Wendy Herdman

Artist, atheist, yarn-tangler, cancer survivor, learning to love my own insignificance. gender: mostly irrelevant

[Jessica Rosenkrantz @nervous_jessica]

our first Patreon post discusses our Radiolarian project and how we are generating the structures https://t.co/zgoLMNP5xo

[Wendy Herdman @Knotyoureality]

Another day painting in 100F weather. Happy with the background work on this one. Rushed the rest, though, as I was getting rather desperate to be done and able to go somewhere a tad cooler for a bit.

[Wendy Herdman @Knotyoureality]

Four day weekend, four morning out in the 100F+ heat sketching and hiking and petting other people's dogs.

[Wendy Herdman @Knotyoureality]

Morning warm up out on the hiking trail. Was supposed to just be a simple scribble but ended up throwing a little of everything in my kit at it before it was done. 4x6" on toned paper.

[Wendy Herdman @Knotyoureality]

These are times, when it's the little/big things going wrong that being single and very alone sucks. No shared experiences/advise to lean on, no one to pat my hand and tell me it'll all be okay.

[Wendy Herdman @Knotyoureality]

Very soon my boss is going to be wanting to touch base and I'm going to be very tempted to tell him about my college dorm-mate whose dad used to praise her in public for how she never let his abuse ruin their father/daughter relationship.

[Wendy Herdman @Knotyoureality]

Ink over watercolor, approx 4x6" Plein air sketching out at local riparian preserve.

[Wendy Herdman @Knotyoureality]

Plein air sketch, ink over watercolor on rag paper approx 4x6' Continuing to push myself to try and paint the things I'm almost certain I lack the skill to achieve in order build those skills more quickly.

[Wendy Herdman @Knotyoureality]

White crayon as (relatively) convenient resist/mask in field.

[Wendy Herdman @Knotyoureality]

This morning's big challenge, painting a very green view without using any actual green paint. Yellow, blue, brown, purple, orange, red.. but not a drop of from-the-pan pre-made green.

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

Please enjoy my nosegay 🏳️‍🌈 #tinyposies

[Wendy Herdman @Knotyoureality]

Continuing to work on my tree portraits.

[Wendy Herdman @Knotyoureality]

Another morning sketching at the riparian preserve.

[Wendy Herdman @Knotyoureality]

I'm sure my high school math teacher wouldn't be at all surprised. Guess I'm heading back to for one final bag later this week.

[John Fugelsang @JohnFugelsang]

A "Performance Review" is where someone says that you're doing a perfect job; and we'll need you to start doing it differently.

[Wendy Herdman @Knotyoureality]

Almost ready to start loading the new gravel into the path. So weird to have finally reached the point of plants being reliable growers instead of fighting to save any little scrap of green that managed take root.

[Wendy Herdman @Knotyoureality]

Weeding. And weeding. And weeding. And weeding again. Slowly digging everything out.

[Wendy Herdman @Knotyoureality]

@PhantomKitsune @meganroseruiz I just leave the first page blank. Silly, perhaps, but it works for me. A lovely pristine first page helps me feel free to fill the rest with whatever crap I want. :)

[Wendy Herdman @Knotyoureality]

Slowly digging the garden out from the overwhelming weed load resulting from an unfortunate combination of an uncommonly wet late winter and needing to focus on my health, not gardening, this spring.