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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Sundered Isles Game Kit
For better or worse, I’ve always been very interested in putting together little self-contained capsules of materials or supplies for the various activities in my life. Not to say that the setups were particularly extravagant or expensive, just that they were focused and dedicated. Gaming is no different. I have a small but not-often-used box
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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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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