Inktober 2025

[catbert]

22 button

 

If they had learned anything from Caspar David Friedrich, it was that a Romantic promontory was best experienced in a greatcoat.

And these were certainly great coats.

 

(for Giorgio Armani)

 

Parker 75/Lamy black, Kokuyo

[Scriptitans]

#Inktober 2025 #23 Firefly

Platinum Preppy ; Gelly Roll 10 Blanc ;
Ink Hero Black Carbon  ; Karkos Green, Oramile Yellow ;

A5 300gr Midnight Blue Paper

 

[yazeh]

Inktober - Day 23 - Firefly

 

And they sat at the edge of the forrest and watched fireflies shine their love.....

 

Background Tintenlabor Azur Noir (cat) Aprilis Argente iron gall inks.

J Herbin Bouton d'or, Corail des Tropiques, Pebeo Gold Marker and bleach. 

 

Fabriano Mixed Media Notebook. 

 

[catbert]

@Scriptitans, @yazeh Beautiful work

 

23 firefly

 

A star is just the memory of a star
We are fireflies pulsing dimly in the dark
We are here and you are where you are

 

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds — Fireflies

 

Parker 75/Lamy black, Kokuyo

 

Second attempt in colour

 

Kuretake zig 005, Sailor, Stabilo and Staedtler markers, Kokuyo

[yazeh]

45 minutes ago, catbert said:

@Scriptitans, @yazeh Beautiful work

 

So many different ways of creativity, is so refreshing. FWIW, I prefer the coloured version, I love the contrast of blue, back and yellow.

[Scriptitans]

21 hours ago, catbert said:

@Scriptitans, @yazeh Beautiful work

 

23 firefly

 

A star is just the memory of a star
We are fireflies pulsing dimly in the dark
We are here and you are where you are

 

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds — Fireflies

 

Parker 75/Lamy black, Kokuyo

 

Second attempt in colour

 

Kuretake zig 005, Sailor, Stabilo and Staedtler markers, Kokuyo

Thanks for your work @catbert 

[Scriptitans]

#Inktober 2025 #24 Rowdy

Platinum Preppy ;
Ink Hero Black Carbon ;  Karkos Red ;
Sketchbook (unbranded)

[yazeh]

Inktober 2025 - Day24 - Rowdy

Inspired by the “rowdy” Stanley Kowalski from A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), reimagined through my cat & mouse theme.

Stanley Chatowski & Blanche DuSouris

Diamine Grey
Talens Mixed Media Paper

 

[catbert]

23 hours ago, yazeh said:

So many different ways of creativity, is so refreshing. FWIW, I prefer the coloured version, I love the contrast of blue, back and yellow.

Thank you! If there's one prompt this month I'll revisit it's probably this (a version 3 already exists but it's worse).

 

Your firefly picture is absolutely beautiful — the use of white lines is especially evocative.

 

2 hours ago, Scriptitans said:

Thanks for your work @catbert 

And thank you for yours! It's brilliant.

 

(This year really has been work — I'm barely keeping up.)

 

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24 rowdy

 

To the Portuguese court, with its arcane protocols and procedures, the brash manners of the  American envoy left something to be desired. Nevertheless, João found ways to accommodate cultural differences.
Based on a true story.

 

Parker 75/Lamy black, Kokuyo
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Although ‘rowdy’ did not enter Webster’s dictionary until 1832, shortly after the reign of João, it was already in use as early as 1808. So, while Joao could not have read the word ‘rowdy’ he might have heard it from a visiting American. This line of reasoning led to a description of a diplomatic incident in Rio, c. 1810–11, when newly arrived envoys and the transplanted Portuguese court were still learning one another’s ways:

 

“It was a rule of the Court that upon the passage of the royal family bystanders should uncover, and persons on horseback should dismount. Sumter [Thomas Sumter Jr, US ambassador to the Portuguese court, 1810–19] complied to the extent of removing his hat, but refused to get off his horse. The easy-going Dom Joao was undisturbed by his breach of etiquette, but not so Dona Carlota Joaquina, his impulsive consort. On appropriate occasion she ordered the guard to oblige the American Minister and Lord Strangford, the British Minister, to dismount. They succeeded in removing the Englishman from his saddle, but Sumter drew a pair of pistols and threatened to shoot if even touched. The guards retreated, but a second and similarly unsuccessful attack was made a little later. Sumter’s attitude was considered gross disrespect by the populace, and Mrs. Sumter was stoned in public. Her assailants went unpunished, and the Princess Regent made a determined effort to obtain official satisfaction from the presumptuous minister through Dom Joao. But there was little of the tyrant in the Prince Regent, and, moreover, he was friendly to Sumter and to the United States. While our bumptious representative absented himself from Court and debated whether he should continue to defend himself or suspend his functions until the receipt of instructions from Washington, Dom Joao issued a decree exempting foreign ministers from the troublesome formality of getting out of their saddles, and only requiring them to remove their hats. In a little while the tempest subsided, and the Princess Regent became so reconciled to the situation as to stop in the course of her drives before the Minister’s home and chat with members of the Sumter family.”

