Wayward Ink

Carry On Wayward One Sketchblog of Khaiya

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man the crazy thing about babies is that like, some people would think that reading a baby a book about farm animals is teaching them about farm animals, but really it’s teaching them about the concept of a book and how there’s new information on each page of a single object, but really, beyond that, it’s teaching them how language works, and beyond that it’s really actually teaching them about human interaction, and really really it’s them learning about existing in a three-dimensional space and how they can navigate that space, but actually, above all it is teaching them that mama loves them.

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happy mother’s day!

i wrote this post while reading to my first baby, who is now 8!

here’s my ko-fi to get treats for me and my kids <3

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Little Things: Peppermint Tea

For something of a change, this is a little digital speedpaint I did July 2022 actually… of a photo I took long long before. Peppermint tea, made with leaves from my garden. I’ve been a big Peppermint Tea fanatic for years and years and years. It was one of the things I took on as a personality trait in elementary school in fact (something in and of itself to unpack perhaps). I took a box of…

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Little Things: A Purple Plant

This purple leafed plant on my mom’s porch painted in August. I loved to visit my mom’s porch this summer with my boy. He plays in the little pool of water my mom has set up warming in the sun. He drops rocks into it, plop, plop, plop, savoring the sound and the little splashes. Meanwhile I usually get to rest a bit, chatting with my mom while she makes sure there are always snacks and tea,…

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Little Things: My Rose Bush

Starting a little series of Little Things that I appreciate on my blog, trying to pair each bit of writing with a piece of my art. https://blog.wayward.ink/2023/09/little-things-my-rose-bush/

Excerpt:

Painted last April. Certain times of year, the leaves get edged with red, and the light filters through in a certain way that I love. The colour of the roses is a lovely salmon sort of colour, that quickly fades in the summer sun to white. I claim over and over that I do not like pink, but there is a certain range of colours, soft, orangey-reds, reddish-oranges, that I love. A sort of dusty…

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A branch I can view from my porch, and some progress shots. My toddler also painted some.

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My rose bush leaves from my porch.

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Hourly Comics Day 2023

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My 2 year old trying to offer me a grape…

Smudged the last one.

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Forgot to post this one… Procreate paintup of another of my mom’s hiking photos.

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Me last Summer, tryin' to take VisDev classes while having a toddler

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The Courtyard

For this piece, I tried to pull colour and style mainly from Tyrus Wong and a bit of Paul Felix.

I attempted to emphasize Tyrus Wong's brilliant use of lost and found edges, and Paul Felix's great lighting and both their atmospheric feel.

I’ve posted some colour wheel studies I did in preparation to my wayward ref blog here: link

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Another walk and paint day with friends at Stanley Park, this one fairly recent. Some big improvements from the last one but it still varied quite a bit from my intentions, a long way to go yet!

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Some plein airs from Camping at Cultus Lake!

The last two are sort of… further thoughts/studies of the previous two.

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These are from a walk and paint outing with friends at Stanley Park. I got disjointed from my intentions and overdid it trying to layer it on to correct things… watercolour doesn’t really work like that!

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Some Tove Jansson and other misc studies.

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Some bright experiments… I would call the last one a WIP.

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Our view from our BnB porch on Mayne Island