Category: art & photography

  • urban sketch, three

    urban sketch, three

    In the meanwhile, my personal month-of-sketches art experiment continues unabated and, as of nine days in, triumphant. To be clear, not even most of the pics are gems. I have been partaking in the act of suburban sketching, which doubly adds to my challenge of (a) seeking out something to sketch and a place to…

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  • panoramic, two: art expedition

    panoramic, two: art expedition

    I went for a long walk on Friday.  I could sense that autumn-proper was ending. I mean, partially this had to do with a coherent ability to look at a calendar and see that as we enter October things tend to sine-wave pretty erratically between bitter cold and the autumn warmth reprise. But in there,…

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  • urban sketch, two

    urban sketch, two

    Crossposted on Notes for a Sketch It’s hardly worth logging a few messy sketches but I will say since declaring that I was going to start a daily art challenge and do a sketch every day… well, I have. The afternoon after my last post I made my way to the art store. There are…

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  • panoramic, one: autumn-ish

    panoramic, one: autumn-ish

    If you’ve been reading along, you may already know that about a year ago I went backpacking in the mountains and returned with a whole bunch of great photos. A few of those photos were panoramic pictures. This is not a post about those particular photos, but rather the inspiration and adventures into code brought…

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  • urban sketch, one

    urban sketch, one

    Crossposted on Notes for a Sketch It has been a few years since I plunked myself into the blank pages of a sketchbook for my reprisal into the plein air arts. It was an adventure that took me down a rabbit hole of watercolours and personal expression through ink and pigment that has been hard…

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