Happy Summertime Inkivators! (if you’re from the northern hemisphere) Hats off to all of you who used your experience or your imagination to illustrate an idea of FATHER last week. So many of them stopped me in my scrolling tracks and several of them made me cry! Once again, well done to the Inktober community as you create thoughtful, beautiful things for this world.

As we said in our last post, Jake and I were traveling as volunteer chaperones with a youth group last week to upstate New York. We visited lakes and rivers and farms and forests along the way and I found myself in awe the entire time about the beauty in nature. (And I decided I need to live by a lake at some point in my life.) I was mesmerized most by the wind as it pushed waves across the surface of the lake or rippled the fields of grain on gently sloping hills. The most breathtaking example of the might of that wind was actually found in a grove of trees. The branches grew so tall overhead and so thickly together, that the sun was almost entirely blocked from reaching the ground below. That is, until the wind started to blow. As the trees swayed and danced, individual rays of sunshine would break through for just a moment and stream down on the forest floor. The wind blew so strongly that it was as if I was inside the belly of a giant living creature as it breathed and bellowed: the sound indescribable except to say that when people speak about hearing voices in the wind, I can see exactly what they mean. It was utterly silent one moment, and then the rushing wind would fill the space and demand to be noticed as every living thing bowed to its presence.

It was incredible.

Whether you’re in a forest, sea, or desert, try to capture in your illustration the power of WIND in your world (real or imagined!) And afterwards, I hope you get a chance to go outside and feel a breeze on your face.

Happy Inking!

Love-
Alison

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Hi Inkists! Seeing all of your BEACH drawings last week really had me itching to ditch work and go to the nearest beach for a couple days.

Instead I find myself at a summer camp this week as a chaperone over a group of 13 kids. We are having a great time even though we are NOT at the beach.

This week let’s see your drawings of fathers or what represents a father figure in your life. Or for the fathers out there, draw what it means for you to be a father.

Can’t wait to see what you do!

-Jake

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Hi Inklers!

Because it’s full-fledged Summer now, I find myself constantly wishing I was at the beach. Some people are more cabin/mountain/hike type people who love to snuggle in their sleeping bags and smell the pine trees. Some are more city/bustle/nightlife people, who love the lights and sounds of a constantly awake metropolis. And some of us are right at home with sand on our feet, crusty salt water hairdos, and that odd fishy smell floating on the breeze. (That’s me.) I have been blessed enough to spend most of my Summers visiting my Granny’s beach house until a couple of years ago and I have to say, it feels like something is missing in my soul.

So, if you would, please use all your inky talents and let’s take a trip to the BEACH! You bring the towels and I’ll bring the snacks.

See you at the seashore!

Alison

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