Bullet: event

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 job last week and have been wrapping up my duties before I head into a long-planned creative sabbatical and some time off. The team was throwing me a little farewell party, and as a special

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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 today and I can’t find thirty minutes or so to dabble out even a simple sketch, I think I’m going to be able to announce on April 1 (no fooling) that my daily doodles have

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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 the spring air, but also of snapping a small collection of reference photos for future painting efforts. I nabbed some landscapes of the river valley. I captured a few perspective shots under the bridge over

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on pi comics.

I used to draw a web comic more and paint a lot less. I note that fact today because the premise of my comic was centered around the notion of dad jokes, and the patron saint holiday of dad jokes is, obviously, pi day. My parenting humour aside, my efforts have paid off and my

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re:valentine’s day.

It was almost exactly a year ago today that I discovered one of the perks of learning watercolour painting: As it turns out, and if you are so inclined, you can make your own greeting cards. That’s right. I’ve never needed to buy a greeting card since learning to watercolour paint. Paper. Paint. Water. Brush.

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