Now that I’m finished with InkTober 2017, I need to figure out what I’m going to do to occupy my time. Last year, I worked on teaching myself to draw better, which I believe paid off in this year’s challenge. What feels like the right direction for me this year, is revisiting the colourful geometric art I enjoyed creating in the past. What I created then ranged from simple shapes with basic colour to intricately combined lines with bright bold colour palettes.
In recent years, as I’ve searched for my artistic style, the geometric pieces I created keep surfacing in my thoughts. Because these thoughts are so persistent, I intend to use this style as a base. To this base, I will add the different artistic methods I’ve taught myself over the last four years as I’ve sought creative ways to cope with my illness. I’ll also make use of any new skills I pick up as I go along.
I’m looking forward to the new things I’ll create with old-established methods.
If you participated in InkTober 2017, what are you going to do now that it’s over?
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- Blue-Green Ovals – 2006
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- Bright Bars – 2006
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- Circled Brightness – 2006
My Small Surrenders 
I love these, especially circled brightness. I did Inktober this year but now that it’s over I am going to just relax until 2018 and do random doodles.
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Thank you 🙂
It’s something I really enjoyed doing in the past and for some reason put aside, but I have some ideas I want to try out.
Rest and relaxation is always a good idea.
I won’t be posting every day now that the challenge is over, but I will be writing and working on art in the background because they do help me cope with my daily pain.
I’ll also be continuing with treatments for my illness, which are nowhere near as fun as InkTober was 😉
I look forward to seeing your new pieces 💛
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Art and creativity are amazing sources of inner strength, they can’t cure what ails you but they have helped me cope with my mental health issues massively.
Good luck with your treatment and I hope you find some peace in between
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They have been great tools for coping for me in recent years, as they were in the past.
Thanks for the support 🙂
I hope your practice continues to help you with the challenges you may face in your life 💛
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There are art challenges for every month! But I’m working on expressions and anatomy. There’s always something more to learn with drawing, but you need time to assimilate it too. From the other comments it looks like there’s pictures to go with this post. So I am going to reload…
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These are wonderful! I’m a big fan of geometric art, especially highly structured and stylised art. Maybe you could start with studies of artists and then create your own inspired pieces? My favourite series are the Mondrian apple tree series where an apple tree is increasingly abstracted, but still recognisable. What’s yours?
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Thank you 🙂
Thanks for the suggestion on how to grow my creative practice. I have a book on colour theory that has some interesting modules I may try out.
One of my favourite geometric artists is Josef Albers. His book ‘Interaction of Color’ is basically the bible of colour theory. His work appears quite simple yet it is so precise and colourful one could spend hours looking at a piece.
I also really love Mark Rothko’s work, although he never classified his own work under any specific style.
I recently started collecting art created by a young artist whose pieces are very bold. Her name is Paula del Rivero. Take a look at her work and let me know what you think.
Eloise Renouf also creates interesting geometric pieces.
I found a website a while back, geoform.net, that features geometric abstract work. If you’re looking for new artists to follow or inspiration you should check it out 🙂
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