Inktober 2021: Days 1-9

Inktober comes but once a year, and it is a lot of fun, too. Ink is the focal point – drawing with it, shading with it. Not only is black ink used, but so is colored. It’s a great time to sit down and just draw with ink, or, what I always do, is to draw from a given prompt.

If you go to Instagram and type in #inktober2021, you can find all sorts of responses to the prompts. People are amazingly creative! Sometimes I feel a bit prosaic and dull, but that varies from drawing to drawing, of course.

1: Crystal

2. Suit – as in Law Suit

3. Vessel

4. Knot

5. Raven

6. Spirit

7. Fan

8. Watch

9. Pressure

If you want to see what I added below the images on my painting-drawing blog, head over to Journey By Paper to see more, or my Instagram account. At Journey By Paper you can enjoy boring commentary or doggerel by yours truly, others, as well as good poetry and song.

8: Watch (Inktober 2021)

Pugsley the Watch Dog

Pugsley the Dog,

Drunk in a fog,

Got busted again,

“Watches for gin!”

Down at the station

With short-lived elation

He offered a few

With hopes for a brew.

“My elbow and wig!”

Cried cops with a jig

“We’ve caught ourselves a thief!”

Pugsley’s hopes came to grief.

Into a cell

At the toll of the bell

The Watch Dog was led

As guilty he pled.

No more do we

As honest and free

Need fear this mighty thug –

The world’s most dangerous pug!

7. Fan (Inktober 2021)

At first, I thought of a simple fan, held in the hand and used for fanning, or being coy in earlier times. I think there is even a “language of fans” – but I could be wrong.

And then I looked up. Living where we do, ceiling fans add a lot to one’s comfort in a hot house. If nothing else, here is an ode to my ceiling fans!