Art
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Art Update – June ‘25
I’ve settled into a few focused areas of art practice and I’m getting more comfortable with them. But I’m still leaving plenty of room for experimenting with new materials and approaches such as Colored Pencils. The four main art areas are as follows: Travel Sketchbook, Game Journals, Botanical Journal and Block Experiments 1. Travel Sketchbook
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Colored Pencils
For quite a while I’ve thought that colored pencils might be a good medium to explore, but I haven’t taken the time. Recently I finally got started properly exploring this new direction. As I noted in a prior post, I’ve been lucky to sign up for several classes from Sandy Allnock. Turns out I’m great
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Six month update
While we were in the dreaming stages for this adventure, we would routinely remind ourselves that we’d have a significant adjustment period, coming from living in a house. We guessed that our first six months might be full of fine-tuning and redirecting, possibly with some hard discussions and compromises. We reminded each other that we
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Sundered Isles, part 2
Ironsworn campaigns get started with fairly straightforward character creation that includes a background vow. My character (Amarelle) is a young orphan who sells herbalism reagents and potions to scrape by an existence. She eventually wants to avenge the death of her parents, but prior to the campaign timeline she hasn’t been in a position to
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Ironsworn: Sundered Isles
The creator of Ironsworn has published an addition to Starforged, their space-faring game, which sets the action in an age of sail. The new expansion is called Sundered Isles and I’m getting ready to start a campaign that’s based in a world of floating islands. I thoroughly enjoyed my prior game of Ironsworn, set in
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Apothecaria Journaling Game
Apothecaria is the game that first introduced me to solo tabletop roleplaying games. I saw it recommended in a Reddit post and from there I went down a rabbit hole that resulted in my starting an Ironsworn game. Before too long though, I came back to Apothecaria and purchased it out of curiosity. The game