9/30 Days of Gratitude: Appreciating the Small Things …. That I can see a variety of trees when walking my neighborhood. I picked and pressed these leaves last week. We’re slowly getting into Autumn colors now. 🍂🍁 #30daysthanks

Christmas ornaments progress report: added gesso. Tried with a brush, and a scraper. Also played with intentionally adding texture. Some of my ideas end up covering all of the surface, while others let the gesso layer come through. #artstr #artprocess

8/30 Days of Gratitude: Appreciating the Small Things …. That my favorite donghua/Chinese animation “Heaven’s Official Blessing” has released new short videos with English subtitles 🎉 #30daysthanks

2 Saturdays from today, on November 21st, I have a vendor booth at the @bullishMarket = Rustypuppy Artworks. More #smallart again: ATC Rounds, Art Trading Card Originals, and, if I get them done in time, Christmas ornaments! 🎄 All of the ATC Art is already finished. For the ornaments, I’ll show you the process as I go along/AKA make it up. 😬 These essential oils flash cards I bought from a Half Price Books are the substrate/base I’m going to work on. Thicker than card stock, with rounded corners and a pre-punched hole make them perfect for this project. They do have a slick coating, however, so first thing is to spray a workable fiction both sides to hold all the stuff I’m going to glue to it. #artstr #artprocess

7/30 Days of Gratitude: Appreciating the Small Things …. That the squirrels don’t bury Every acorn that falls from the red oak in my backyard. 😮‍💨 #30daysthanks

6/30 Days of Gratitude: Appreciating the Small Things …. That pumpkin cheesecake exists. #30daysthanks

5/30 Days of Gratitude: Appreciating the Small Things …. That I live within an hour of several Half Price Books stores. 📚 #30daysthanks

Going through a 1916-1917 annual of The Boys’ Own Paper, a magazine published in the UK. This is from one of their Correspondence pages… I hope E.R. Chennell had a long, fulfilling life wherever he ended up. #vintage

2/30 Days of Gratitude: Appreciating the Small Things …. A rose and a message in a bottle from my man celebrating 28 years together. #30daysthanks

Finished watching Sugar season 2. Solid follow up to the first season. Still very film noir, even when you know his secret. Nice character callbacks to S1. Sugar’s case does conclude, but there’s 2 big loose ends regarding the cross-season storyline, so here’s hoping for a 3rd season. #tvstr #sugar

These are AT Rounds or Coins - 2.5” diameter, so the same width as artist trading cards (ATC) and ACEO (artist trading card editions and originals). Created with watercolor paper, watercolors, stamps, acrylic paint, Posca pens, Copic markers. #nostratc #artstr #smallart

When you want itty bitty lines, nothing beats a 0.05 pen. ✍️ Working on an art card original for the Rustypuppy Artworks booth at the @bullishMarket next month. #artstr #bullishmarket

RIP Captain. May your Earl Grey always be hot. #startrek #marvel #shakespeare

RIP Walter Koenig. 😢 I grew up with Checkov and was delighted to see Koenig again as Bester in Babylon 5.

Walter Koenig Dead: 'Star Trek's' Pavel Chekov Was 90

Walter Koenig, the boyish actor who played the Russian crewman Pavel Chekov on Star Trek, has died. He was 90.

#startrek #actor