Month: February 2025
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new watercolour palette
Treated my birthday self to an Art Toolkit Folio Palette! It’s both big and small, with lots of mixing space, even though it packs up very slim and weighs very little; and it magnets to itself and to whatever I want to stick it to for painting. While the -14C snowy weather here in Southern…
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Astronomics is now on Early Access!
Astronomics! It’s out! You can play it! I’ve spoken a bit about this previously but this is my first published Art Direction credit and you can bet it means a lot to me! You should go look at the steam page and see how hecking charming this game turned out: Also, you can take a…
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Sketchbook landscape sketch
Gansai tambi paints and neocolor iis; a very fun combo! I am often sad about the difficulty of making watercolours create rich even dark washes, but the gansai tambi paints excel at it. The only tragedy is how glossy they come out if you go thick with them. Neocolors lay down beautifully on them though,…
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Neocolor carnation
Drawn without water, on a 6 x 9″ grey blue cardstock, I think Strathmore brand. Drawn from life, from a lovely birthday bouquet.
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Wildflower Crystal Island in Oil Pastels
6 x 6″, sennelier oil pastels on unprimed wood. My partner gave me the full set of sennelier oil pastels for my birthday last week and it’s been excruciatingly hard not to abandon all my other commitments and responsibilities and just play with them incessantly because they are an incredibly enticing and beautiful medium that…
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why are they called pencil crayons in canada?
Canadian here, and I can confirm that, while admittedly I have never seen a product list itself as a pencil crayon in Canada, we all agree that’s what coloured pencils are referred to as in conversation. Now, certainly more research could be worth doing but, I have a theory… see, our packaging is mandated bilingual,…
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Beautiful abstract video I found while researching music videos and synaesthesia
This was a bit of a journey! First it started with me looking up Kid Koala‘s music videos, and being very charmed bythe tactile abstraction and simplicity of this one: Which led me to look up the animation studio he had worked with, See Creature, and start poking around their portfolio of beautiful things: …wherein…
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Recommended: the Wacom ExpressKey Remote
I want to talk a bit about this tool! It’s put out by Wacom, who make those screen tablets and drawing tablets that you’ve probably seen artists reference online. Wacom are an old, maybe the oldest brand in that space, and while I wouldn’t describe them as hugely experimental, they do have the decades of…
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Skeletons (2010)
Shoutout to Jurie and Andy for sharing this gem with me; deeply british, dry, spooky, sweet, and shows you the tip of the iceberg of a larger occult understanding that is revealed further through rewatchings and the subsequent mulling over you might do at the pub after with a friend.
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Dragon Getting a Pet
Get scrungled, as they say. Watercolour and carbon ink. I decided go back in and see if I can’t push the clarity on this further with gouache and I think it really helped! My photodocumentation is such shit in the winter with no natural light available, sorry. Maybe I’ll scan some sketchbook pages this year!…