You may recall that last year I took the popular art challenge #inktober and altered it slightly into #printinktober.
But, in case you don't recall, #inktober is a month-long challenge that was started by illustrator and cartoonist Jake Parker. In essentials, you are encouraged to create an ink drawing each day in October. Here's a video about it that he put together:
Each year he releases a series of prompts, which you are welcome to adhere to or not. This is the list of prompts for this year:
I’ve participated in the #inktober challenge twice before – both times focusing on lettering and not adhering to any prompts. See a blog post about it from 2014, and from 2015.
I like to use challenges to help me towards personal art goals. At the time, I wanted to improve my lettering skills. Creating a piece of lettering every single day for 31 days definitely made me faster and better at lettering.
Last year I decided to create a new spin on the challenge and created #PrintInktober. I used printing ink and stamping ink rather than drawing ink, but my goal was to create a stamped print every day of October. The goal was to get my stamps out of storage and into play! I used a mixture of hand carved stamps…
…and store bought stamps:
This year I'll be doing it again and posting on instagram under the hashtag #printinktober and if you’d like to play along, you are welcome to!
GUIDELINES:
- Create and post one print each day in October. (But remember: nobody cares if you don't actually do it every day. 1 day is better than none!)
- Use the hashtag #printinktober when you post.
- Any stamp can be used – foam, wood, silicone, rubber, hand carved, lino, whatever you want!
- Any ink can be used – screenprinting ink, marker ink, stamping ink, printing ink, etc.
- You can use the official inktober prompts, if you'd like. Or not.
- Have fun and don’t worry if you miss a day (or more). The point of the challenge is to get those stamps out of storage and into use!!
I hope you'll join me! I put together a cute little video about the challenge:
Thanks for stopping by!
Julie you are amazing. I don’t know where you find the time to do all of this and with the baby coming in November. I would think each ink you do during October would be a countdown to the big day!
Julie you are amazing. I don’t know where you find the time to do all of this and with the baby coming in November. I would think each ink you do during October would be a countdown to the big day!
Julie you are amazing. I don’t know where you find the time to do all of this and with the baby coming in November. I would think each ink you do during October would be a countdown to the big day!
Julie you are amazing. I don’t know where you find the time to do all of this and with the baby coming in November. I would think each ink you do during October would be a countdown to the big day!
Julie you are amazing. I don’t know where you find the time to do all of this and with the baby coming in November. I would think each ink you do during October would be a countdown to the big day!
Julie you are amazing. I don’t know where you find the time to do all of this and with the baby coming in November. I would think each ink you do during October would be a countdown to the big day!
Julie you are amazing. I don’t know where you find the time to do all of this and with the baby coming in November. I would think each ink you do during October would be a countdown to the big day!
LOL! Thats very sweet of you, Mary! Im more worried about moving in the middle of all the printing, but Im determined to make it work (and give myself some grace, if it doesnt)!
LOL! Thats very sweet of you, Mary! Im more worried about moving in the middle of all the printing, but Im determined to make it work (and give myself some grace, if it doesnt)!
LOL! Thats very sweet of you, Mary! Im more worried about moving in the middle of all the printing, but Im determined to make it work (and give myself some grace, if it doesnt)!
LOL! Thats very sweet of you, Mary! Im more worried about moving in the middle of all the printing, but Im determined to make it work (and give myself some grace, if it doesnt)!
LOL! Thats very sweet of you, Mary! Im more worried about moving in the middle of all the printing, but Im determined to make it work (and give myself some grace, if it doesnt)!
LOL! Thats very sweet of you, Mary! Im more worried about moving in the middle of all the printing, but Im determined to make it work (and give myself some grace, if it doesnt)!
LOL! Thats very sweet of you, Mary! Im more worried about moving in the middle of all the printing, but Im determined to make it work (and give myself some grace, if it doesnt)!