Year: 2024
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Waterfall Watercolour
I’ve been trying to follow my more inscrutable whims, and found this ref on unsplash that seemed both epic and goofy at the same time, and had to paint it. I painted this on stonehenge cotton rag printmaking paper; this isn’t the best paper for watercolour and I needed to add white gouache to get…
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Playmaps
One of my ongoing interests is making storytelling toys for the kids in my life – and for me, playmaps on rugs or blankets are one of the first storytelling toys that I remember from my own childhood. I’ve had the good luck to make maps with excellent friends like Evlyn Moreau and to get…
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Thermal print camera and ttrpg play!
Shoutout to curious quail for this wonderful example of where thermal printing is fun and cute and useful!
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Working on a painting on printmaking paper
This paper is not sized like watercolour paper and it’s sucking up all my paint! but I’m getting such soft and complex colours because of that… but I’ve lost a lot of my contrast and smaller highlights from the way the paper lets the paint spread into it like a sponge. So it’s definitely time…
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impossible door watercolour
after one hell of a workweek, i took a few hours Friday night and listened to my favorite Opeth albums and painted a watercolour landscape in my favourite spooky palette. painted on 12 x 18″ coldpress Arches watercolour paper, something i have not always enjoyed working with due to the intense sizing. for this piece…
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working on a tiny poemzine
as mentioned elsewhere, I’m not a huge fan of my handwriting right now, but it feels like it would be worthwhile to hand write this poem for my zine. I did a first pass and it’s all pretty rough, but I scanned it at a nice high resolution just in case I do use it.…
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a few beautiful bugs and the phone lenses I used
Some of my fav macro shots from the summer. Love a sweat bee! I’ve been using cheap cellphone camera lens attachments to try out macro photography, and honestly it’s been incredibly fun! These are the two sets I got that have worked well for me – they’re kind of random to track down, Apexel is…
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tiny gouache view
I was doing a sketch with this fountain pen, which has non-waterproof ink in it, and I decided to try washing over it with a water brush, and then painting over the tonal result with some gouache, which I haven’t done in a while. it ended up being a very enjoyable if very small painting!
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oil pastel bird in the hand
painted on wood! I converted my reference photo to black and white, as well, and I think it did give me more permission to be weird with the color. you might not know this, but I kept pet birds from the age of 9 until I was almost 30, first a peach-faced lovebird named Pickles…
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oil pastel oranges
reffing a lovely still life from unsplash, i believe. done on slate blue 9 x 12″ canson mi-tients paper. I’ve been doing a lot of underdrawing with the cray-pas expressionist pastels, which are a lot firmer, so they don’t layer that well with themselves but they behave really predictably underneath the rest of my pastels,…