8 Days

October means #Inktober for a lot of artists around the world. 
For me, last year, it meant getting a week into the challenge of creating a 100% ink work everyday for a month and getting white-washed with a bit of a life tsunami. 
This year, the pressure's off. 

I don't feel like I "have" to do anything. But I want to. I want to take the time to create with no stress, no expectations. Just a page in a sketchbook. It might be a vista that's before my eyes, or a thought that's in my head. It might be something I've done or seen that day. Whatever the subject matter, I'm using this Inktober to set myself up for a really empowering, creative, daily self-care ritual. 

Making pictures, using colour, brushes, pens, my hand and my eyes and my heart, really really matters to me. 

I need my studio time to recover from my people time. It's almost a meditation; there isn't anything else going on just then but me and my little sketchbook and the wind and the view from the studio window. 

​The following is my Inktober Sketchbook so far. Hope you like it. :) xx

Check out the founder/inventor of Inktober here for more information about it and it's origins. And for some seriously awesome art, too.