other art projects shoved behind boxes, behind a door, and then barricaded.   Now I can begin painting!