Robin Moulyn's blog, Canadian Artist, acrylic painter - Robin Moulyn

last day of inktober for this year

10/31/2018

a bitter sweet day, the last day of INKTOBER. The prompts were book, emotions and chicken.

Book for me was a straight forward instruction manual book. I can never read instruction books, my dyslexia kicks in and totally runs amok when I do this, I have people read the instructions to me because of it.

Emotions was an interesting think. Sometimes I feel like I have so many emotions that it is hard to choose which one will pop up or which combination will pop up. So my steam punk robot came to my rescue to help explain how I can feel about my emotions.

Chicken, I had some help with. I didn't want to do just a robot chicken and of course this prompt came on Halloween. This has got to be my favourite one. We were in the hospital and my partner and I were waiting to see the doctor, we were stressed and trying to find distractions. This was the best distraction ever and finally we could both laugh. We even laughed out loud and could finally find light.....

This is the gift of art< mediation, joy, emotions expressed, life, laughter and on and on and on.
Thank you all for being here and sharing my drawing time with me. You all have been so supportive, it has been great fun working with all your suggested prompts. Thank you again,
end line.
strathmore tan toned paper, rotring black drawing ink, noodlers bullet proof ink, Dr. Ph Martin bombay ink, rotring white drawing ink, sakura white gel pen, Rotring Art Pen *amaziing*

inktober

10/28/2018

the prompts for these inktober posts are Euphoria, Fantasmagorical, Radiant, and Dinosaur. Again steam punk theme, so lets start. Euphoria, this is a 2 part feeling, the feeling when you have made something and it totally works, that is amazing Euphoria, the second is when I have a drink of coffee, especially in the morning, it is a hit of Euphoria, so when I translated that to a robot, it would be a hit of electricity.... Ok fantasmagorical was a tuffy, so I simply decided that my inventor would be showing off all his "made" friends and what he could do. I didn't really want him to sell any as they are his friends. Radiant.... warning bad play on words, Radio ant. that is what this is supposed to be. I don't know if I succeeded but this is inktober and sometimes not every idea works, what do you think? The easiest of the bunch was Dinosaur, this is what I would make if I was mechanically inclined and it would be toodling around my workshop helping me. As it is I have a steam punk Mr. Potato head that my son made for me who accompanies me in my studio. I like to choose my friends whom I let in my studio. Just saying.
I created these in the hospital while my partner was in there and for me this was kind of like a mental vacation, it relaxed me, we could both chat about it and use it to think about something else and not fully engage in the drama of the hospital. This is where art loves you back.

AWARDS!!!!! OMG

10/25/2018

WOW what a week. I seriously feel like crying. These gifts of recognition have made me so emotional, this has personally been very difficult but with my art.... thank you all...

inktober

10/25/2018

ok people I am coming up to the end of inktober, thank you all for hanging with me. The prompts for these images are Cat feet, Climbing, and direction.
Cat feet was a fun steampunk cat and playing with patterns. Lets talk meditating here for a moment. The more the pattern sometimes the better the art meditation, that is why so many people like working with mandalas.
For me the relaxing part all comes in the final details.Which is why I loved creating climbing. Even my husband who works in Dangerous environments said that this one is scary climbing. Ok, so who of us has not wondered how we have made it to the age we have, because I for sure have made my angles work hard to protect me.
Direction is a bitter sweet image. I had to put some of my emotions onto the paper right now. Which direction do we take, how much energy to we put into all directions or do we filter out the most important ones and follow that..... Life is full of direction and to be honest, that is part of the joy of life, making decisions and going for it.

inktober

10/22/2018

Inktober prompts were forgiveness, shadow, and love. All of these were big thinks for me. And me with such a funny mind. The first thinking and processing via drawing was forgiveness. Forgiveness for me is all about letting go and moving forward. But it is also learning from the process. So here the little robot broke something but is owning up to the accident and trying to help fix it. The second was more cartoon fun of shadow. If our shadows could help us to "lighten up" they would make a little fun of us and laugh a little. The third is kind of self explanatory and made me cry a little. Because we have all had times when we all have had this happen, it does not make it a good thing to do, but sometimes love happens like this. Though love is not always a choice thing, it is a choice to try and pull yourself out of this kind of love and to clean it up and heal.

Art award

10/22/2018

I am so honoured to receive this award, it just takes my breath away. Thank you so much.

An Unforgettable Post

10/22/2018

Dear Followers of The Unforgettable Faces Project. As you all know that I am passionate about this project. I mostly create paintings/drawings of local people that I have seen and present the the finished art either to the owner of the face or to the family as a gift. Yesterday, I found out that my lovely lady in the doorway had passed away. I am very sad to find this out, but I wish to remember her in the doorway smiling and waving a greeting to me. She was just so lovely and captivating, she touched my heart, as do all the unforgettable faces in this project. Her gift to me was her sweetness, kindness and acceptance. Please remember to embrace beauty in all times of your life.

beads

10/20/2018

thank you for letting me be a part of the group, such a privilege to share with you all and thank you for your patience with me. I love having an opportunity to share with you how art helps me live in this world.
I love this painting and I loved creating this painting. I love how the light passed over her body and reflected on her beads. I could really move into the image especially with the beads, once her beautiful face was created, I used the beads as a form of appreciation and meditation of the whole experience. Each bead was a stream of thought and a moment to reflect and find peace.
Name of painting:Beads. Medium: faber castel coloured pencil on Derwent watercolour paper for water colour pencils.
paper size A3/297 x 420. Country Ecuador.

equality and ripple

10/19/2018

the prompt words for the last 2 days have been Equality and Rippled. So the Equality prompt needs a little explanation. The robot hand is holding parts and the idea is that all these parts are equally important for the machine to work. This drawing can be simple or you can go down the philosophical road. That is why I like this drawing. Equality can be such a hot topic. So, I had a think, and decided to look at it from a point of view as the working parts of a machine but isn't it interesting that life is like that also.
The Rippled drawing is pretty self explanatory. I was thinking of all the times I spent on a wharf dropping water droplets into the flat calm water of the lake and watching it mesmerized. I would watch the little ripples roll around. I found it like another meditation, only quieter.
Materials used to create this image: Strathmore tan toned multimedia paper, Noodlers bullet proof black ink, Kor i noor grey ink, my Rotring art pens, sakura white gel pen, artline foamy felt pen.

love the animals

10/16/2018

These two paintings are where metal meets fur. The first inktober prompt here is fauna and the second is unconditional love. For me animals are it. I love them so this was an easy challenge. By the way I love the bunny ears on the robot of the first image. I am glad to do these paintings, to me they are all about love and the need to share it. So thinking in the big picture, meditation of love. This meditation drawing for me was calming, relaxing and very centring.
Materials used to create this image: Strathmore tan toned multimedia paper, Noodlers bullet proof black ink, Kor i noor grey ink, my Rotring art pens, sakura white gel pen, artline foamy felt pen.