Art process

    Continue my Inktober2026 challenge with SMACK topic.     Most of prompts are really compecated to even make any associations with them.     What are your associations with 'SMACK'? Check my diary for other inktober2026 prompts: #cactus #miniature   #relic #apple

Cactus for Inktober2026 Day 4 Not sure I have progress. But think keep doing still make sense. Let's check later how it looks like whithin whole marathone. Here are other day challenges: Day 1 Inktober2026apple Day 2 Inktober2026relic Day 3 Inktober2026miniature Day 5: Inktober2026smack

     I've chosen to draw jewellery for 'miniature' topic for inktober as jewellery associates with little toys in miniature. Small-scale art was never about doing "less"—it was about packing maximum psychological weight into a confined space.      Do you feel jewellery as kind of sacred word miniature or have another associations? Here are the other parts of challenge: Inktober 2026 Day 1: Apple Day 2: Relic Day 4: Cactus Day 5: Smack

Inktober2026. Day 2. Relic. Never thought precisely how knight glow looks in details. Daday I was lack to have I real glow in front of me to draw it correct. But that is my idea for given prompt. You can check how other topics go: Inktober2026: Day 1: #Apple Day 3: #miniature Day 4: #cactus Day 5: #smack

This year starting Inktober marathone. Actually I have in mind to make a pattern of it Now it can be technically vertically endles.   Check next steps: Inktober2026: Day 2: #relic Day 3: #miniature Day 4: #cactus Day 5 : #smack Fell free to download .svg version from Adobe Stock 

  Our first task on 'fine arts' studies was self portrait. Nowaday people comfortable by making selfies in front of camera. But I felt bunch of shame. Like that task breaks my personal boudaries. Beyond the Screen: Why the Mirror Demands More Than the Selfie We live in an era of hyper-visibility. At any moment, we can summon a polished, filtered version of ourselves with a tap of a screen. Selfies are instantaneous, curated, and frictionless. But when I hand an incoming fine arts student a small handheld mirror and ask them to translate their reflection onto paper or canvas using charcoal or paint, a collective tension settles over the studio. The shoulders tense. The room goes quiet. Suddenly, the effortless confidence of digital self-presentation shatters against the heavy reality of raw observation. The Vulnerability of True Seeing As an instructor, I often witness a profound psychological shift during this first assignment. In The Courage to Teach , Parker Palmer writes abo...