I sat in Stantec Tower during my #lunch break today and watched some folks enjoying the outdoor rink at Rogers Place

8r4d The sunrise from my #office tower reflects amazing on the #downtown #yeg skyscrapers.

Walking from my parking to my office this morning the sun was just coming up over downtown so I thought I’d share that moment in a video montage.

squwetchy Day 7 of #artadventcalendar and another seasonal-themed #watercolour for my daily sketch… freshly painted and ready to fill your feed with a bit of holiday spirit!

squwetchy December 6 and for #artadventcalendar this afternoon I devoted a full page #watercolour spread to this orb spider and her shadow, referenced on this -30C winter day from a photo I took in the fall.

squwetchy Fuzzy bear for another daily #watercolour

8r4d Something is afoot in the empty lot across from my office. I suspect the construction of a #snow #maze is in the works.

squwetchy December 4 of #artadventcalendar and it’s finally warm enough in #yeg to go outside and look at some of the holiday decorations around the neighbourhood. #watercolour

It’s been really really (no, really!) cold for the last week and a puppy I know has been too timid to tackle the Canadian winter in -40 winds. Sunday morning was a bit of a reprieve so we snuck in a 4km walk between cold spells!

castironguy Oatcakes, because yum!

I started an art blog earlier this year as a way to record some of the stuff I was thinking about as I learn #watercolour painting. It's turning into something more than that, though I don't know for sure what yet. I added a new post tonight:

Microfiction or microstories are bits of #writing exercises that are meant to stretch the creative muscles. I'm having a creative December, so I'm gonna be posting lots of art and words and other related stuff. With my microstories I like the idea of committing to a work for 30 minutes and fleshing out a story in 200-300 words and then moving on. And forcing myself to do it from a random prompt makes it so that I don't write 30 stories about time travelling robots. Today's is kind of an allegory for a kid stumbling onto social media. See a theme here?