The Realm of Rants and Ramblings: where profound insights and trivial complaints coexist in an uneasy truce, all while hoping to be mistaken for wisdom. It's a cosmic lost-and-found for thoughts that refuse to stay quietly in the mind.
Over ten years of blogging, I’ve changed names, designs, subjects, and selves. Looking through the old evidence reminded me why I keep returning: I’m still working on life, one...
I packed enough art supplies for several imaginary versions of myself, then discovered that the artist who actually showed up in Shenandoah mostly needed a sketchbook, a pen, and...
A simple watercolor texture exercise unexpectedly turned into a series of tiny storyteller artworks. These pocket-sized ACEOs grew from painted experiments, old ideas, and the hope that someone might...
The July Realmscapes newsletter is up on Substack, and this month it’s a downloadable zine: a small creative dispatch with art, writing updates, studio notes, and assorted oddments.
Realmscapes now has a Patreon. It’s not replacing the website, just offering another free companion space for creative updates, news-zines, and behind-the-scenes notes.
A limited-palette watercolor experiment using only cobalt blue, red, yellow, and black, with no mixing allowed. What started as a De Stijl-inspired color exercise became a lesson in design.
Training for the Pioneer Pride 5K, painting tiny watercolors, dreaming up LitRPG chaos, and migrating ten years of blog posts. Anyway, onward.
Rereading old blog posts has reminded me that blogging has never just been “content” for me. It’s a way of thinking, noticing, and catching small birds of thought when...
Hello friends,I wrote briefly in my last post about being in a creative slump, and to be honest, I don’t want to talk about that very much right now....