The Making of Jeanne St. James’s Double Dare Book Cover
I spent the weekend teaching myself new skills, like putting together a video showing how I design a book cover. I’m hoping this is the first of many. Share this post:
Mobile Union’s Hero Watercolor Pencils
It rained all weekend, so I spent some time with a set of Hero watercolor pencils that I have and made myself a color chart. See above. My first set of watercolor pencils was by Derwent, and it had 6 colors. It was what I could afford at the time, and they were pretty good. But this Hero set that I have has 72 watercolor pencils, and they cost about the same as a Derwent or Prismacolor 12-pack or 24-pack….
Clean Slate
A migraine plagued me on New Year’s Eve, so I’m starting 2017 a bit late. This is my first blog post of the year! Popular culture calls 2016 a rough year; it was for me, too. I do a personal year-end summary every New Year’s Eve, and 2016 was brutal — so many changes and uncertainty career-wise, among many other things. So I look forward to seeing improvement this new year. Without getting too detailed about my goals, I do plan…
Bloggin’ ‘Bout My Generation
Two of the TV shows I watch remind me of how old I am. Not just old, mind you, but super have-gotten-irrelevant-and-obsolescent kind of old. They are Younger and The Great Indoors. Younger is about a woman in her 40s, like me, who has to re-enter the work force after being out of it for so long, but even though she’s capable, no one hires her because of her age. After being mistaken for someone 20 years younger than she…
Out with the Old, In with the New
Last week my work computer finally died. It was almost eight years old, and it had been performing badly and acting up the last several of those years, but I’d kept using it anyway. All of my ongoing work was on there, and because it takes too much time, cost, and trouble to move computers, I’d stayed on the older computer as long as possible. I was in the middle of several projects when it died — not literally and…