Inktober 2022 - Day 23 Still Life

 Today was one of those rainy, damp days that I really didn't want to go out. So instead I did my Inktober sketch from a still life I set up on my table. I used an orange micron pen, my Lamy pen with Noodler's brown ink, and acrylic inks.

Yesterday after I sketched the Mineola Diner in my sketchbook I also did a quick watercolor and ink sketch of it. This is postcard sized so it is going out with my other postcards to the troops. I'm mailing out a batch of 17 postcards to Mary Jo tomorrow so that she has them in time to send them. 

Inktober 2022 - Day 22 - Mineola Diner & Extra Paintings

 Today my friend, Suzala and I wracked our brains for someplace different to sketch. We ended up going to Mineola were there was an iconic looking diner, complete with a big neon sign. We ended up sitting diagonally across on the opposite coner from it. It is located at a busy intersection and that gave us at least a view that didn't have stopped vehicles right in front of us. Here is my Day 22 sketch. The only part that isn't ink are the wider red areas. I did those in watercolor.

A few weeks ago one of my art organizations had our monthly meeting and then we created small 4 x 6 paintings that could be mounted on 5 x 7 cards to be used as thank you cards or sympathy cards by the organization. We worked in whatever our chosen media was. I worked from photos on my phone. Here are the two that I created.