Inktober, a complementary Trio IIDSSM

I remember my teachers commenting during life drawing classes about my use of color via my beloved Art Stix. I always got a reaction for walking off the beaten path. I thought it would be cool to go the same way for Inktober, rebel that I am.

Day One: no prompt

This is my first year taking on Inktober, staying up to date until day 9 and now I find myself playing catch up. When I made this watercolor decorated with Zentangle patterns, I had no clue about the prompts. I wanted to harness the power of the complementary pair: red and green. I mixed them together to make muted colors, blocking out areas in a more contrasted way. I made sure to leave a lot of breathing spaces and as a result, it’s doesn’t look like I’m trying too hard but it could no doubt use a few more areas of motif.

Day 4: drooling

I bet you expected day two here but being that I had Instagram in mind, I worked these three as the right column of 9 panels. I am very proud of the mixed media effect here, cutting out the character from a children’s book. It is fun to repurpose a precious object like this and I bet some would be aghast as I am tearing it to shreds. The complementary duo, yellow and purple, share the picture plane where the former creates atmosphere and the latter separates the land into little islands; but also cools down the piece.

Day 7: Precious

Shaolin comes to mind with orange and blue. I used gouache over the watercolor to give the central orange triangle a louder voice. I was using the accidental texture of a cellophane technique which by now had dried, to invent gem-like shapes with my fine liner. I was at the beach and a goose was right in front of me, remaining very still. I decided to sketch it hastily when someone walked over carelessly 25 seconds in which made me so mad. You should have seen me walk circles around the other geese in order to commit the perspective to memory and finish the drawing. That’s the thing with ink, you only get one chance.

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The Art Stix I refer to are from Prismacolor and the gouache is an old Caran D’Ache set.