daily-ish index.
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regarding themes.
I don’t know the long term impacts of focusing my learning into themed months, but when for example I decided
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of hesitation.
Artistic paralysis is definitely a thing. Call it whatever you want. A dry spell. Writers block. Lack of inspiration. I’ve
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for a gallery show.
“It’s your first gallery show!” They told me as I walked into the lunchroom. I gave my notice at my
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on class.
Seven weeks into an eight week class I feel a lot of things, but I think it’s best summed up
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in defence of breaks.
Even routine needs to be broken occasionally. I’ve been training for a marathon for the last three months. I started
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on brushing up.
Over the last few years of trying to teach myself to urban sketch and dabble in watercolour, I’ve bought a
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on instruction.
I took a three hour watercolour class at the local community centre this afternoon. We painted a sunset behind the
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on not drawing.
I’m taking a deserved day off. I’ve been drawing every day for the whole month of March and (with some
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on #martch last.
It’s 7am as I write this last post of my month of daily drawing and unless something goes terribly wrong
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of human perspective, part 2.
I just read an article about an upgrade to a video game I play. The game now includes ray tracing.
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on fountain pens, part 2.
I ordered a couple fountain pens last week, and since they’ve arrived I’ve been dabbling in doodling with my new
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on messes.
I had thirty minutes at lunch today to do my daily sketch, so I went for a walk and found
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masked off.
I’ve been experimenting with masking. No, it’s not anything unique or new, but I’ve been playing around with the notion
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re: waiting for paint to dry.
Watercolour painting has forced me to become more patient than I’m used to. I’m used to pushing through. I’m used
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on photo expeditions, part one.
I went for a long walk with the dog this morning with the intention of not only getting out into
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on plein air lunch breaks, part one.
I’ve been taking my pocket sketchbook to work with me, the little one, the wallet-sized, fit-in-your-jacket-pocket, discrete-to-carry-around moleskine that I
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of ai, part one.
Almost everyone is talking about or writing about AI these days, and in particular with regards to things like the
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for finding inspiration, part two.
I sometimes see artists depicted in film, fiction and media and consistently those artists tend to be singularly focused on
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on fountain pens.
I’ve been trying out fountain pens again. About a year ago I bought a dip pen, some ink, and a
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of spring-spiration.
It’s the first day of spring. Or, officially, the spring equinox and the astronomical point at which the planetary axis
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of multitasking.
I dabble in a lot of artistic stuff. I’ve been painting and posting it here, sure, but I have also
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on photography.
I bought a camera app. Well, precisely, I subscribed to an app for my phone for about ten bucks per
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to rule them all.
It’s strange to admit but after nearly 18 months of actively sketching and painting I finally — finally! — bought
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for supplies on hand.
I work in the office downtown at least two days per week. I work from home the other three. At
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on half march.
Getting to the half way point in any goal is something to be celebrated. As of today I’m about half
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