I Decided That I Was Going To Teach Myself How To Paint Clouds In Preparation For An MFA Project That

I decided that I was going to teach myself how to paint clouds in preparation for an MFA project that I'm working on. This is the first of those studies. Click through for the big version.

(Still alive, just busy. Graduate school does that. Who knew?)

All of my posts take place late at night/early in the morning, it seems.

So here's some awful pictures of what I'm working on in the studio right now. I need to get either a better camera or learn to take better pictures, or both.

Rebloggin' this over from my Weirdo site, because it took longer than normal, and I am pleased.

So today was my first mushrooming trip of the season. It's a bit late in the year, and that was a bit obvious, so I think it will unfortunately be my last trip this season.

However, I did extremely well. I got two bags of hawk's wing mushrooms (sarcodon imbricatus), a local choice edible, two bags of porcinis (boletus edulis), an internationally-famous choice edible, and three huge bags of chantrelles (catharallus cibarius), which is also internationally known and my personal favorite. I have never gotten that many edible mushrooms in one go, and I am incredibly excited. To top it all off, I picked a bag full of tiny sub-alpine strawberries and raspberries.

I AM GOING TO MAKE SOME COOKERY. SO MUCH COOKERY.

(I am actually really careful about mushrooms; I've been doing this for at least a decade, and I never stick anything in my mouth that I'm not 100% sure about. Don't stick unfamiliar things in your face, and don't eat mushrooms if you don't know what you're doing.)

I am digging the heck out of painting again.