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Matt
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Art, games, writing.
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Making some cards.
A watercolour setup of paints brushes and pens on a table. A hand holds up a card with a painting of a red panda sitting in a branch, tail hanging down amongst some green foliage.
October 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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@czechgames.com has grossly decided to license Codenames with JKRowling knowing the funds go to support anti-LGBTQ+ legal teams. They even posted this hollow “reasoning”. Sad to say I’ll never buy anything from them till they stop. I recommend others do the same. #boycott #boardgames #bigotry
July 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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See! Even baby ones.
May 13, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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Beautiful day at the pond. I promise there were geese.
A hand holding a tiny watercolour book with a painting of a pond and geese. In the background is the same image, but without the geese. The artist is probably lying about the geese.
May 13, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Made a birthday card for a friend. A little koala. Haven’t used my new mini palette yet with the new colours but I’ll swatch that out in a few days.
A hand holding up a card in front of a set of watercolour paints and tools. The card is of a koala holding onto the top of a brown branch in front of some green foliage. The koala is furry, grey and most importantly: cute.
February 25, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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February 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Made this cute Valentine’s Day card for my boyfriend. Because he’s my favou-rat. Yeah, he loves the furry little guys.
A hand holding up a Valentine’s Day card with a watercolour painting of two cute adorable rats cuddling in a pink blanket.
February 13, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Finished my watercolour of Jim Deva Plaza and our rainbow crosswalk. It’s nice to know that we’ve come this far and even better to know we aren’t going to go quietly back. Trans rights are human rights.
A hand holds up a small book of watercolour paintings with a mini paint palette clipped to the top. The painting is of the street and plaza behind it. The plaza is Jim Deva Plaza with bright colours, potted plants, and most notable a large pink and teal megaphone representing the voice Jim Deva gave to the 2SLGBTQIA+ community in Vancouver. A book of water colour painting is on a table with some paint brushes and pens beside it. The painting is of a street, pride crosswalk and plaza. The plaza is Jim Deva Plaza with bright colours, potted plants, and most notable a large pink and teal megaphone representing the voice Jim Deva gave to the 2SLGBTQIA+ community in Vancouver.
February 2, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Blue Velvet was amazing tonight. Movie was great but the audience was awful. Many groups of men laughing during the scenes of violence against women. It was appalling. Media literacy is dead and the misogynists don’t see themselves as the villains they are.
January 25, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Did some relaxing at the Vancouver Art Gallery. It’s been awhile since I’ve been out of the house. It was nice be inspired for a little bit. Original painting by Firelei Báez.
Watercolour painting of a larger painting at the Vancouver art gallery. The painting is of a person obscured by an explosion of colourful layers of paint inset in an arched frame. The original painting is by Firelei Báez.
January 21, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Picked up some packages in Point Roberts. Couldn’t resist bringing my tiny watercolour palette with me. The bird didn’t want to hang out, and I had to invent a rock after smudging some still wet paint. But I think it turned out well.
A scene from the interior of a car looking out to a beach with a gravelly rocky shore on a grey day. A large rock and several logs cluster together on the gravel. Further in the distance are constructed vertical wooden beams jutting from the water. In the foreground A hand holds up a small hand size book of watercolour paintings. The page reveals a painted watercolour scene similar to the one in the distance (at least the artist hopes so) and a bird long flown away is also painted standing calmly on the rocks. Above the painting is a tiny palette of watercolour paints clipped to the opposite page of the book.
December 19, 2024 at 9:33 AM
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Recent line art I completed.

“Rest”
Just feeling in these times we really have to rely on each other. So take a moment and lean on others for support if you need.
A black canvas with thing white lines simply depicting several people leaning on each other in succession in the same pose.
December 15, 2024 at 7:52 PM