This year we're arting the alphabet from A-Z. Letters like æ, ñ, anything with a diacritical mark, etc., can go anywhere you like.
Congrats on making it this far into the year! We've reached the letter P
Any art subject starting with that letter is fair game, no matter how abstract.
P is for Pokémon
Let's make terrific art!
Each challenge lasts 2 weeks from the day this post was made. You can submit a new picture every day, work on one picture for 2 weeks, or post pics randomly. This is the most laid-back art challenge on the internet, & that means you have plenty of time to make your art however you want.
All art styles & skill levels are welcome- No AI, Yes alt text, CW as needed.
Have a fantastic day, draw something for my art challenge, see you next week!
We've made it across the country! We've done a few weeks of house/dog sitting! Now we are finally at the new place! But our former landlords have wildly overcharged us for our last month's rent (was supposed to be just half a month, but they charged us the whole month), our stuff isn't here yet so we're still living off of what fits in 2 suitcases, & I am still exhausted. I wish our things would arrive. I would like to have more than three t shirts again; I used most of my suitcase space for art supplies. So glad this place is furnished or we would be sleeping on the floor (wouldn't be the first time that's happened!) But we've done our first bit of baking (cookies from store-bought dough) and our first impromptu dance in the kitchen while the cookies baked (Soup Is Good Food by the Dead Kennedys) so yeah, we live here now.
Anyway, I just realized how many parentheses I'm using. Obviously I am too low on spoons to write cohesively at the moment. I wanted to write about artists like Kelly M O'Brien or Jon Foreman, but that will have to wait for another day. If you miss me too much, you can always read my old articles here or find me on Ko-Fi!
This painting has nothing to do with anything I've said here. Enjoy!
Thank you to everyone who has sent kind wishes & pet photos!
You are all fantastic beings made of light!
Thank you to everyone who has been doing the the #ArtABCs challenge with us!
You are all fantastic beings made of light and music!
I Want to See Your Art!
The #ArtABCs challenge is still going! the week this goes up, we are on letter O.
I love it so much when you share your art with me. Please, everyone, draw something for my art challenge – it will make me so happy (& hopefully it will make you happy, too)!
Final Challenge:
I am trying to find apps that will help me ID plants, animals, & fungi WITHOUT using AI. Do you have a favorite? Let me know on Mastodon or Ko-Fi!
Have a fantastic day, draw something for my art challenge, see you next week!
This year we're arting the alphabet from A-Z. Letters like æ, ñ, anything with a diacritical mark, etc., can go anywhere you like.
Congrats on making it this far into the year! We've reached the letter O
Any art subject starting with that letter is fair game, no matter how abstract.
O is for Outside
Let's make terrific art!
Each challenge lasts 2 weeks from the day this post was made. You can submit a new picture every day, work on one picture for 2 weeks, or post pics randomly. This is the most laid-back art challenge on the internet, & that means you have plenty of time to make your art however you want.
All art styles & skill levels are welcome- No AI, Yes alt text, CW as needed.
Have a fantastic day, draw something for my art challenge, see you next week!
It's (mostly) over! We're (sort of) here! We're going to be living out of our suitcases for a few weeks until the rest of our stuff catches up, but I get to stay in one place for a while & build up my spoon supply again. Then our stuff gets here & I get to exhaust myself again moving into a new place... It's a never ending cycle. For now, though, we have a chance to breathe.
Bonus: I get to dogsit this lovely lady!
Thank you to everyone who has sent kind wishes & pet photos!
You are all fantastic beings made of light!
Thank you to everyone who has been doing the the #ArtABCs challenge with us!
You are all fantastic beings made of light and music!
I Want to See Your Art!
The #ArtABCs challenge is still going! the week this goes up, we are on letter N.
I love it so much when you share your art with me. Please, everyone, draw something for my art challenge – it will make me so happy (& hopefully it will make you happy, too)!
OK, 1 picture from New England. You earned it!
Now the challenge I am facing is trying to find apps that will help me ID plants, animals, & fungi WITHOUT using AI. Do you have a favorite? Let me know on Mastodon or Ko-Fi!
Have a fantastic day, draw something for my art challenge, see you next week!
This year we're arting the alphabet from A-Z. Letters like æ, ñ, anything with a diacritical mark, etc., can go anywhere you like.
Congrats on making it this far into the year! We've reached the letter N
Any art subject starting with that letter is fair game, no matter how abstract.
N is for Nighttime
Let's make terrific art!
Each challenge lasts 2 weeks from the day this post was made. You can submit a new picture every day, work on one picture for 2 weeks, or post pics randomly. This is the most laid-back art challenge on the internet, & that means you have plenty of time to make your art however you want.
All art styles & skill levels are welcome- No AI, Yes alt text, CW as needed.
Have a fantastic day, draw something for my art challenge, see you next week!
Moving Day is at hand.
Prepare to move your very very odd family.
~Aunty Shrew, The Secret of NIMH
The date looms. So do the stacks of boxes. I don't want to go.
