Ranarh's Art Blog

When I have some time to spare I like to create very small pieces, just to paint, without them being particularly well thought-out; often inspired by whatever media I am consuming at the time - in these pieces you will find a lot of GRIS inspired ones, for example. My go-to medium for them is ink, that I started using because of the Inktober challenge and have become rather comfortable with. To not overthink matters I tend to use leftover papers, not all of which are suited that well; these are torn from a colouring block that well-meaning people gave me for a birthday once. So most have a serrated edges from their perforation, some I cut to proper square format (don't you hate it when they give the paper format without the perforation, you think, 'nice, it's square', and then you tear them out of the spiral block and end up with a just-so-not-square-any more sheet? Maddening). At least there are many of them, I am still making my way through the second block; they buck...

The Inktober challenge was one of, or even the, first challenges I ever did in 2017 after having observed it for a while. During my blog hiatus, I still worked on it when I could. I enjoy sticking to the official prompt lists, which to me is the actual challenge and the most useful part, to learn to depict things that would not normally come up when working just by oneself. For purchases, contact me or visit my Etsy shop (which doesn't list all of the unsold pieces, sorry): https://www.etsy.com/shop/JSLArtShop Already sold pieces are indicated by the red dot. All images in larger size on Artstation My contributions from 2019 . All of them are on 17×25cm Bristol carton and typically done with either pens or brushwork; some use collage as well, one was stabbed, another cut to pieces and then re-assembled. All images in larger size on Artstation During Inktober 2020 I made no guidelines whatsoever and drew whatever I liked, with formats and materials as I saw fit that day; the brown ...