Tiling Tests 003, Watermelon Vine Progress
Don’t forget to check out my Tiling Surface Design in Inkscape tutorial. VinoDeco_v151.svgHere’s the working SVG file as of right now. I’m often impressed that, at least from my vantage
Birdy & the Beads at Christmas Time
We had a few November December holiday market popups, we managed to snag a few photos. This included a prime viewing spot for the Walnut Grove Christmas Parade. Small but
Garden Late Fall 2025
The freeze has mostly halted things but I am still processing seeds and making seed packets out of squares of paper. I think I’ll make a donation to the Springfield
Site Reversion, Missing Posts & Calendar, Mistakes, & Technical Debt
WordPress had cropped up with “An error has occurred establishing a connection to the database,” again and I ended up reverting the site to an august version so the site
Bamboo Arch Trellis
I also wrote and posted a guide for how to build this and posted it on my site here with my tutorials. In this blog post I’ll feature more photos,
Tiling Tests 002
Some doodles and early tiling technical exercises to figure out the software behavior, this culminates in later refinements of this watermelon vine pattern as well as the tutorial I have
Early Tiling Tests 001, A Menagerie of Horrors
Been dipping into tutorials for tiling surface pattern design. GIMP I decided to spend time in GIMP first, testing the Layer Transform Offset and the Symmetry Painting tools under various
Ozark Chinquapin Seeds
These seeds came in from the Ozark Chinquapin Foundation earlier in the year. One is instructed to keep them in a bag in the fridge in lightly moist loose soil
Barbarian sketches 001
For D&D presently I’m borrowing from this older, more arctic design I never really got to play at length. A Moby Dick Queequeg type orc. Large, tattooed beefcake carrying a
Intent to Blog
I’ll use occasional and piecemeal blog entries for smaller sketches, process developments, art pieces, and interesting encounters. Old items will be backdated for documentation. I still need to set up
Elderberry 2024
I didn’t end up harvesting any elderberry fruit between the recent brush hog mow probably dusting everything with poison ivy and with me getting moved. It was the first year
Ozarks Greenways Frisco Highline Trailhead Bicycle Mosaic
I worked as a studio assistant to Christine Schilling of Mosaica Rose studio on Commercial Street, Springfield MO to help produce her mosaic commissioned by Anne Cox for the Ozarks
Animation is Concentration
An excerpt from Richard Williams’ The Animator’s Survival Kit that stands out in my mind. It bears out mostly, depending on the complexity of a task, energy level for the
