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There have been 127 posts since 2019, but I've been complaining on the internet since long before then.
Rings at Sunset
It's been quite rainy for the past few weeks so when the sun made a rare appearance today, I knew I wanted to squeeze in some time outside. It's still a bit chilly outside but it's always nice to fill another page in the sketchbook. I also got new window privacy screens that cast little rainbows around my living room when the sun is shining so I'm obviously obsessed with that.
April 14, 2023
Practice with Faces
I normally only pull out the col-erase colored pencils for a quick sketch or something that is going to end up covered in paint; it was a nice change/challenge to work on rendering more fully just with the pencils. I had originally intended for there to be 4 heads but exhaustion struck shortly after starting #3 — which you can tell as it's a bit off compared to the others. I foresee more faces in my sketchbook, though I'll have to up my endurance so I can at least execute a full spread properly.
April 11, 2023
The view from Main and Kingsway
Met up with some other sketchers and spent a couple of hours painting the view from outside a little coffee shop in Mount Pleasant. What a lovely way to spend the afternoon.
March 26, 2023
Waiting on applications to process. Waiting on the property manager to return my text. Waiting on the bank to send something in the mail. My whole life has turned into “Hurry up and wait.”
Monthly Review: February 2023
I managed 5 weeks of weekly blogging (#1, #2, #3, March 01, 2023
Feeling like I could stand to redesign my website. Or, alternatively, I could just... not do that, and take a nap instead. How EVER will I decide, I wonder, as I make my way to the couch with a blanket
La Poutine Week
La Poutine Week is an event where restaurants all over Canada can put forth their best poutine and people try them and vote online. Most of the participating restaurants are in Quebec, which is maybe not surprising, but there were 11 options in Vancouver — though 2 of them were technically on Vancouver Island, which is a wholly different place, but I digress — so I thought it would be fun to try some of them out. I got to 4 of the restaurants within a 2-week period and got to try 3 poutines. Only 1 of them was actually worth recommending, though, and now I think I've had enough poutine to last me a year.
February 15, 2023
It's been over a month since I quit smoking weed and I don't really miss it, but damn; the aquarium would have been LIT if I had been stoned. Though I probably would have been even more devastated when I found out they were sold out of poutine.
Weeknotes #5
- I finally pulled out my paints and brushes this week and got started on a new piece. It isn’t much to look at just yet, but I am excited to see where it goes and it’s really nice to have something new to work on.
January 29, 2023
Slept a little funny, I guess, and now I can’t turn my head more than an inch to the left. Thanks, I hate it!
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