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Lately I’ve been adding more color to my Hobonichi journal with colored watercolor pencils, which made me realize I should bring out my regular watercolors as well. It’s so great how remarkably well the Tomoe River paper handles watercolor paint. 🖌️✨
Yuzu has had a favorite box she likes to curl up in for a while now, but Anko hasn’t had one of her own. She tried this one out for a bit, but I think it was still a little too small. We’ll find one someday! 🐱📦
We had a delicious lunch at the Korean BBQ spot near our house today. The food was really good, and we ended up ordering way too much – as per usual! – but the leftovers will definitely be yummy. Since I wasn’t driving, I had half a bottle of soju, which turned out to be super potent. Thankfully we were able to bring the rest of the bottle home to finish up later. 🥢😋
It took some time to figure out how I wanted to draw the Inktober prompt “Ogre”. I ended up going with this version, styled like the fantasy maps I’ve been really into lately. Inktober is simple in theory, but pretty tough in practice, and I’m falling a little behind. Hopefully I can catch up over the weekend! 🖊️🗺️
For whatever reason, Anko has really taken a fancy to this bit of packing paper. So cute! 😄📦
I bought this new TTArtisan 23mm f/1.4 lens for my Fujifilm cameras. I had been missing the 23mm field of view (~35mm full-frame equivalent) from my old X100T days, so I decided to test this one out. Manual focus is no problem for me, and I love that the f/1.4 maximum aperture lets in plenty of light and renders a lovely shallow depth of field. The photo above was taken at roughly f/1.8, so there’s even more blur available wide open. My 27mm and 35mm lenses are still favorites, but for under $100 USD, this TTArtisan 23mm is hard to beat! 📸
Mariko baked this beautiful loaf of sourdough bread today. I can’t wait to gobble it up by making yummy sandwiches and toasts! 🍞😋
