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Welp, I tried Hourly Comic Day (2025), although I'm not a comic artist, so it's more like hourly drawing day. Got up early, drew my hourlies at a flea market, and checked out the postcard sale. A busy day! As soon as I got home, though, I got tired and have to admit that my evenings can get extremely nonproductive! lol I don't know if I would ever do this again.

It wasn't a terrible challenge, just a bit rushed.

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Taking a mild winter walk to see that the forest is still active! Spotted my first earth star mushroom 😊 plus my personal favourite, bird's nest.

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November's patreon video is a (mostly) real-time making of "Blue," a watercolour painting of this little guy passively floating down a slow river in a somber kind of mood.

It's okay, though, 'cause yellow duckling friends are always standing by, ready to have a nice time together 😊

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Saw some yellow weeds growing in a ditch, and they were like little bits of sunlight on a dreary, grey day.

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I was the kind of kid that had absolutely zero interest in others. 😅 At recess, I would lay on the wet grass with my feet dangling in the sky, pretending gravity had flipped and everything was tumbling off through the clouds into vast space.

This is what I was busy doing when another lonely kid walked up to me and asked if the position of best friend was currently available. I was like, "Sure, okay," and we're still friends 30 years later. 😆

It's kind of funny how lonely kids easily recognize each other from a distance, feet in the air, with a thousand-yard stare. Kind of a dead giveaway I guess, heh.

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Been enjoying the pylons around town! They add such a fun shape and a pop of bright colour to any ordinary scene.

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Flipping through my stack of older paintings that I haven't been giving much attention to lately, their little stories just as relevant as they were at the creation stage 🥹

So I'm having a sale!

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Latest video on youtube, I got bored and challenged myself to make a watercolour painting using only dollar store art supplies.

Conclusion, dollar store watercolor is gooey and weird!

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Making paintbrushes with thistle fluff

Just goofing around and really didn't think it would work, but he handed me some thistle fluff and my fairy craft mode locked in.

Silicone glue on a stick, for water resistance. I'd say the wire was just for show if it wasn't so ugly. Oh well, maybe next time will be prettier!

It's actually holding together and picking up paint, AND creating a variety of line weight? Are you kidding me?

It actually works?? 🥹

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Slowly assembling calendars one by one...

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every snack and meal, even in the dead of winter, even if I didn't see a single fruit fly elsewhere all day, there's ALWAYS ONE

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Opus plein air challenge 2024

Thought I was too sad to attend the Opus plein air painting challenge, but went anyway, and we found a hummingbird nest! :O

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Another beach day, another quick watercolour sketch. Quite windy! It's nice to slow down and take in all the shapes and colours.

The crows might have been siblings, they are giving each other major side eye lol

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Sketches and photos from the weekend's exploration at Serpentine Fen. We saw three different species of butterflies within the two minutes of each other😗

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A nice day at Boundary Bay, sketching with my new feathered art friends

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tbh I feel like a goose witnessing a meteor at least once a week just by going for walkies

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An Art-chaological Mystery

When you get to paint a fun cat commission, but mount it on a pretty wood panel that's already been painted two or three times. It's like three secret paintings in one!

I think it was once roses, and before that, something with blue.