 

— The American Foreign Service Journal, vol. 4, no. 12 (Dec. 1927), pp. 404–6 (PDF link)

[yazeh]

15 hours ago, catbert said:

Thank you! If there's one prompt this month I'll revisit it's probably this (a version 3 already exists but it's worse).

Funny how what we think is our worse, sometimes receives most adulation/admiration.

I'm glad you share your process. The downside of Inktober is that it's so intense, there's no feedback, brainstorming, etc. 

 

15 hours ago, catbert said:

Your firefly picture is absolutely beautiful — the use of white lines is especially evocative.

 

 

Thanks! It was an experiment of playing with different values of oxidation. THe background is high iron dark blue, the cat was high iron dark green, on blue. 

The bleach technique was messy and hard to control. So I resorted to my gold pen. I later got a white pen, to do more experimentation.

[Scriptitans]

#Inktober 2025 #25 Inferno

Platinum Preppy ; Darleston ; Brush-pen ; Brush ;
Ink : Hero Black Carbon ; Lzumink Black ; Indian Ink ; Karkos Brown, Red, Yellow ; 
Sketchbook (unbranded)

[yazeh]

Inktober - Day25 - Inferno

Cat & mouse fight forrest fires. 

Over on the mountain
Thunder magic spoke
"Let the people know my wisdom
Fill the land with smoke"

 

Creedence Clearwater Revival

 

Diamine Grey

Noodler's Apache Sunset

J herbin Corail des Tropiques, Buton d'or

 

Talens Mixed Media Notebook. 

 

[catbert]

15 hours ago, yazeh said:

Funny how what we think is our worse, sometimes receives most adulation/admiration.  

 

 

Very true.  Who are we to judge?

 

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25 inferno

 

The customs and costumes of the Portuguese court did not always transfer comfortably to the Brazilian climate.* 

 

When the king — hyperbolic as ever — griped that the throne room was an ‘inferno’ and that the chamberlain looked ready to faint or, worse, spontaneously combust, Dom Lobo was tempted to suggest João cool himself with a cup of ‘arctic’ coffee, but instead muttered something about samovars and made an excuse to withdraw.

*Historians have likened it to a ‘tropical Versailles’.

 

Kuretake zig 005, Kokuyo

[yazeh]

@catbert I think the "inferno" Versailles is @Scriptitans "rave/party".  

 

 

 

[yazeh]

Inktober 2025 - Day 26 - Puzzling

 

Mouse finds cat art puzzling.  😊

 

Tintenlabor - Echinacea/ Basalt Iron gall inks

 

[Scriptitans]

#Inktober 2025 #26 Puzzling

Platinum Preppy ; Jinhao x159 ; Jinhao 1935 ; Chouxiongluwei Italic 2.9 mm ; Brush Pen ;
Ink : Hero Black Carbon ; Ostrich Blue ; Karkos Brown, Black ; 
Sketchbook (unbranded)

[catbert]

26 puzzling

 

It may seem puzzling that João’s Romantic sensibilities expressed themselves chiefly in heavy overcoats and waistcoats inspired by northern European portraiture — garments wholly unsuited to Rio’s climate — rather than loose linens and flowing skirts in the Byronic manner.

 

João’s view, however, was that while such airy fashions might do for poets, stargazers, and skinny dippers, a certain kingly decorum had to be maintained in public, whatever the discomfort. Naturally, this tension only deepened his sense of saudade — which, on some level, he rather enjoyed.

 

Kuretake zig 005, Lamy black, Kokuyo

[Misfit]

I’m enjoying the drawing from you three participants. 

[inkstainedruth]

You're not the only one!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[yazeh]

45 minutes ago, Misfit said:

I’m enjoying the drawing from you three participants. 

 

29 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

You're not the only one!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Thanks! Means a lot. 🙏