#InkTober Day 7 ~Cuddlers Cats

5.5x8.5 watercolor and ink using black Tombow brush pen on Bienfang for mixed media sketchbook done for day 7 of the popular #InkTober challenge.  With this work in progress now finished of Jess Shippee's two cats cuddling in bed, I've added watercolor to the former white paper areas left blank.  The black is actual Tombow pen with only a small amount of water on my script liner/rigger #1 brush.  The calico does not look happy, almost as if she wants the grey kitty to move on out.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

#InkTober day 5 ~ Lipsticks

5.5x8.5 watercolor and ink line using Pigma Micron 01 pen on Bienfang for mixed media sketchbook.  This was done for day 5 of #InkTober.  Each day of October artists pledge to do a work using ink in some form.  Since no one loves lipstick more than I, this subject was an easy one in favorite copper, red, and dark pink colors.  Metal was made to look like chrome by not painting the areas.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

Wild Horses ~ #InkTober 2nd day

6x12 Tombow black brush pen and India ink on Strathmore 140 lb paper done today; sketch was with the brush pen.  I added water to the pen lines then put drops of India ink by Higgins into the wet areas, blending with #8 round brush.  It is for the second day of #InkTober, a worldwide challenge to all artists to use ink in some form (there are many different kinds) and create a painting or sketch each day of the month of October.  Tomorrow I may post one in alcohol inks.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

Black Cat Halloween - #InkTober

12x9 mixed media collage on Cheap Joe's sketchbook (watercolor and ink with Pigma Micron 01 pen) begun yesterday and finished today.  Top part is a black and white photocopy of my photo taken of golf pro Al's kitty Blackie.  They live at Pinon Park condos by our place in Ruidoso NM.  After printing, I cut her out and collaged onto paper using matte medium.  Bottom part and text is ink and watercolor for #InkTober, various candies and pumpkins.  I sketched one of my three mice figurines for lower right and he is talking to Blackie trying to get her to pay attention to the candy corn.  You can see some small bits of gravel between the cat's front paws and I have sketched them on out, spilling into the candy pieces.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith.

Yellow Lab Snooze plus ink sketch #InkTober

8.5x5.5 watercolor and ink (Micron 01) on paper done today.  Please excuse the iPhone photo on the ink sketch that I've included for #InkTober challenge.
Image COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2015.

Buff Cochin Bantam Rooster plus an ink sketch for #InkTober

 9x12 watercolor done today on 140 lb cold press paper, as part of current monthly Watermedia challenge on WetCanvas.  Photo courtesy of Kara, the host, and this is her rooster.

Ink sketch of two pronghorn antelope seen out in west Texas using Pitt pens on sketchbook paper for #InkTober worldwide challenge in which artists must do a work in ink once a day for all of October.
Images COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith.