As promised yesterday, the “The drawing advice that changed my life” video! Although he’s talking about drawing, the advice clearly applies to creative work of any kind – or even skills of any kind generally. Broadly applicable. Much advice. Such good. /nodnod. What’s some good advice you’ve found on the internet? Doesn’t have to be […]
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Schools essentially closed to all but necessary students on Tuesday. Wednesday afternoon my school announced that staff could (and should) work from home unless rostered on for supervision. So today was my first day trying to sort out what this all-four-of-us-at-home-all-day thing looks like. My husband has a desk downstairs in the main living/kitchen area.
Mostly line edits, this week, tbh. So many line edits. Change Of Momentum and A Fox Of Storms And Starlight and Inklets oh my. But as part of the review packages for Change Of Momentum that are going out, I also made stickers! The cute lil stickies have quotes from the book on them, and
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Ermagersh, mind blown. Thankfully, le small daughter has PLENTY of crayons lying around (which, let’s be honest, she mostly BREAKS because SHE TOO HATES THE LOOK AND FEEL OF CRAYONS) so OF COURSE I tried this out. Tune in Monday for an epic crayon coloury Made-It 😉 Ha. (And yes: I will definitely be teaching
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I’ve been kind of binge watching art videos this last week, I’ll be honest. I mentioned on Monday that I’ve really been missing making physical art in the last year or two. I used to draw A LOT in high school (in years 11 and 12, I carried a sketch book around with my notebook
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Yay! We are back in the swing of things with the first Made-It Monday of the year! I *have* been making things in Jan/Feb, of course; they just weren’t particularly photographable or shareable. No one wants to see a spreadsheet as a Made-It Monday, for example, no matter how beautiful it is 😀 But! Today!
Made-It Monday: Quick Horsey Digital Sketch Read More »
A quick lil hack I threw together before work on Friday morning because I’d promised There Would Be Cake. The cake is so disgustingly unsound technically – I can list at least seven major problems with it just off the top of my head, not least of which being that it was cold in the
Made-It Monday: In Which I Create A Mess, But People Love It Read More »
Today, random sketching. Finally finished reading Macbeth with my class and we had ten minutes left of class. They’d come in the day before from art all keen and drawing-y, so I was like, cool, let’s illustrate! As some of you will remember, Macbeth is described at the end of the play as the ‘dead
Made-It Monday: Macbeth Read More »
Happy lil Dino is here to wish you all a happy holiday season, regardless of which holiday you celebrate (e.g. ‘the holiday of not celebrating other people’s holidays’, a totes legit option here). I hope you all have a great week, that no one in your family is awful, and that you can take some
Happy Holidays! (A Themed Made-It Monday) Read More »
Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit
Made-it Monday: *actually* not cake WHOA Read More »
