Image source: Merlina McGovern I haven’t been getting very good sleep lately (damn you, TikTok). After a long day of editing, cleaning,...

Source: Photo by Min An on Pexels Now that I’ve finished with Inktober, I find that my evenings are a bit freer, which leaves me feeling...

Image source: Photo by RDNE Stock project on Pexels I admit it. I’m an overachiever. A perfectionist. A goody two-shoes. I’m terrified of...

Image source: Merlina McGovern Yes! I did it! I made it across the final Inktober finish line. I may not be out of breath, and my legs...

Image source: Merlina McGovern The end of October is in my sights. I committed to completing an ink sketch every day for 31 days to...

Image source: Merlina McGovern For the first decades of my life, I have always lived by the ocean. Whether it was the beaches along the...

Image source: Merlina McGovern I’m not going to lie. This post is going to be shallow. I’ve had a long day of editing baggy manuscripts,...

Image source: Merlina McGovern Today’s Inktober prompt was Celestial. And for me, there are no better concepts to illustrate this term...

Image source: Merlina McGovern A lanky interloper swirls into a sleepy rural Tarry Town. Ichabod Crane becomes the town’s schoolmaster...

Image source: Merlina McGovern Wow, this recent series of Inktober prompts has me really thinking about ghosts and goblins and all manner...

Image source: Merlina McGovern I have always loved drawing this dark and foreboding house in Salem. The “Salem Witch House,” was the New...

Image source: Merlina McGovern Do you believe in ghosts? Do I? I’m sitting here staring at that question. I want to believe in ghosts,...

Image source: Merlina McGovern As I was working today, I had my office window open. Outside, I could hear winds scattering fallen leaves...

Image source: Merlina McGovern I didn’t really have a long weekend to speak of. And, of course, this particular long weekend is filled...

Image source: Merlina McGovern What is the worst school sport, and why is it dodgeball? Today’s Inktober prompt is, dodge. Not a very...

Image source: Merlina McGovern I suppose to make this daily double creative responsibility a little bit easier, I’ll try to combine my...

Image source: Merlina McGovern Without fail, every year around this time, leaves start to turn and the smell of pumpkin spice perfumes...

Photo by Dana Tentis on Pexels Today, I had a lovely lunch with a former colleague at the Summer Shack in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I...

Image source: Photo by Vlada Karpovich on Pexels If someone were to ask me to describe myself, I would probably say that I am a lifelong...

Image source: Merlina McGovern And now I have arrived at the final medium for my lemon and lime study, colored pencils. I used to think...