Happy #fursuitfriday 📷 @carohoss.bsky.social thanks!

Looks like I'll be going to FWA!

Picked up some stuff to do some tenkara fly fishing, should be fun to add another element to my outdoor adventures. Just need to make it through the dark winter

Some more watercolors, keeping at it. #watercolor #lineandwash

Another batch of watercolors. Getting close to finishing this notebook. #watercolor #lineandwash

Couple more watercolors. One very big mistake with linework but that's how it is sometimes. #watercolor #lineandwash

Grocery outlet had the good stuff today #antarctickrillmeat

Got a kayak and took it out on lake washinton. Had a great time but definitely havent developed the strength to go far yet. Hopefully will be able to do some kayak exclusive camping next summer!

More watercolors! Mainly mountain stuff. Mostly these feel alright to me. Some bits are better than others. #watercolor #lineandwash

Another couple watercolors. Abbreviated the fort a little bit. Trees aren't perfect but i dont hate them. The arches paper (on the left) is really nice for doing wet-on-wet skies, you can actually rework it a bit. #watercolor #lineandwash

A couple tries at a tree silhouette and sky sort of thing. Might keep revisiting this, good practice for branches, can finish in a single session, and a lot of room to improve and refine the style. #watercolor #lineandwash

Four recent watercolors. Been busy so haven't been able to spend quite as much time on paintings, but still doing a little bit daily. #watercolor #lineandwash

Campfiretails was really great this year, constantly busy, hanging out with new and old friends, helping make food with Vulpine, and just living in such a different amazing world for 5 days. Chess was again a highlight, will need to do more with it than just bring a board next time.

Climbed to camp Muir today, the highest point on Rainier before it gets technical, lots of fun lil guide huts and tents. Brought crampons but microspikes would have been fine, was a touch less steep than St Helens. The wildflowers are really beautiful this time of year.

Mountain today! Headin to Muir

Mountain time tomorrow...

Escaping for a moment by the river. #FursuitFriday

Climbed the summer route of St Helens today, did the winter one before. It's slightly shorter, but it wasn't snowed over, so I didn't need crampons, which made the ascent a bit nicer. Scree was bad in spots though. Was able to get the benefit of a glissade down, so maybe now is about the ideal time.

Climbin a mountain today #sthelens

New Mexico, kinda trying out a few things. Light foliage in the foreground over a darker background is something that I still need to figure out, would be much better if it wisped over more, but the medium doesn't make it easy. Could use gouache but that has such a different look. #watercolor

Another old building from Santa Fe #watercolor #lineandwash

Did granite mountain today! Its such a joy to spend time in the deeper trails once you get past mason lake.

Just a little thing from santa fe. #watercolor #lineandwash

Stopped by Rainier yesterday. Really cool, you see so much more up close. Probably gonna climb to Muir soon, get a real close look.

Some plein air sketches from Santa Fe. Definitely not as good as my home sketches, but given the time limits and restrictions I had I don't completely hate then. #lineandwash #watercolor

Love the spiky lads here

A few creatures I've seen in New Mexico

From a photo of Kamikochi, I'm still working on figuring out distant forested areas and rocks. A few things kinda worked but the foilage has some issues. Hopefully visiting some museums will give me some ideas! #lineandwash #watercolor

Next notebook is square! This is Mason lake on a foggy day. Tried a few different things and some worked out. #watercolor #lineandwash

Don't really like how the sidewalk and bench turned out on this one, but happy enough with the water and sky. That's the end of a notebook! Next one will be based off my own hiking photos I think. #lineandwash #watercolor

Went to Mason lake yesterday and it was super foggy, really cool. Also tried to do Bandera mountain and almost made it but a bit too much wet snow on the steep final push to the summit.

Lil train. Almost done with this notebook! #watercolor #lineandwash

Forgot to post a lil earlier but Tuesday climbed Mt Teneriffe via Kamikaze trail, and traversed to Si. Teneriffe is really beautiful, big fan of it over Si. Really great stretch on the Temeriffe side of the traverse. Pretty long day at 11.1 miles w/ 4300 ft elevation.

Another try at shadowy scene with colored light. Better than the last attempt but still havent fully figured out this type of lighting. #watercolor #lineandwash

Train stop Just a quicker lil one. I've liked some of my recent cloudy skies but this has some issues. Partially due to the paper - it pilled and that became a lot of spots, and the gradient didnt end up smooth - there are surely a multitude of ways that could be avoided. #watercolor #lineandwash

Got a wonderful piece by @keihound.bsky.social of some painting in the forest. Gonna replicate this next time Im camping.

Mt Si today

Theres stuff I kinda want to touch up but already overworked the shadows in the lower left and that area looks worse now, so just calling this one done. #watercolor #lineandwash

Couple lil recent watercolor practices #watercolor #lineandwash

Having a really good time at LVFC, really friendly vibes, good parties, about the ideal size. Don't like how unwalkable the rest of Vegas is but really a special con.

Last minute #FursuitFriday at #LVFC!

More watercolors from Japan photos. Some things worked nicely this time, a few mistakes. #watercolor #lineandwash

Some lil plant studies from a park nearby. #watercolor #lineandwash

Couple more pieces from Japan photo references. #watercolor #lineandwash

Couple lil plain air plant studies. Still figuring it out. #watercolor #lineandwash

Another from a photo reference. I think things went pretty well, just a few minor issues. Still working on getting more expression in the ink work. #watercolor #lineandwash

One other I did based on a reference from a photo book. Trying out a brush pen on the ink side of things. Hopefully can reproduce this level of piece (and better) outside #watercolor #lineandwash

#20 Under Shinra Manor Was trying to get something good for the shadowy areas and didn't spend the time on perspective. Though I could get away with it and the chair ended up too small. Definitely a mistake, gotta just learn from it. #watercolor #lineandwash

#19 Chocobo sage Lots of little details on this, lots of perspective practice. The painting side of things again was just adding fairly basic transparent color, which is fine I suppose for this sort of thing. Getting close to the end of this notebook (and game). #watercolor #lineandwash #ff7rebirth

#18 Observatory Complicated cylinders with weird perspective - there are a lot of errors with this one. Ref also has horrible lighting which didn't help the cross hatching, what I did ended up looking nearly as flat as the ref. #watercolor #lineandwash