Continuous line is coming along, and I am learning a lot that I never suspected – like, you really need to plan out where your start and stopping points will be and how you want to create textures, or not.

These do not land in order:

• Toad
• Bounce
• Fortune (Warren Buffet) – this is when I began to realize I am getting somewhere with this
• Wander – woo hoo, Bilbo and Frodo’s hobbit house – where all epic journeys begin
• Spicy – my Bendi when he met the new puppy a couple of weeks ago
• Rise – See below
• Castle – Warrick Castle, England – the first castle I ever met in person and the awe is still there

Rise – the image in the upper right below – this is my annual commemorative drawing of my brother who passed away at this time in 2020. Smack during covid and we could not even travel for a funeral.

“Hope rises like a Phoenix from the ashes of shattered dreams.” – S. A. Sachs
Thinking of all the losses many of us have suffered in the past 3 years. Inktober is firmly linked with a consuming devastation and the climb back out of that dark place, until hope could catch me once again and carry me up – away from it’s grip.