time traveler, interdimensional artist
Not every day is a day for outdoor sketching. I picked October as a month to challenge myself to draw every day, but October is not summer where I live… nor is it winter. In November, our city will almost certainly be covered in snow at some point; not ideal for sketching in the park.
...continue readingSeven weeks into an eight week class I feel a lot of things, but I think it’s best summed up with a description of a graph. The Confidence versus Knowledge graph, they say, is like a curve with a deep dip in the middle. At the start, when knowledge is (greater than zero but still)
...continue readingI’m taking a deserved day off. I’ve been drawing every day for the whole month of March and (with some family stuff happening today) I need a day to catch my breath. The break will be short-lived, of course, because (a) it’s basically spring now and I can start to see the trees budding and
...continue readingIt’s the first day of spring. Or, officially, the spring equinox and the astronomical point at which the planetary axis corresponds to this thing we think of as a seasonal change. I was thinking about being outside again and painting in the fresh air. I could, in theory, paint outside year-round, but since watercolour needs
...continue readingI’m not a details person. In my head I think I’d like to be, but it takes a special sort of mood for me to focus on the little things. So, when I’m in that mood and that mood corresponds to a point in time when I happen to have a paint brush in my
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