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  • Oil Pastel Castle Ruins

    After a few weeks away it was great to get home to the oil pastels! I painted this one on canson mi-teintes paper, with sennelier oil pastels, and was reminded that when used on paper, even the greasiest oil pastels do set somewhat! Between days, the pastels set up enough it wasn’t blendable with my […]

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  • The Corruption of Pelursk – Pocket Dungeon Pack

    The Corruption of Pelursk – Pocket Dungeon Pack

    The Corruption of Pelursk is a system-agnostic tabletop RPG hexcrawl/dungeon, written by Shel Kahn. The Isle of Pelursk holds a glowing, steaming, mist-shrouded secret at its heart, and once you’ve entered its clutches it does not want to let you leave. Designed to fit easily as a sidequest into an ongoing campaign or stand confidently…

  • Keep on the Shining Isle – Pocket Pack

    Keep on the Shining Isle – Pocket Pack

    Keep on the Shining Isle is a system-agnostic dungeon featuring a haunted ruin, a mystery cult and some very tempting apples. Pick this up to send your home campaign on a memorable sidequest, or try out your favourite new system with this 1-2 session scenario. Written and published by Shel Kahn as the first of many…

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  • Astronomics is now on Early Access!
    Astronomics is now on Early Access!

    Astronomics! It’s out! You can play it! I’ve spoken a bit about this previously but this is my first published Art Direction credit and you can bet it means a lot to me! You should go look at the steam page and see how hecking charming this game turned out: Also, you can take a…

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  • Test driving my new watercolour palette
    Test driving my new watercolour palette

    A painting from the cafe window and two made up landscapes, to test drive this watercolour selection and see if it’s missing anything. I love how warm the greens can be despite my palette having cobalt teal AND cobalt turquoise! And the granulation is really working for me. I do miss having a near-black blue…

  • Sketching cars with markers and neocolor iis
    Sketching cars with markers and neocolor iis

    I’ve been enjoying sketching with the neocolours over a base layer or ink or paint, so today I threw a bunch into my bag of crayola mini markers that I normally save for visiting my friends and family with kids. Markers + neocolour iis in the very cheap, light, portable sketch books you can get…

  • Vine Tomatoes Still Life in Oil Pastel
    Vine Tomatoes Still Life in Oil Pastel

    For this one i used all my oil pastels, from the hardest to the stickiest to the softest. The grain of the canvas panel was filled in very quickly and because all the pastels besides sennelier are so opaque, i feel like i lost some of the vibrancy I’d found in the strawberry earlier. However,…

  • learned something important about my website

    i have footnote capabilities already! Ahh, the newly distracting ways I can write, unfolding before my like cells in the library of babel… Unfortunately I am already not to be trusted with most punctuation; I will resist all efforts to simplify my sentences, and I WILL nest (or embed) too many clauses! Anyways, this has…

  • Neocolor carnation
    Neocolor carnation

    Drawn without water, on a 6 x 9″ grey blue cardstock, I think Strathmore brand. Drawn from life, from a lovely birthday bouquet.

  • why are they called pencil crayons in canada?
    why are they called pencil crayons in canada?

    Canadian here, and I can confirm that, while admittedly I have never seen a product list itself as a pencil crayon in Canada, we all agree that’s what coloured pencils are referred to as in conversation. Now, certainly more research could be worth doing but, I have a theory… see, our packaging is mandated bilingual,…

  • Skeletons (2010)
    Skeletons (2010)

    Shoutout to Jurie and Andy for sharing this gem with me; deeply british, dry, spooky, sweet, and shows you the tip of the iceberg of a larger occult understanding that is revealed further through rewatchings and the subsequent mulling over you might do at the pub after with a friend.

  • Dragon Getting a Pet
    Dragon Getting a Pet

    Get scrungled, as they say. Watercolour and carbon ink. I decided go back in and see if I can’t push the clarity on this further with gouache and I think it really helped! My photodocumentation is such shit in the winter with no natural light available, sorry. Maybe I’ll scan some sketchbook pages this year!…

  • Concert Photo Gouache Study ft Leprous
    Concert Photo Gouache Study ft Leprous

    7 x 10″ gouache on hot press, referencing my own photos from seeing Leprous in Toronto back in September 2024. The photo itself is much more blue than teal, but bright, saturated light blues are such a challenge to mix with gouache! So i turned the background teal and was able to get the relative…

  • Shing Yin Khor’s “Make Little Guys”
    Shing Yin Khor’s “Make Little Guys”

    https://www.patreon.com/posts/make-little-guys-112268885

  • Aquarium Gouache Study
    Aquarium Gouache Study

    4 x 6″ gouache prawn. I decided to try using some drying time extenders – glycerine, watercolour blending medium – to try for more of a wet in wet blend approach, but honestly it was hard to keep the paint thick enough that it wasn’t just running all over the page. Something to retry in…

  • Purple Bellflower Study in Oil Pastel
    Purple Bellflower Study in Oil Pastel

    Drawn on very, very smooth paper, a mistake I will not make again. Photo ref taken from my database of plants that I have grown (intentionally or not!) in my garden over the years.

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