Category Archives: Real Life
State of the Art (2017) #1
Continuing with my cleaning and organizing theme, I finally took the time over this weekend to put some items sitting out in my office/studio away in the closet and slightly straighten up my drawing table. The room feels much bigger now, even though it wasn’t as if I were cramped for space or anything. It’s […]
Continue reading2016 in Review
It’s New Year’s Eve and looking back, this year has been one of my most inactive for art in a long time now. I was frequently distracted, uninspired, lacking motivation, and just plain didn’t feel like doing anything, including creating art. I managed to write a long, multi-chapter fanfic (which I need to post here) […]
Continue readingPeace Offering
I have been incredibly lax about updating the site and posting any images here. I have the remainder of the January 30-in-30 that I did plus a few other pieces that I’ve managed to do in the past six months as well, but the truth is – I’ve been incredibly lazy in general. Just haven’t […]
Continue readingArt for the Paws
The local shelter in my area, Helping Paws, is doing an art donation/raffle event and I decided to take part. I donated my money to get a canvas, did my piece, and turned it in today. I’m a bit nervous because this is the first time I’ve put my art out there like this. I […]
Continue reading2014 in Review
Now that 2015 has arrived, I thought it made sense to do an art review of 2014. It was the year that I got back into traditional media instead of solely doing digital art. In fact, I’ve been enjoying using my paints that I’ve done almost no digital art at all this year, except for […]
Continue readingHappy Valentine’s Day 2014!
Felt compelled to offer up a heart to celebrate the day. Enjoy!
Continue readingPostcard Swap #2 – January 2014
So it’s time for another postcard swap as organized by Dawn Diamantopoulos. I was pretty eager to sign up again this time around and had been planning what I wanted to do for a while now. As usual, that changed once I actually started working on the postcard, but I’m very happy with how it […]
Continue readingThe Saturday Series – “Turn in the Road”
Over the past year, starting on 26 JAN 2013 and going through 18 JAN 2014 I’ve been taking a photo each Saturday morning of the turn in the road I live on. I’ve been posting them on Google+ under the tag #SaturdaySeries and now that the year is up, I made an animated gif of […]
Continue readingI live!
And I’m now under my “real” name. It feels weird to make the change from posting as “Lori” versus posting as “Rhyssa” since I’ve been using my online alias for so many years. Plus the whole starting on the internet (in gaming, no less) back when keeping your anonymity was the way to go. Along […]
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