Hello, friends. I haven’t really been online as much lately. But here is something I submitted to Ghost Gallery earlier this week for their annual miniature art show. It’s called “Saccharine,” and it’s probably one of my favorite cupcakes. I’m really pleased with how the straws came out. They’re probably my favorite part.

The mini art show at Ghost Gallery is on Nov. 9, 5-9 PM. There will be hundreds of works from artists around the globe, so you know it’s definitely going to be good!

It will also be one of the last shows at that location. Ghost Gallery is the first space I showed my art in Seattle. The owner, Laurie, was one of the first people who acknowledged me when I moved here, and some time later, I interned at Ghost for a year and a half. She has been a leader and a positive force in our art community. So, when the news was shared that the owner of the whole building plans to turn the gallery space into another apartment, it broke our collective hearts. Fortunately, the gallery will relocate. For now, we are still showing our support any way we can. This includes attending the mini art show on Thursday.

For October, I did a little something called Inktober. The rules are that the drawings are done in ink once a day, using an interpretation of the given word for that day. For example, for the first day of October 2017, the word of the day was “swift,” and my interpretation of it was a hummingbird.

I hadn’t made art for over a year, and it showed. But now I was getting used to drawing again. When I first started Inktober 2017, the drawings were more wobbly. I was clearly out of practice. Now things seem to be smoothed out a little.

My weapons of choice were Prismacolor markers and Micron pens. Line drawings are something I’ve always been drawn to, but there have also been some without the black outline. Without it, the form appears to have more depth.

Some were a little difficult to do… And others had a more poignant interpretation.

There was one instance where I bent the rules a little bit. It said that the drawings needed to be done in ink, but it did not say that it should be done exclusively in ink. For the word “blind,” the portrait of a blind-folded woman was rendered with color pencil for the skin and watercolor for the hair. I still used Micron pens for the outline.

If you want to see the full set of 31 drawings, you can visit my art’s Instagram page, @iloveronnieart.

It’s safe to say that I have started making art again!