Bazaar del Mundo Colors
Again, I am rushing off to work. I wanted to make a post about the colors of the Bazaar del Mundo.
Month: October 2019
Watercolor Jellyfish Practice
I have been in the mood for watercolor painting while Stephen and I listen to audio-books in the evening. I am following this watercolor tutorial on painting jellyfish. Its pretty fun. Here’s how it turned out. I did three practices two before work and one after work. I like doing the tentacles better with pen …
My Cactus is Dying but its Interesting
I don’t have a lot of time to write this morning but, my cactus is dying. There are holes in it and I don’t know why. I am still very much learning the ways of Arizona gardening and have never before owned cacti in my adult life so some setbacks are to be expected. This …
Yuma Foothills Sunset and Sand
I live in the Yuma, Foothills and I took a weird way home today and I ended up stopping at the edge of the desert to take some close up photos of the sand. I took photos every few steps to see if the sand would be different the further I got from the road. …
Magnified Bougainvillea
Here are some more microscopic photos. This time I went in close on the Bougainvillea plants outside the apartment. I also learned that they were actually Bougainvilleas. I had suspected it but, I never actually looked it up. I am in the foothills of Yuma, AZ and these things are everywhere. These bushes have massive …
Magnified Spices
These are some of my photos of microscopic or magnified spices. I just got my magnifying camera up and running again this past month so I’m going to town taking photos of all kinds of stuff. These are spices though. I photographed Tajin, Mexine, Italian spice, steak grilling spice and ground pepper. What surprised and …
San diego Sand
This weekend we went to San Diego. I had to get away. This past week at work was very stressful. Learning to work with WordPress shortcode is very frustrating to me. Sometimes I feel hobbled by its restrictions. But, anyway we went to San Diego and I took a lot of photos. I’ve really been …
Hieronymus Bosch vs. the Voynich Manuscript
I watch way too many art documentaries. Tonight I ended up watching a show about Hieronymus Bosch. He was this crazy painter in the middle ages who painted a. fantastical scenes of hell and sin and b. religious paintings. The show implied that Bosch used the symbolism of the day to illustrate how sin led …
Inktober Enchanted Drawing
This drawing is part of a series of drawings. I am drawing along with some of the prompts in the Inktober challenge. This is a couple who are enchanted with each other. I have been trying to incorporate a Celtic twist into each of the drawings I create for this challenge because I really want …
New Natural Zentangle Patterns
I’ve done a lot of work this weekend reformatting my books. When I first began creating these books back in 2012 I really had no idea what I was doing. I have learned so much since then. I have learned more about formatting things electronically, Photoshop and also my drawing skill has improved. I’ve been aching to redo these books. Sometimes I look at something I created and wonder, “How could I have done this so badly?” or “What was I thinking?” One of the volumes in the Fast Freehand Fills series is woefully small.