Year: 2023
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more website thoughts
as I continue to chip away at my website, and get a feel for wordpress’s new full site editor capacity, I’m more excited than ever about what I can do with my website and also having some decision paralysis around what to do next, you know? I think I mentioned this in an earlier post…
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Etching and Acid Baths and Surrender
Friends, I just finished teaching the last third of a course on print production, and between that and the whole thing with twitter’s crop changing (somewhere? not for me but somewhere?) I’ve found myself thinking a lot about copper etching and my relationship with the acid bath. So, first up, copper etching is an art…
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arm updates and a couple paintings
(crossposted from my tumblr) some left-handed gouache studies from the past week, after taking a couple months off thanks to the arm surgery and a deep fear that being bad at it would take all the fun out of it for me. painted on 12×16 paper, so I can get less mad about my wobbly…
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website planning ramble
Since moving apartments, I’ve been feeling a kind of spring cleaning urge for all of my things physical and it turns out, digital. Since my physical belongings are an unmanageable mountain of family heirlooms in the form of bankers boxes full of loose photographs, and artifacts from my grandmother’s childhood that nobody can identify but…
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DIY ikea hack – Map Box
I have had this wooden ikea tabletop box for decades, and since it took a beating in my last move, I decided to sand it all down to clean wood and paint it up decadently, in hopes that it delights me whenever I look at it, and I feel comfortable saying it sure does! I…
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Well-Worn Warrior Queen
Well-worn warrior queen. Painted in procreate with my non-dominant hand.
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Dragon Naturally Speaking
So I caved and bought Dragon naturally speaking professional 16. It’s the most supported and most recommended dictation software; and it’s been around for decades. So, I naïvely thought that it would be a straightforward and professional experience purchasing installing and setting up the software but no, absolutely not, it’s incredibly infuriating to deal with…
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practicing writing and drawing with my awful terrible no good left hand moodboard
i’m gonna relearn how to enjoy this if it kills me.
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help
Hey cohost I could use some help or some referrals to people who might actually be able to help or even like a really helpful YouTube video So I’m down to one hand for typing and mousing and everything which as you might expect is making me twitchy with frustration, just constant ongoing frustration I’ve…