Watercolor
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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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Catskills Hiking & Painting
We arrived in the Catskills earlier this week and already have been loving getting out into nature. We took a short hike with the dogs on our first full day to Sloan Gorge Loop. Given that Sadie just turned 11 years old, it was about as strenuous as we would have wanted to do with
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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