Recipe Time: Chocolate Chip Cookies

By on Aug 24, 2021

First things first! This recipe is from sallysbakingaddiction.com. Go there and check it out. She breaks down exactly why this recipe works. She points out what is important and why. I cannot speak to her other recipes but I will tell you this one is amazing. These where how mine turned out…     So I’ve always wanted to make my own chocolate chip cookies because I love chocolate chip cookies. I love them too much. I love them so much I hate them. When I was very young there was a neighbor who made perfect chocolate chip cookies and that ruined me. After experiencing perfection I’ve been chasing that dragon ever since. I’ve attempted cookies a couple times but they never turn out right and I just get frustrated. The other day I was chatting with a friend online and I asked what his favorite recipe is right now and he sent me this. <— Seriously...

Art History: Chuck Close

By on Aug 23, 2021

  “The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s...

Quick Pics (08.23.21)

By on Aug 23, 2021

Picked a color palette but mostly just watching cartoons.

By on Aug 18, 2021

  I’ve selected a color palette. Still just taking my time. It’s hard not to be disappointed with a lack of progress but that is what I want to focus on with this. That and I’m trying to push what I can do with the blending of grays. I am primarily using a 20% cool grey but then blending it with white to get different levels of gray. Some lighter, some darker. I’m trying to do that with the blues too but not as much.     My daughter and I are watching Death Note. She is at the age where even getting her to do something she likes can be a chore. It is ok, I try to use the nights she flakes out on me to do stuff like make enchiladas. So far I’m impressed with Death Note. I heard about it when it came out in 2006 but I was already past my anime phase at that point. I later heard that they made a live action movie of the series which generally...

Quick Pics (08.17.21)

By on Aug 17, 2021