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Category: Art
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Walnut Hull Ink
If you live with Black Walnut Trees, you know all about the way the hulls stain your fingers when you try to reach the elusive but delicious nuts inside that baseball sized green hull. If you think about it, anything that stains can be used as a dye – or an ink. As a chemist…
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MinInktober
It’s October, and that means several things. One, my birthday is coming. Which is, ok, not something I fuss over at my age, but this year my gift is extra special so I’m excited. Two, fall foliage and wine-scented days shuffling through crisp leaves and the brief perfection of fall weather… which Ohio is not…
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Space Dragon
Between the bulk of their own ship, and the vast formation of Others, which was slowly breaking apart and heading for them, it appeared out of the empty space. Streamers of light and not-light undulating in an eerie coherence, the vast body of it coruscating as it moved between them, the Bouler’s Dragon never even…
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Coloring Nebula
Standing here staring at the screen. I’m working on art, and I’m wondering: what color are nebulae, anyway? All the images we see are artificially colored, so far as I know. Like this series of images from the Hubble, of the Crab Nebula. I could lose hours wandering through the image gallery on that site. …
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Wood of Aloes
Some days, I have no words. The mind is… it’s not empty. It’s too full. The words tangle up on themselves and won’t flow.
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Handkerchiefs
The Ginja Ninja asked the other day, as we were out together for something else, if I would please take her to the flea market. I knew what she meant – we live a few miles from two of the largest flea markets in the world, but that’s not where she wanted to go. They…
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Spaceship Design
So I’ve been experimenting with space art again. It’s a lot of fun, which honestly is enough in and of itself. But when I start digging into rendering spaceships, it’s not just for fun. When I create science fiction cover art, I want to use ships. The distant views of nebula or galaxy are amazing,…
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A Love of Beauty
I have many wonderful friends. Some of them inspire me to be a better person, to become a little more like them, as I see in them traits I admire and desire to emulate in myself. Jonna Hayden is one person I am happy to put on a little pedestal (just a little one, so…
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Toilet Troubles
“I told you to put the lid down!” He shouted as he reached for the plunger. “I did!” She wailed, standing in the shower as far from the toilet as she could get in the small room. “Back, back damn you,” The plunger swipes were only increasing the magnitude of the problem. Her scream echoed…
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Journals
I own a lot of journals. There’s a meme going around about writers and unused journals, pens and other paraphernalia and I feel so called out. But really, as an artist and a writer, journals, sketchbooks, markers, pens… all tools of the trade. Many of mine are cheap and utilitarian, but once in a while…
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Walk Through the Door and Hit the Ground Running
It’s February. How did that happen? Oh, right, the Earth revolves around the sun and every day/night cycle we’re a day older, will we, nill we. This last month has been… productive. Very productive. The downside of that is that I feel like I’ve been through the whirlwind and dumped out on my head, but…