MartinLT

Semi-retired, enjoying creative work at Taylor Patterns, and a variety of hobbies.

“Thus, reader, I am myself the matter of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and vain a subject.” – Montaigne

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  • Direct Application of Color Mixing 2025-07-26

    Direct Application of Color Mixing 2025-07-26

    I made a wood (cherry) brush stand, and matching desktop palette. I used the 3 primaries, mixed for green (blue plus yellow) and orange (red…

  • The Eleventh Hour

    The Eleventh Hour

    The eleventh hour.Realize the time to accomplish is finite. Set prioritiestoss non-supportive activities. Visualize Virtualize. Bask.

  • Create Color Palettes in Procreate

    Create Color Palettes in Procreate

    I learned how to create a color palette from anything in Procreate. Now if I can only get busy creating. (original image is not mine,…

  • Supplies for Chinese Brush Painting

    Supplies for Chinese Brush Painting

    Getting started, this stuff isn’t as easy as it look (for me). More to come.

● About Me

I’m Martin, the creator and author behind this site. I enjoy a variety of hobbies in my semi-retirement. I wanted a simple, “old fashioned” blog to document my learning progress.

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