What a toasty spring we’ve been having. It isn’t even summer yet, but it feels like it. Recently I’ve been reading a lot, seeing some friends I haven’t seen in ages, and thinking about my priorities and goals for the rest of the year. A lot has changed in my life over the past few … More June Update | 2022
I love landscape paintings. Beautiful scenery captured in paint is something so captivating to me. But, it’s also not something I’ve spent much time painting myself. So, a few years ago I decided to try my hand at some forest scenery. I liked the paintings I made, but they were far from perfect. More recently, … More Painting Touchups
I’ve had my eye on trying watercolor paint and colored pencils again, two things I haven’t done in a long time, when I discovered watercolor pencils. I could try them both at once! Ok, maybe the watercolor paint experience is a bit different than this, but I could achieve a similar look by using something … More Watercolor Pencils & Calligraphy Pens
I’ve accumulated a strange array of skills over the years. And I just keep adding to the collection. People who don’t know me well are surprised that I know how to do a lot of the things I know how to do. And no one who knows me is ever surprised or discouraging when I … More Jack of All Trades, Master of None
Some time ago, there was a period when googly-eyes would keep appearing on things at work. No one could figure out where they were coming from, and, after a while, everyone finally realized it was me. Now, it’s fairly well-known that I almost always have a bag of googly-eyes on me, just in case. More … More Googly-Eyed Birds
I’ve been doing a bunch of DIYs and re-organizing at home. Along with that, I’ve also been switching around the art on the walls. We’ve always had a variety of art hanging on our walls, a lot of it made by us or people we know, along with some vintage things. I never moved any … More Painting Around the Edges
I have a bunch of plain white, gray, and black t-shirts. I used to wear them under my uniforms when I worked in kitchens. Now that I no longer wear chef whites to work, I don’t really get much use out of them. So I decided to customize them with acrylic paint and add designs … More Customizing T-Shirts
Now that I have a digital camera and don’t need to develop my film to see the pictures I take, I generally have more picture frames than pictures that I wish to display. I actually had an empty frame on a table for nearly a year because we had nothing to put in it. Recently, … More Framed Drawing – Birds on a Wire
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