Packing for my wetland delineation certification course next week.....too many field guides?? We won't be doing macroinvertebrate bioassessment that I know of, but I kind of love them. Eek...and now I want to bring a dragonfly book too jic. What would you leave behind?

Love is love. Sometimes love is cats.

There's a storm brewing #onmyeasel this morning. No clue where this is going to go, but I need to snap out of a funk, and art is my pathway.

Finishing up a new piece in my Danger in the Depths series of dangerous underwater critters. This one is already spoken for.

The lid of my palette has a good bit to say about who I am. Some things change, but others remain the same. I'm still a sticker person.

I have been having a great time painting holiday rodent ornaments! Each one is a 4in original acrylic painting.

Depressed about the state of the world? Try whimsical onesie bowling with friends. It won't fix anything, but you will feel lighter, and ready to keep going.

Don't eat the paint! Yes, cadmium yellow has cadmium in it. Though synthetic pigments have been much more common, heavy metals are still in paint. Without labeling required by regulation, I wonder how many toxic substances would be in art supplies? Something to think about as deregulation looms.

I never really got into Twitter, and I am not sure if this platform will be a good fit for me, but Raja thinks I should give it a shot! (Actually, he couldn't care less, but isn't he cute?)