This ain’t a blog post

I’m on vacation and driving through multiple states for a family wedding. But I have plans for when I get back home in a few days. Mostly gardening and yardwork. The website is coming along. I’ll be able to officially share it with my followers soon. When I’m no longer spending most of my free time on it, I’ll have time for other things like making music, doing prompts from The Artist’s Guide, a book I inherited from my mother, and planning my next big piece. I had tried to complete my last piece in under a year and ended up spending close to two years on it as a result of having a kid. This next piece will have no such deadlines. It will be another larger format piece (16” x 20” is about as large as I can manage these days,) and a recreation of my 2013 piece Valkyries and Hornets, which followed the simple rule of light colors for large shapes and dark colors for small shapes. I have a lot more pencils now than I had then, so first I’ll go through them and try to sort them into the smoothest light-dark gradient I can make. Then I’ll blow undiluted ink on my paper. And then I’ll begin the process of coloring in the biggest shapes with the lightest colors and progress from there until the piece is fully colored in. Anyway, this is turning into a blog post, so I gotta go.

6/11/25
-PGB