Month: August 2024

What?

Yeah, site hosting is finally complete. You wouldn’t notice a single thing. But under the hood things have changed. I moved to a different web hosting provider, and on a cheaper plan since, I just don’t need such an expensive plan for a hobby site anyway. Heck. Even a free blog will do at the moment really. But it’s all done now. Save myself a couple of hundred bucks… Web hosting prices have certainly gone up over the years… Together with energy prices I guess? The war and all….

Anyway, that means more money for art supplies I guess?

And maybe I’ll put up a proper About page and everything soon. But for now I’d better get going to work!

It’s feels like I’d JUST made a special effort to post here, talking about my move to using Cara, doing weekdaily art sketches… And treating Cara as a mini blog… Well. It’s now Aug.

I’ve not stopped… Still doing those week daily sketches, though I’m not exactly always motivated. But it still gets done anyway and I guess that’s what matters.

I’m just sitting around in a stall today… Finally had the medical appointment that I’ve been waiting for since like… 4 months ago. Got some fancy and expensive inhalers…. And things just ended up taking much longer than expected, as usual. Just finished my lunch and a work call, and now I’m free for the day to sketch!

Only that I am feeling tired and uninspired again…. What’s new geez.

I packed new supplies to bring out today. Panned out all my shiny holbein gouache (like literally the golds, silvers, and bronze paints) into a tiny palette. It isn’t fully dry yet and made a big mess on the lid but yeah ok… Gotta let it dry more tonight. I also bought my new shinhan gouache set out… Which I may or may not use…. Idk how I feel about urban sketching with gouache… But I guess the only right answer is to give it a try….

I’ve also been wanting to put together like a granulating palette for outside use, and the urban watercolor LE set by schmincke really was the nail in the coffin for me. I just wanted to use those colors outside, in a sketch and wash sort of style. So yeah. I put a couple of half pans together in a little palette, 12 colors. Yeah it’s a much bigger foot print than my usual tiny 3d printed palette but meh. All good I think. I just have a crap ton of palettes with me now, and a very heavy JustGoSketching bag with all the supplies… And oh yeah I bought my ipad along too.

Which is why I’m writing this post. I have to use my iPad now that I’ve lugged it out right?

So yeah….

Gah. I feel like I’m not fully making sense now. Tired. Brain never quite really woke up today I think… Meh. I’ll think I’ll change spots… Either look for someplace with drinks (hopefully not too expensive), or with something sketch worthy. Idk. I bought out my larger, A5 Potentate sketchbook today. Partly why I switched to the JustGoSketching. That can fit a bigger sketchbook. Hmm yeah. That’s all for now. Till next time!