Inktober #4 - #6

I finally got some time to do a some more Inktober sketches. It's challenging to find a few minutes of the day to doodle, but I'm determined to fill up my little sketchbook with my botanical studies. The latest offerings include tiny mottlegill mushrooms and woodland sorrel, autumnal leaves and miniature acorns, and a quick sketch to capture the everlasting beauty of the cherry blossom or sakura.  

Inktober #2 & #3

My next offering for Inktober is of the floral variety; buttercups 'Ranunculus' and alpine forget-me-not 'Myosotis alpestris'.  Two of my favourite wildflowers now illustrated and painted in my notebook, and preserved in a different manner than my usual eco resin method. Still equally as enjoyable. I'm thinking of my next drawing already, and my mind is wandering to mushrooms once more...

Inktober #1

Drawing and painting seems like a long distant memory to me now. I use to fill my childhood days with watercolour painting and sketching, and amassed a huge collection of notebooks and canvases, which are now forgotten artefacts inhabiting my wardrobe and under my bed. 

I always wanted to return to it at some stage, but life and my business inevitably stole the limelight. As Inktober has officially begun, I decided to set myself a challenge, and sneak in half an hour a day to sketch and paint little pictures of forest finds. My first crisp white page debuted a fairytale toadstool that goes by the name of Amanita Muscaria or Fly Agaric. I actually really enjoyed the task and found it therapeutic and it calmed my busy mind. I'm already looking forward to the next page.