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Never Say Never

When I was a kid, my mom said a lot of wise things. But a few of them I was both paying attention when she said them and absorbing her meaning. One of these was probably because she repeated it at us a few times, probably about school and chores, and likely also when weContinue reading “Never Say Never”

Feel the Learn 2021

I haven’t gotten ahead at all in planning or prepping anything for Learnuary, so let me just share a few videos that have struck a chord with me lately, concerning learning to draw and improving at it. Sycra has a whole series of videos called “What I Wish I Knew About” which is wonderful becauseContinue reading “Feel the Learn 2021”

Living

The summer of 2020 was supposed to have allowed us more time to create and work on things. But like so many, I felt like I was mostly walking around in a fugue. Our household activities contracted into a bubble of a few contacts, but remained fairly active and in need of our parental involvement.Continue reading “Living”

Writing Advice: I’d like to Introduce You to Fred (Learnuary 2020)

I want to share one little epiphany from this manual called Creating Short Fiction by Damon Knight. It’s about you and Fred.

Writing Advice: How to Cultivate Wise Readers (Learnuary 2020)

Learnuary 2020: How to Cultivate a Wise Reader (advice I gleaned from Orson Scott Card’s book)

Learnuary is Here

I’ve tried NaNoWriMo and I’ve tried Inktober. I’ve even tried a fun one called Story-a-day-in-May (which I might give another chance, actually). And even after a few attempts over the years, I’ve never gotten much out of them. I sort of look over the lovely things others make and remind myself that the trend ofContinue reading “Learnuary is Here”

Etherington Brothers Cool resource for artists!

The Etherington Brothers put out some wonderful FREE resources! They’re really fun to look at and they’re very compact and too the point, aiming to show you visually what they are thinking while they construct or represent things. The link below goes to a page of two hundred easy tutorial pages. Make sure when youContinue reading “Etherington Brothers Cool resource for artists!”

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A sketch for a little artist’s challenge:

DagBeleGardian Painted Logo

completed 4-10-19 I don’t have recent experience with vector art, or any interest in developing vector program skills at this time, but I’m up for painted logos! I will paint them at a high res so they can be reduced for different applications. Logo painting is charged by the hour ($15 per as of thisContinue reading “DagBeleGardian Painted Logo”