Painting done and the piece is pressing before I scan it.

Sundiata Keita came out a little more cuddly than I expected.

I have paint now that exactly matches the interior smelt colors.

Took me years. One of these days I'll do some big burning scene with them.

I like to think so 🙂 luckily I ended up with a teaching skeleton after a friend retired from teaching bioanthro so I can keep my hand in for drawing in person. It's a bit harder for me with certain types of artifacts.

Sometimes it’s back to basics with osteo material like this palmar right hand, sometimes a site. Mostly if I don’t have a commission on, or am figuring out angles for one still, I keep my hands ready with more or less daily exercise.

I substitute because I have bills and the kids are fun to hang out with. I can somewhat chase the love of research feeling as I work on the local coloring books.

When I can afford to because substitutes are not paid well, even in California. *This year is much less than it was last year.

And if you're wondering why I don't pick up a local museum job- I've tried. I have more qualifications than both of the museum directors in my area and have applied and interviewed w/ both over the years. Both ghost my emails and one also actively avoids me at public events.

Blanche and freeze? Then you have a bit more time.

I know of another dig where a lecturer was sent home. There was no stick around until the flight home there though because he was sent home directly. As I recalled there was a major concern about the host institutions and farm owner being insulted. Brill dig other than that though

Balls. Just go be out and about in Bulgaria huh? I am super not surprised.

I used to ride my bike up to campus with a full size drawing board strapped to my side. I was still learning Old Norse at that stage so I'd go to the Scandinavian Library on my lunch break if I had an archive shift in the Bancroft that day.

It was also the first time anyone let me do illustration and archive work on the same site. Brilliant dig.

One of the excavators for that particular pit was from a mining town so it was dealt with swiftly and promptly. Part of the site included the campus observatory at North Gate and that particular pit was to explore the footing for a granite instrument stand. The mercury was science shrapnel.

I came through Notts Uni not long after that. I know exactly who you are talking about.

A female grad student- not me- broke his nose for his audacity while I was there.

UC Berkeley- shout out to Laurie Wilkie for holding on an on campus excavation. No flint but we did get mercury in a test pit first week. Chem dept didn't believe us until the Geiger Counter came out to confirm.