Author: Shel Kahn
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Project DARK Card Art Retrospective
About a decade ago I had the privilege of painting a card deck of fantasy medieval fighters, thieves, assassins, and sorcerers for Will Hindmarch. He had pitched the card deck as both a play aid (the game he was developing at the time used a traditional poker deck) and a world building tool, filling the…
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Soft Pastel Materials
More than anything else I have worked with, soft pastels – by which I mean the dry, sometimes chalky ones, not the oily ones – really do create that stereotypical art studio chaos from which a beautiful painting emerges. Everything in my life is now a little dusty. I’ve got an air filter I run,…
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Golden Digger Wasp in Soft Pastel
A small study of my own photo of a golden digger wasp on some goldenrod flowers last summer! I primed the paper with some opaque white watercolour ground to add tooth, and honestly I think it helped a fair bit and allowed me to get a nice blend of soft and hard edges on this…
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Jey Pawlik Explains RSS!
One of my fav tech savvy cartoonists wrote up a huge post on what RSS is, how you can use it, how they’re using it in two different apps, and more! Jey’s a great explainer of complicated things, and if you’ve been noticing folks talking about RSS more these days, this is a great overview…
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chalk pastel dragon island WIP – now with more details!
it’s coming along! while I suspect there’s a limit to how much I can do this, I’ve learned that you can use a paper stump or similar to lift up quite a lot of the soft pastel and redraw – which is really letting me get away with changing things that I should have figured…
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chalk pastel dragon island WIP
I’ve painted the paper with opaque watercolour ground to add more tooth and honestly it’s working really well!
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Curious about iNaturalist? Worried about not owning a fancy camera?
Let this forum thread remind you that uploading observations is really all about sharing information in whatever way you can! https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/whats-the-worst-pic-you-uploaded-to-inat/40286/25 If it’s an ID-able subject, you’re good to upload! Here, some examples from the thread: Here’s a real blurry photo of mine that was a useful element of an ID: And here’s a post…
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Laura’s angle on iNaturalist
I’m enjoying not only posting on and browsing photos via iNaturalist, I’m also having a blast seeing how other people are getting something out of it! Laura’s been posting about it on her blog this year too – there’s a strong data-parsing angle in Laura’s blog posts, finding interesting stories as single examples or as…