I've lived here for nearly half my life; Los Angeles feels more like home to me than any other place ever has. Leaving at all is heart breaking. Leaving while the fascists running this country are sending the Marines & National Guard in to help ICE & the LAPD/LASD violate our civil rights feels like I'm running away & abandoning everyone, even though we were planning to move before this all started. I hate that greedy billionaires decided they still didn't have enough, so they decided to drain Hollywood dry. I hate that we got about 15 minutes of Pride & have had to spend the rest of June in Rage. I hate that people are claiming that Angelenos are burning LA to the ground, & I hate that other people are just blindly trusting that even though it's an obvious lie. I hate that the fascists announced they're going to “liberate” us from California's democratically elected leadership, & people still hesitate to call them fascists. I hate that Democratic representatives have been wrongfully arrested- and that it's happened repeatedly, so you don't even know which arrest prompted me to write this sentence! I hate that Trump lies and lies and lies and lies and no one in power stops him as the war crimes pile up. I'm supposed to be moving thousands of miles very soon, & I just keep dissociating instead of getting things done. Sorry folks, I try to keep things upbeat, but my world is falling apart & I just can't right now.
I Want to See Your Art!
The #ArtABCs challenge is still going! The week this goes up, we are on letter M.
I love it so much when you share your art with me. Please, everyone, draw something for my art challenge – it will make me so happy (& hopefully it will make you happy, too).
It's like Patreon, but better. You can follow me for free or, if my art has made you happy or you empathize with how stressful moving thousands of miles is, you can make a donation to help me. (Ko-Fi doesn't even make you make an account to donate.) Also...
This year we're arting the alphabet from A-Z. Letters like æ, ñ, anything with a diacritical mark, etc., can go anywhere you like.
Congrats on making it this far into the year! We've reached the letter M
Any art subject starting with that letter is fair game, no matter how abstract.
M is for Mountains
Let's make terrific art!
Each challenge lasts 2 weeks from the day this post was made. You can submit a new picture every day, work on one picture for 2 weeks, or post pics randomly. This is the most laid-back art challenge on the internet, & that means you have plenty of time to make your art however you want.
All art styles & skill levels are welcome- No AI, Yes alt text, CW as needed.
Have a fantastic day, draw something for my art challenge, see you next week!
Lots of things are happening right now. It's overwhelming. My SO & I have spent months trying to figure out the best thing to do as our country disintegrates around us. We have officially made the difficult decision to leave the life we have spent years building here & move thousands of miles to the other side of the country, where his family lives. At the same time, masked men in unmarked vans are abducting people around the country. At the same time, the president is sending the national guard to my city to stop people from protesting masked men in unmarked vans abducting people. At the same time...
I don't even have enough spoons to list all the reasons I am running out of spoons. I just keep thinking about all the things I will miss about my beautiful city.
I am going to miss seeing gorgeous gardens all year long.
The Big Update
The next month will be full of sorting & packing & schlepping things to various charity collection points. It's barely started & I'm already exhausted. I am going to keep painting & sewing every day, because that keeps me sane. I am not going to be able to keep up with posting it all the time in all the places. I do not have the spoons.
If you want to keep seeing my art every day, follow me on Ko-Fi.
It's like Patreon, but better! You can follow me for free or, if my art has made you happy or maybe you just empathize with how stressful long-haul moving is, consider making a donation to support me. Ko-Fi doesn't even make you make an account to donate! Also...
I Want to See Your Art!
The #ArtABCs challenge is still going! The week this blog goes up, we are on letter L.
I love it so much when you share your art with me. Please, everyone, draw something for my art challenge – it will make me so happy (& hopefully it will make you happy, too)!
I will be keeping you all updated going forward, which is a nice way of saying that I will probably be complaining about moving a lot. What else is social media for?
What do you think? Do you have one weird trick professional movers won't tell me? Let me know on Mastodon or Ko-Fi!
Have a fantastic day, draw something for my art challenge, see you next week!
This year we're arting the alphabet from A-Z. Letters like æ, ñ, anything with a diacritical mark, etc., can go anywhere you like.
Congrats on making it this far into the year! We've reached the letter L
Any art subject starting with that letter is fair game, no matter how abstract.
L is for Look At This Laid-Back Lil Friend!
Let's make terrific art!
Each challenge lasts 2 weeks from the day this post was made. You can submit a new picture every day, work on one picture for 2 weeks, or post pics randomly. This is the most laid-back art challenge on the internet, & that means you have plenty of time to make your art however you want.
All art styles & skill levels are welcome- No AI, Yes alt text, CW as needed.
Have a fantastic day, draw something for my art challenge, see you next week!
This year we're arting the alphabet from A-Z. Letters like æ, ñ, anything with a diacritical mark, etc., can go anywhere you like.
Congrats on making it this far into the year! We've reached the letter K
Any art subject starting with that letter is fair game, no matter how abstract.
K is for Koala.
Let's make terrific art!
Each challenge lasts 2 weeks from the day this post was made. You can submit a new picture every day, work on one picture for 2 weeks, or post pics randomly. This is the most laid-back art challenge on the internet, & that means you have plenty of time to make your art however you want.
All art styles & skill levels are welcome- No AI, Yes alt text, CW as needed.
Have a fantastic day, draw something for my art challenge, see you next week!
P is for Pokémon
This painting has nothing to do with anything I've said here. Enjoy!
O is for Outside
Bonus: I get to dogsit this lovely lady!
OK, 1 picture from New England. You earned it!
N is for Nighttime
Is this too depressing? Here, have a fire flower.
M is for Mountains
I am going to miss seeing gorgeous gardens all year long.
L is for Look At This Laid-Back Lil Friend!
K is for Koala.