Art
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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…
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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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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…