F is for Forest Inchie

So.  Forest.   I immediately thought about Emily Carr, a Canadian artist who was famous for her paintings and drawings of the Canadian forest.  I first learned about her when I read The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland.  Inspired by the historical novel about Emily Carr's life I started searching out her art and really fell in love with the vibrant colors and chunky brushstrokes used to bring the forests of British Columbia to life.  Oddly, I never did read any of her writing... I need to do that.  When I visited Victoria, BC, Canada, I was disappointed to find that her home which is a museum was closed... BOTH TIMES!  But, I did get to see some of her work in person at the Royal BC Museum (which I HIGHLY recommend visiting if you are ever in Victoria, Canada.  It is an outstanding museum.)

While I don't do a lot of drawing or painting... it's not really my strong point, this challenge made me want to pay homage to Emily Carr with a colorful forest drawing using my new colored pencils that I've been itching to play with!  I actually did a good handful of forest drawings - you know, when it's only an inch you can be left wanting more sometimes!  Then it was hard to pick which to go with, so I just played a little more tonight and created a couple more.  I decided to go with this one because while it's not really anything like an Emily Carr painting, I like to think it has her essence with my streaky colors.  If not, we'll just pretend.

I had a lot of fun with this Every Inchie Monday, so thanks!

E is for Engrave Inchie

Well, I have to give a lot of credit to the husband for this one.  I was feeling super stumped by the 'Engrave' theme, but he immediately said, "you have to do something with a dollar bill". OF COURSE!  THAT is the number one item made via engraving in the world!  Well, paper money in general.

So, I'm back to my usual style of collage building, even though I just stocked up on pens, pencils, paints, etc.  I thought about going crazy with a lot of little pieces, but I like this.  I guess this is one bill that won't find it's way onto WheresGeorge.com, but that's okay.  It's worth it!  Oh, and I'm actually posting my Every Inchie Monday TIMELY!!!

E is for EXPLODE Inchie

Oh boy.  I'm not doing well when I'm posting these the day before my next one is due.  I promise to do better  =)  In fact, I'm about to get started on the next one.

For explode a lot of things popped into my head.  At one point you were going to see a champagne bottle with the cork popped, then there were fireworks, but then the whole Wile E Coyote cartoon explosion popped into my head and I decided it was time to sketch a cartoon.  So I did.  I present to you, EXPLODE!

I have to say, it's funny how you don't see the million imperfections when working inside an inch, until you blow that bad boy up with your photo editing software.  YIKES!  So, maybe EXPLODE needs a little refinement, but hey, it's a cartoon.  I'm off to ponder Engrave for tomorrow's Every Inchie Monday challenge.

D is for Dark Inchie

I hope this isn't a cop out or too simple, but when I thought of dark, the first thing that popped into my head was a dark sky with stars. I couldn't get that out of my head.  I had to go with it, so I made the stars into the constellation of Libra - for myself.

I will say that after this triple play experience, I realized that my art supplies are pretty weak.  Most of my what I do have is scrapbook supplies that are packed away.  It's time for some pens, pencils, paints, etc. and time to drag out what I have and go through it! I'm getting excited about the idea of getting some new toys!

Thanks again, Every Inchie Monday.  I never need an excuse to shop, but it's still nice to have one!

D is for Dual Inchie

Dual has so many possibilities.  The weird thing was that when I thought ahead to it, all I could think of was doing a square that was half black and half white!  I dunno why.  I just could not get that out of my head.  But, once I was ready to go, I knew I wasn't going there.    Then I looked up the definition for dual.  I like to do that for inspiration sometimes.  When I read

dual (ˈdjuːəl)

adj

1. relating to or denoting two

I immediately thought about love.  Maybe it's Valentine's Day still in the air or maybe it was the excellent time I had with my husband on vacation last week, but I decided two wedding rings was the depiction of dual I wanted to go with.

Happy belated Valentine's Day to my Every Inchie Monday friends!

C is for Chocolate Inchie

OH, better late than never.  Next time I need to work ahead when I'm going on vacation so I don't get so behind.  I had a lot of ideas about "chocolate".  I kind of just wanted to create a "piece of chocolate" like you'd find in a box from See's or something, but I could never find the materials I had in mind.  Then I thought of drawing a box of chocolates and lamented not owning a set of colored pencils... THOSE are on my wishlist now.  I guess I need a trip to Michaels!  Eventually, I thought about all of this old leftover Halloween candy I had and came up with the bright idea to use the wrappers to create another type of collage.  You know I like those collages!  So, here it is.  Can you read it?

Inspiration by Every Inchie Monday

C is for Cathedral Inchie

So, this was hard!  But after consideration and since I just finished reading the Tiffany Glass Co story, I decided a stained glass window would be my cathedral concept.  I had it in my head to do a glass painting to mimic an actual stained glass window.  I used to do a lot of glass painting a million years ago... or well, 30 years ago.  Then I realized that would cost a lot for the supplies for one single inch, so I decided to do a drawing as my "sample" and then decide how I wanted to proceed.  Well, once I finished my sample, I decided it would work just as is!  I drew it, inked it with highlighters and sharpies, then covered the whole thing with nail polish to make it shiny.  The picture doesn't really show the shine, but I'm happy with this result and I'm loving that every inchie I've done so far has been totally different than any of the others.  Don't know how long I can keep that up... we'll see!

As always, thank you Every Inchie Monday for the inspiration to create.