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art Illustrating Nature courseI've been slowly making my way through the Illustrating Nature course by Laura McKendry on Domestika. I wanted to start dipping more into how to use…
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writing Thoughts on mending
Several years ago, I brought a cardigan with me to work to mend on my lunch break. It had been on my to do list for ages, and I thought that sitting…
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art Revisiting ceramicsFinally got around to taking photos of the pieces I made in a 1:1 workshop with Lien Nguyen Ceramics The donut is officially the coolest thing I’ve…
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art JellyfishI've been mostly sketching traditionally lately, so here's my first go back at digital painting for 2023. Painted in Procreate using the Perfect Oils…
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writing My planning, writing and sketching tools
I've made an updated version of this: My planning, writing and sketching tools - 2025 --- The other day I was trying to explain the various tools I…
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writing The "Ugly Stage"
When creating a piece of art, there's often an "ugly stage" where it hasn't all come together yet and it doesn't make sense as a whole. I feel like I…
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books Books I've read in 2023
I'm trying to be mindful of reading from a more diverse set of authors this year. I usually keep one non-fiction book and one fiction on the go.…
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notes Optimise for curiosity, not productivity
The past few years (2019-2022) I've avoided setting goals - carrying, giving birth to and then caring for two children really doesn't leave a whole…
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books Books I've read in 2022
This year, I've somehow gone from reading very few books to back up to pre-kid levels. I've put this down to actually getting consistently decent…
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Start here
I haven't decided what to include here just yet. So far I'm just building things, which I'll detail in About this site. Also, here's what I'm up to…
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writing My Obsidian workflow
I try to hold myself back from going too far down the rabbit hole of trying out too many different apps in search of the "perfect" one, to avoid…
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notes Digital Gardening
A digital garden is an alternative to blogs or essays, in that they aren’t organised linearly by time. Posts or notes might start as incomplete ideas that will be added to or evolved over time, growing more connected to each other.