How is a pencil made?

  Artists and vendors are making lots of videos for us, instructional and behind the scenes.
i was sent

Wordless Wednesday: Iris in Bloom, after the rain

This one seems to have ice in the raindrops in its standard

Interesting link with parts of an iris: https://www.leonineiris.com/l9ie_partsoftheirisflower.php

Quaranitine Life with Max

  This is, as everyone knows and is indeed saying, a totally weird time.

  In March,

A Short Art Review: Dick Blick Studio Pencils

Originally published here https://wondersandmarvels-wonderfull.blogspot.com/2015/09/another-update-classes.html on this blog, this was done with Sharon's 12 recommended Prismacolors.  There's a new version below with Dick Blick pencils.

Midweek Post: New Art Tool and links on creativity

These are Prismacolor Art Stix, two sets, which i inherited from my mother in law.  i look forward to using them in laying down backgrounds - they are Prismacolor Premiere leads in stick form. 

Words on Wednesday: Binge Reading His Lordship

Current Reading

  A few weeks ago, i included, two in one book club edition Wimsey novels.  And about that time,

BOOM: You get a trophy! And you get a trophy!

Hi, I'm Boom. I was born between 1982 and 1997, which makes me a millennial. (Yes, that's right. Even by the most generously late definitions, there are no millennials who are teenagers anymore.) And I have been given a participation trophy.