Went on a tour of the Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center in Scottsdale! I had to sketch quickly because we kept moving! #usk #urbansketching #conservation

Did somebody toss their cookies?

I #embroidered a plain canvas bag to make an #rpg kit for my PC Ned/Cosmo, a well meaning but generally incompetent druid that's obsessed with the meteor in #dungeonsofdrakkenheim. I made the #ogham staves back in the day, and it's super fun to use them in role play!

Two more birthday bookmarks! #embroidery

Excited to play games and drink coffee at our new go-to coffee shop Empower in Mesa! It's like @brickroadcoffee.bsky.social moved closer! 🌈♥️

My kids know an American flag when they see one – but they don't yet know all that it represents. When they're old enough, here is what I'm going to tell them:

🚨The kids in larchmont are doing rage songs🚨

My last #cosplay for the weekend! I just love being #GideontheNinth. Ran into another Gideon that gave me a bracelet (with curse words of course 😂). It was so sweet! (Alas, I also lost my skull somewhere on the convention floor! 😭)

Timed #sketches at #PhoenixFanFusion! They had a fun event where cosplayers modeled and anybody could come and sketch them with timed intervals. #cosplay #watercolor

Don’t forget you can just go draw a bug whenever you want.

Look at these amazing illustrations from @hemask.bsky.social! A most amazing artist at Phoenix Fan Fusion! I just kept picking up thing after thing (not in the photo is the pencil bag and Raven trinket pin!).

Phoenix Fan Fusion fun as Tippi Hedren from The Birds. Absolutely shocked how many people recognized me and came up to talk to me about the movie. Even young folks - gives me hope that the next gens are watching great movies

Even though there are no pets in this sketch, I see them. I see Jackie on her little footstool looking out the window, and Bowie waiting for me to grab his leash for a walk. #urbansketching #watercolor #sketch #pets

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

Please enjoy this ridiculously cute butterfly, which was about the size of my pinkie fingernail. It's in the butterfly family called metalmarks (Riodinidae). Males, like these, have reduced front legs and perch using only the rear 4 (females can use all 6). Sarota acantus; Costa Rica 🐙🌿 #insects

Take a breather and watch a #dog explore! (Taken at Boyce Thompson Arboretum, #Arizona 🏜️)

Boyce Thompson post drizzle walk and #sketch! 🌦️ #urbansketchers

Another #boardgame day! This time #Ethnos was my fave, but I really liked the sounds and tactile feels of Seaside.

Star Trek is this weird space-themed workplace drama where no one is allowed to have coffee or a water bottle. (Picard gets tea because he has a private office.) Everyone else is presumably dehydrated all the time, which works out because they have to take an elevator to find the nearest bathroom

OMG everything IS tuberculosis! This is a must read for everyone. It's good for your brain, it's good for your heart, and it's just so, so good.

It's so weird to have a new #watercolor set! I don't know these colors! I don't know their personalities or quirks! Painting with them is like going on a first date or something. (But way more fun than that!)

I got Roman Szmal watercolor tin and watercolors! So many pretty colors! So vibrant! 🤤🤩🌈🖌️

Board game day! I really enjoyed Shadow Hunters as a social deduction game because you don't have to bluff, it's more strategy and quiet interactions. #boardgames

Here's our little cardinal buddy from today! ( #urbansketching and dog cameo as well!)

#urbansketching at Boyce Thompson Arboretum. The sweetest little cardinal was hanging out with us the whole time! 🥰 #usk #birdnerd

Some #DnD doodles. You know, knitting as you float downriver to help fix a death curse. Normal things.

Kermit the Frog delivered an inspiring commencement speech at U. of Maryland: "Rather than jumping over someone to get what you want, consider reaching out your hand and taking the leap side by side, because life is better when we leap together"

Needed a transition out of my #wfh day, so I jumped on @scistarter.bsky.social and watched a flower for 5 min for The Great Sunflower Project. Mindfulness + #citizenscience! ♥️🌻

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

Just finished this! Such a sweet, weird love story between nature and tech. I got a bit lost in the third quarter, but it wrapped up very cool. Loved the main characters.

This book was about a pirate and a woman (same person), and it felt so real. It straddled the world of piracy in such an honest and human way. Thank you @rchetypes.bsky.social!

Realized that stuff that was annoying me for always being in the way was actually just being put it in the wrong spot! (I'm sure there's a lesson in there.) Anyway, 5 min #diy project!

Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know! openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac... This was actually a pretty fun process - I appreciate a thoroughly designed quiz like this! ... And mashing these four characters together is pretty on point! 🤷

A good rule of thumb for life is to imagine what Jean Luc Picard would think if he found out what you were up to. Would he approve? Or would he give a long speech about how you've gone astray? NOTE: This works well for moral quandaries, but should never be applied to dating or sex

@cityofmesa.bsky.social created a really cool neon garden that opened tonight! #urbansketchers #watercolor

Please enjoy these shelter pups reacting to getting a kiss. Some are bashful, some have butterflies, and all deserve approximately 10 million more. 14/10 for all

The first 3 letters of 'Sweden' and 'Denmark' spell out 'Sweden.' The remaining letters spell out 'Denmark.'

hey can you come back later, i'm defragging my tulip fields

One fun thing about this ep is that sometimes the characters make the same face I am when Barclay is talking and that is validating

Backyard News Network: Bird Seed Block Tumbles!‼️😲

Finally finished the #Farseer Trilogy! Book 1: interesting world building, there's potential! All well written. Book 2: kind of depressing, dark, and no relief 😮‍💨 (not my cup of🍵) Book 3: first half MC annoying, but then it got interesting and different! Enjoyed the last half of 3 the most of all!

Happy dog, owl-themed brunch with @mbirdface.bsky.social, and an ibis. Fairly successful day trip to Flagstaff.

Sunflower update! They are waking up!🌻 If I have one gardening success this summer season, this is a good one!

Wild! Tropical Blast Pop-Tarts (1997-circa 2000): Part of the "Wild!" line of Pop-Tarts, this one had a "tropical" theme, featuring blue and yellow icing, shark-shaped sprinkles, and an orange-strawberry-pineapple-lemon flavored filling

Before having sushi at my favorite place the other day. I like to draw before I eat. When you're very hungry and waiting for your food, time passes much more quickly 🤪 . . #sketchbook #mixedmedia #sketchinghungry #daruma I’m a bit sad that uskweek2025 is over now. I really enjoyed it.

Boi seeeeee! ♥️