Award winning** Artist Rita Kirkman is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America, a daily painter and blogger. She is well known for her portraits of Renaissance** characters, her caricatures and quick sketches, and elevating the status of beautiful Texas cattle through her vivid portraits of them!

A diplomat, spy, and celebrated fencer, D'Éon lived the first half of life as a man and the second half as a woman.

Leaves, tendrils and mysterious organic forms abound in these never-before-seen etchings about to go on show at Tate Modern's new exhibition, Louise Bourgeois: Works on Paper

Who else has a weird panicky feeling about Inktober? 🙄 . . . #Inktober