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Artfully: Day 15

Halfway through my challenge to create new art every day in December. I will come back to the bunny vs. dragon story, but I’m still working on the second challenge that’s been meshed with the first. In order to learn the new camera better, I was challenged to work in RAW format, and use only … Continue reading Artfully: Day 15 →

Children’s Book Recommendations

Timely for Christmas, timeless for other events.  Let me put the following list in some context. You’re seeing the cleaned up version of two long-running conversations from a closed group for children’s book recommendations. This is something we seem to do on a regular basis, so I grabbed it, took names and identifiers off, and … Continue reading Children’s Book Recommendations →

Artfully: Day 14

I’ve been challenged to stretch my camera skills by shooting with only one lens setting in a day, using RAW format, and testing what different lighting does. But because today was a very odd day, that went… sideways.  I did manage to do some shooting. But I didn’t manage much if any post-processing, with one … Continue reading Artfully: Day 14 →

Infinite Pancakes

After last week and the very lively discussion that erupted on my fb wall when I asked a simple question, I decided to try creating a series of breakfast bread recipes. There will be about ten of them, ranging from sweet, to savory, and they all center around this: Biscuits =/= Scones Because, as those … Continue reading Infinite Pancakes →

Artfully: Day 13

Today, for my mother. Mom mentioned she hadn’t seen a lot of photos of my hometown, and I realized I tend to focus on the little things when I look through the camera, not the bigger pictures. So while we were out this morning, I took a few shots. I’ll do more when I have … Continue reading Artfully: Day 13 →

Covers and Writing

My #indiepublishing how-to contribution over at Mad Genius Club today is covers, specifically how to judge, find, and use art suitable for an ebook cover (planning ahead for print, as well).  Although this is a topic I’ve covered a few times (heh) this year, we continue to get questions about it, so I’ve done it … Continue reading Covers and Writing →

Artfully: Day 12

Today’s dragon was created with Adobe Illustrator, which is… I don’t know if I like this. Oh well. Work has been progressing nicely on Dragon Noir, I’ve added 3800 since yesterday, and plan to do another 2000 tonight.  Wizbun drew a sigh of relief when the flames from the tiny dragon stopped, and then dropped … Continue reading Artfully: Day 12 →

Review: Minis

Today I am going to do a… Hmmm, not sure what to call this. A bunch of mini-reviews, I guess. I’m up to my elbows in writing Dragon Noir, 1200 words already this morning, when I looked at the clock and realized I’d better stop a moment and do the blog. I’d planned to review … Continue reading Review: Minis →

Artfully: Day 11

This one’s for Dad, who requested one of my ‘one line kitties’ I used to do these with quill pen on watercolor paper. Today’s is digital, because I’ve been writing like mad and don’t want to distract my brain with more of the Wizbun story. That, and I don’t know where the rabbit and dragon … Continue reading Artfully: Day 11 →

Shifting Gears

That funny grinding noise you hear is my brain trying to shift from school speed to writing, full steam ahead.  Last night I felt rather lost, thinking: I’ve got homework, I am sure… wait, no.  So I stepped away from the computer, and picked up a stack of books to study beginnings, before starting Dragon … Continue reading Shifting Gears →