Watercolor
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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…
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Perpetual Journal Botanical Watercolor
I have been (slowly, occasionally) using a perpetual journal to connect with the changing natural landscape that surrounds me. I have a lot to learn about botanical art, but even though all my images don’t come out the way I’d want, I try to imagine the mistakes and my artistic growth as part of the…
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Art Classes and Community while Traveling
I’ve been amazed at the breadth and quality of virtual art instruction that is available online. However, I’m also looking for feedback and help along my art journey and had imagined it would be difficult to really connect with an art cohort while we’re moving all around. But I feel like I’ve found a real…
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A small artistic breakthrough
I hope to have at least two main types of art practices while we’re on the road. 1) detailed botanical paintings in my perpetual journal 2) more loose landscape depicting places we’ve been. While I have a LOT to learn, I feel I’m on the right path with my botanical artwork. Not so much with…