While browsing around the web a few days ago, I came across Jirka Vinse Jonatan's "Real Life" Disney Girls. I've seen these illustrations before, but on whatever website I had come across that was reposting these, someone in the comments was whining about how there was no Merida. Well, this ended up putting Brave and Merida on my brain, and made ... Read More

I was watching a special on Wayne White a while back and was inspired by what he was doing to junky thrift store art. It got me thinking about classic pieces of art and the ways you could manipulate them. Since I don't have a copy of Jean-Honoré Fragonard's "The Swing" sitting around and I didn't feel like printing out a copy of it, I decided to ... Read More

Birds are hard to paint. Did you know? I thought I would do a simplistic painting of a crow, on the scrap wood that we had floating around the house still. This was the last of the scrap boards and I thought a black bird would go nicely with a black board. I didn't want to do any clean up of the background of the boards. Perhaps because I thought ... Read More

I'm not a fan of licorice or anything that remotely resembles the flavor. Thus, fennel and anything anise are pretty much a no-go. Absinthe, depending on the brand, varies a lot in flavor but is always reminiscent of licorice. Of the few times that I have had it, I have not been a fan. I also did not have any magical or maniacal experiences ... Read More