Finally finished painting the drawing I posted last week of Jasmodus Gamma, so go ahead and drift away to the mushroom forest, the pastel beach, and the cotton candy sky.
Over in No Man’s Sky, I’ve left the vermillion globe and touched down on its moon. It’s a hilly purple paradise; curly plum colored grassland studded with blue, and gold above. Can’t wait to show you.
See you there.
My sister’s garden is so magical, with ducks and dogs and my little niece running around.
When it rains, which it often does, the sound on the corrugated steel roof reminds me of summers in New England, visiting family. It never rained like that where we grew up.
I landed here before I logged off last time and expected that I’d move on before painting, but there were some pretty, grassy valleys and flowering meadows, so I hitched a ride on a big turtle dog and roamed around until I found a nice view.
I especially love the mullein-type plants on this planet. I see different variations on that form popping up here and there and I think they’re so striking. I always select a mullein or five and let them stand in my own wild front garden, and they get a lot of attention. Much of it is even positive.
I’ve got quite a bit more of this system to explore. I haven’t scanned any of the planets, so I’m not sure what’s out there, yet. Hopefully something tropical. I’m partial to something tropical.
I’m playing catch-up today, so here’s one from two years ago, from my No Man’s Sky travel journal. I picked a system with six planets and did one painting from each of them over the course of a week; this was number six.
I remember I put this planet off for last because it was the one I was least excited to paint. The others had lush hills and active volcanoes and . . . well, I won’t spoil it.
Painting window swaps in my travel journal while I spend some time close to home this year.
Can you tell I’m trying to learn stippling?
And also blogging?
I’m kind of circling a post format I like, so bear with me, I’m very new to blogging. Is it a blogging faux pas to say you’re new to blogging? If it is I wouldn’t know because I’m very new to blogging.
Speed painting from window swap during a puppy nap.
I kind of hate the internet, but window swap is a gift.
I believe I mentioned I got a scanner for Christmas? Well it’s magical. I spent all Christmas Day scanning my paintings.
I did all the No Man’s Sky landscapes, the No Man’s Sky travel journal, the real world travel journal, and the everyday ink journal. They range from psychedelic interstellar landscapes to my sister’s magical backyard. Stay tuned.
I got a trio of POSCA markers with extra fine tips; white, and a metallic gold and silver. I wish you could see this in person; how the stars shine, and how the breaking sunlight is catching on Triangle Head and her cat.
The sunrise is coming along. I enjoyed laying the clouds in. They came out almost as I intended. I’m in love with this combo of volcano violet and indigo for the clouds. I added some cadmium red hue around the sun on the second page, and I think I’ll use it to show where the light is falling before I add the next layers.
We’ll get to that next time. All the blades upon blades of grass. The shadowy stone monolith and lush orange-guava ferns and two tall trees, down by the water.
It’s laundry day again, down in the furnace workshop. Everything’s sorted into little heaps and I’m here at the bench drawing the next page of I, Triangle Head while the machines chug away.
It’s that time of year again. Time to look back and look forward while the year winds down. Time to have a tiny little existential crisis and set a bunch of intentions and then just hold on for dear life when nothing goes as planned.
If you like lofi everyday adventures, or psychedelic space adventures, or watercolor travel journals, you will be pleased to learn that you can find all of those things here. This blog also features cats and plants, some real and some imaginary.
Oh and my goal is to publish 3 blog posts per week in 2026. Thanks for stopping by!
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