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First Table Saw Project
About 10 1/2 years ago I bought my first table saw. I am on my second as I wore out that first one. I kicked off its use with a simple project. A cradle for a marble ball. I took a piece of 4×4, and ran progressively deeper cuts from the outside in. Nothing pretty.…
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Henry David Thoreau vs Montaigne
Langley Pond, SC. And Nala, my shadow for 5 years. Close as I can get to Walden Pond right now. “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 (“Essays”) “I should not talk so much about…
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Meet Earl and Merle
Earl (on the right), carved in 2019 from a piece of 2×4 (pine). Merle this past week, out of basswood to keep Earl company!
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow- Review
Super nerd woos the object of his affection, is rebuked. The town jock with matching horse (you can see him driving a cool truck or a flashy car) gives him a wedgie (super sized) adding to his humiliation. It is enough for him to skip town. It is later learned that the nerd left for…
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Book Review: Old Watercolorists Never Die, They Just Wet Their Sheets
I first read this a year ago, nearly same week. A delightful, easy to read book, self described as a practical book on watercolor. I think this year I approached it as “comfort food” and will probably revisit it in the future. Miller has a chain of art supply stores in the US SE (I…
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Welcome to the World of ‘This Can Wait’
Thoughts on retirement
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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 plus yellow). Direct color mixing means to mix the colors on the palette and paint the result right (directly) on the substrate. Indirect would be putting down a glaze of…
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The Eleventh Hour
The eleventh hour.Realize the time to accomplish is finite. Set prioritiestoss non-supportive activities. Visualize Virtualize. Bask.
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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, I would credit but I do not know where I found it).
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Supplies for Chinese Brush Painting
Getting started, this stuff isn’t as easy as it look (for me). More to come.