Life of Art SitRep #1

It exists! It being a shop of my photographs available at Zazzle on demand. I debated for a good while which print-on-demand site to use and chose Zazzle for the quality of its products and its quick turn around times.

North Window by ClaireSkinnerPhotos
See more posters at zazzle

If you've clicked through to my site from a feed reader recently, you may have noticed that I added a link to my shop in the sidebar. If you click the Shop link that appears directly below the header, you can view a flash panel of all my products: prints, postcards, cards, and an assortment of oddities.

Clicking through to my Zazzle shop will let you see my photos at their highest resolution. I hope you'll stop by, and please let me know if you have any questions or comments. The shop is evolving, both in design and content.


UPDATE (to the update): Ties are 30% off this weekend! Use coupon code PRZWNKSALE10 for Zazzle's Presidents Day Weekend Sale.


Details: 30% of the net tie sale price, 15% of the net apparel sale price, and 10% of the net mug sale price will be deducted when one or more tie, apparel, or mug items are purchased and the coupon code PRZWNKSALE10 is applied at checkout. The net sale price is the price of the product (excluding shipping and taxes). Offer is valid from February 12, 2010 at 12:01am PT through February 15, 2010 at 11:59pm PT.


Two years ago on TTaT: PBGV, it's not a sandwich

Feet

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I was in it for the footprints on the bathmat, but when I looked down and saw this, it made me laugh.


A year ago on TTaT: Chiaroscuro bear, bonus dog

Summer Knight

5. Summer Knight by Jim Butcher (4.25/5)
Book 4 of The Dresden Files

Wizard Harry Dresden is in over his head even more than usual this time around. Though Butcher is very good at giving you all the vital information you need from the previous books in the series, book 4 pays off places and groups of characters only glimpsed or referenced up until now.

Fast paced, engaging mystery set in Chicago and its surrounding mystical environs.


A year ago on TTaT: Physics jerk

Sketchbook, page 2

(Previous page)

The process of filling the 120 page cheap sketchbook by year's end continues:

"p. 12 of Drawing Ships by John Worsley"

A year ago on TTaT: I want to go to there

The return of the owl

On Tuesday, I told twitter: Saw something pale beige with a huge wingspan soar through the woods today. Scoped it w/some binoculars once it landed: an owl. Very cool!

Yesterday, the owl was back and I had a camera on my desk. After consulting her bird books, mom thinks it's a barred owl. Anyone know differently?



I've got loads more photos, but I thought you might enjoy some video. Amazing how still the owl's body remains as its head turns.


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A year ago on TTaT: The Light on the Bear

Winter water drops

I was heading down the hall to get a shower when I glanced into a room and saw windows covered in water drops from a heavy winter's rain. My brain flicked the switch for tunnel vision: the pattern of the drops, the way they diffused the landscape outside like an impressionist painting, the grid of the window screens. I quickly set my stack of clothes down on the bathroom counter and returned to the windows with camera in hand.









I particularly love the convex reflections of the window screen within many of the drops as well as the few droplets upon drops. The hint of amber edging many of them is the light from an interior lamp. To view these details more clearly, click an image to enlarge it.


Two years ago on TTaT: 50!, Polling places

Sketchbook, page 1

A few weeks ago, I picked up a 5"x7" sketchbook with 120 pages for $1.99. For that low a price, I figured I wouldn't over-think using it.* My aim: to fill it with drawings by year's end.

*Turns out that's not strictly true, so I've taken to consulting my shelf of drawing books to see what they have to offer: so far, a low-key way to practice.

"p. 11 of Drawing Ships by John Worsley"

A year ago on TTaT: Proof of work