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  • Oil pastel study of a magnetar car

    Oil pastel study of a magnetar car

    Did this study from a photo I took during the pandemic of a delightful vehicle we occasionally saw in our old neighbourhood. A magnetar is a very, very cool and scary space phenomenon and I extremely respect naming your ancient honda accord after it. A couple process shots to show you the underdrawing I did […]

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  • Oil pastel study of a magnetar car

    Oil pastel study of a magnetar car

    Did this study from a photo I took during the pandemic of a delightful vehicle we occasionally saw in our old neighbourhood. A magnetar is a very, very cool and scary space phenomenon and I…

  • LongStory 2!
    LongStory 2!

    So my day job at Bloom Digital has kept a lot of my life under NDA, and it’s a real treat to get to tell you about LongStory 2 and all the hard work we’ve been doing to make this game a reality! LongStory was originally created in 2014 as an alternative to shallow “insert…


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  • oil pastel mini portrait study
    oil pastel mini portrait study

    Browsed through Earth’s World for some great natural light portraits to practice with. This was made in a new little 5 x 7ish sketchbook I picked up that’s filled with recycled cotton rag paper. I’d been noticing that rag papers have taken my softest oil pastels the best – you can see one pushed to…


  • while i am gardening this website i realize the weeding process is maybe invisible

    As I edit posts for spelling and grammar and tagging and layout and all these little invisible things I do to try and learn how to wrangle my website and all its content, I realize that a) this seems to kick them back into RSS “unread” status, which must be annoying..? and b) most folks…


  • Gouache hawk study
    Gouache hawk study

    got the gouache out again for the first time in months; arm recovery really took the fun out of it for me for a while there! but I’m feeling more myself when it comes to holding the brush again, and it was lovely to sit and do a study of the hawk I watched kill…


  • Oil pastel robin
    Oil pastel robin

    I’ve been doing studies in the Robert Bateman brand sketchbooks, which are a pretty smooth vellum surface; the oil pastel slides around wildly on them but gosh it’s fun! This drawing is maybe 7 x 7″ or so in size. Reffed my own photo. Again I did an underdrawing with the cray-pas expressionist oil pastels…


  • alleyway afternoon
    alleyway afternoon


  • the don river in early fall
    the don river in early fall


  • Golden dusk alleyway
    Golden dusk alleyway


  • northern birches
    northern birches


  • still life with lemons in oil pastel
    still life with lemons in oil pastel

    making these read yellow and not orange was tricky! i haven’t really gotten the hang of mixing these oil pastels to achieve custom colours yet. I can do it but I don’t really have a go to method, not a real understanding of which colours mix how. the mungyo and haiya ones, which were more…


  • Thermal print camera and ttrpg play!
    Thermal print camera and ttrpg play!

    Shoutout to curious quail for this wonderful example of where thermal printing is fun and cute and useful!