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Accepting and Embracing

Life hardly ever goes the way we want it to.  With each encounter and each relationship, nothing is set in stone.  Accidents happen and life moves on.  With my life, music has always been there.  So for one of my scratch boards I am putting together a collection of lyrics (from many many songs) to create a sort of story about how life has come and gone.  It does not necessarily apply to only my life.  Obviously some lyrics I have chosen express the thoughts of the  artists and musicians  who originally wrote them.  The purpose of this project is to explore language and the meaning of lyrics.   As for the medium, I have always been fascinated by small writing.  With the scratching utensil, I can fit an immense amount of detail in a small area.   Whether or not a picture will be included is still in process.   For now, the small words will represent that from far away things are/can be insignificant.  But when you get up close and personal, things are much more important a

23 Goals for My 23rd Year

So I won't be listing all of the goals I wrote down for myself, which makes the title of this post a little misleading.  But you get the point.  Anyway, I thought this was a good idea.  So far it actually has provided incentive and so far has kinda kept me on track (or on the mindset of doing/accomplishing them anyway). Here are a few good ones that I'm working on: Get rid of unnecessary things. Go outside more. Log travels and accomplishments. Sell artwork. Keep up with blog/website. Start illustrating and painting in Adobe programs. Take more pictures of people. Try new things. Take advantage of and use the things I have. Break bad habits/create good habits.

Council of Kings Map

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Measuring about 46" x 60", this is the map of made up lands (names taken from other Science Fiction books/movies).  Made for a group of friends who came up with the idea for a new game/map that was big enough so they could use push sticks to move pieces around.  It took me awhile to finish since I was working on it on the side of everything else.  Not bad for my first time, but I think if I did another one, I could make it look much better.  Either way, it will be fun to play on.