adventures

of aplantfancier

Tag: storytelling

  • on a rainy monday

    Have I really never painted my own garden? I always mean to, but somehow the kit never comes out unless I’m working on something more formal down in the furnace workshop, or on the road somewhere. Thought I’d paint out my own window for a change.

    Yesterday was a washout, so I posted up at the little desk in the kitchen and played around with my folding travel brushes from Rosemary & Co — this was all done with a squirrel mop and a filbert instead of my usual size 4 round.

    Variegated hosta, spiderwort, wild violet, random turf grass, and creeping charlie. Just like this painting, it’s kind of a mess.

    Moleskine and watercolor.

  • welcome to golden glow

    Hello! I’ve been away on vacation three weeks, simultaneously fulfilling two longtime dreams; building a catio and attending a barn raising party.

    The second was, of course, in spirit, but we built a free standing cat house into an existing (beloved) deck and replaced two-thirds of the deck boards in five days with help of heroic visiting family in possession of know-how and skills and if that’s not what a barn raising party feels like then I don’t know what is.

    And fans of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers in the audience?

    It was really really fun, is what I’m saying, and now I’m “styling it,” because I’m that person. The white deck chair cushions are already covered in muddy little pawprints. I let them dry, and then brush them off with a straw hand whisk broom while the puppy barks at me.

    It’s like this with most new things and then she gets with the program.

  • vermillion

    jasmodus gamma // vermillion [sic] globe

  • oyolariv d25 1

    foggy planet

    about

    watercolor, fineliner, brush pen, Moleskine watercolor sketchbook

  • sunset

    I call her Triangle Head.

    about

    watercolor, fineliner, brush pen, Moleskine watercolor sketchbook

  • autiiq n41

    about

    watercolor, fineliner, brush pen, Moleskine watercolor sketchbook

  • migates yush, arid planet 1

    about

    watercolor, fineliner, brush pen, Moleskine watercolor sketchbook

  • mauropu, planet of light

    Please enjoy, while I go on staycation and build a catio, some early, dorky pages from my No Man’s Sky travel journal.

    watercolor, fineliner, brush pen, Moleskine watercolor sketchbook

  • throwback thursday

    Since I wrote yesterday about how much I’ve been practicing and trying to level up as an artist, I thought I’d share the first page of my No Man’s Sky travel journal today, from all the way back in 2022. This was about a month after I started painting. For comparison, I shared more recent entries in this Moleskine here and here.

    See you next week.

  • taking my time

    I’m wrapping up the detail today on this view of the vermilion globe, so I’ll have that for you tomorrow, but I wanted to share one of my progress scans in the meantime, from over the weekend.

    This one’s really coming together, and I’m taking my time. I’m looking forward to a day when I can think less, flow more, but for now I’m still learning, and sometimes the going is slow.

    Over in No Man’s Sky, I built a gate on the paradise moon Piporo, and I’m dying to warp to the next uncharted system.

    Whatever I find there, I’ll be sure to bring you the highlights.

    See you on the other side.