Mary Writes About Making Stuff
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Here is where I write about stuff that I make. Sometimes I write about new stuff, sometimes I write about old stuff. Roll the dice and read one to learn stuff!
Brutal by Nature, Dainty through Tremendous Effort
Delicacy isn’t my strong suit but in this post I talk about challenging myself and drawing inspiration from others.
read moreMay Sketch Dump
This is a group of things that I have made that didn’t really warrant their own posts, so they got this one.
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Inktober 2016
I learned of Inktober two years ago. My first attempt at complying with the daily ink drawing mission didn’t go as well as I had hoped. Turns out I am a little lazy. Last year though, I did much better!
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Painting Paintings in a Painterly Way
I spent a lot of my artistic efforts in undergraduate staying away from oil painting and the reason that I always gave was that I lacked the patience for it. In this post I discuss going back to a similar style in order to expand my skills.
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Complementary Colors
Sometimes I have a hard time dealing with color. In this post I discuss self imposed limitations that help me experiment with it.
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Miniature Painting
My husband and I own a lot of boardgames and were interested in putting a creative twist on one of them!
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