Wander and Paint — slow travel
100 Wild Dining Illustrated - Weeds & Wildflowers Salad Recipe
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[...] One requirement was that the resulting work had to either inform or visually explain an issue to a larger audience. As an organic, slow food and fresh food advocate, the concept for the "Wild Dining Illustrated" series crystallized after a few days of introspection focused...
Painting Dragons: A Journey Back to Creativity - Part Three
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[...] Parts of it still lives in the abstract world in my mind's eye. I can almost see its fragile tendrils gently reaching for me. This dragon wants to desperately be born. The only feeling I could related it to at the time was that of an echo of a distant dream, one that's right on the verge of being fully remembered, in full detail, all at once....
Painting Dragons: A Journey Back to Creativity - Part Deux
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[...] The crows feet at the corner of his eyes deepened. To my chagrin, he was now grinning from ear to ear. Either he was ecstatic at returning back home, or he’d actually just read my mind. Well. At the very least he had a sense of humor...
Painting Dragons: A Journey Back to Creativity - Part One
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[...]Shortly after that, I found my first host's listing on a fabulous work exchange website called Workaway. The property project listed was for a Bed & Breakfast that was also on Airbnb. My project was to design and install a mural for a small guest bedroom...
Wild Dining Illustrated: A Reportage Infographic
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[...] In the beginning, I racked my brain and dived deep into research rabbit hole trying find usable reference pics. In retrospect, finding a needle in a haystack might have been easier...