Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working. - Pablo Picasso Hello, welcome back to The Art of Caesura! Thank you so much for joining me for the 10th birthday celebrations of the blog over the past month. Phew! I need a break from all that partying! It's been a Trojan effort to get those posts together - with a few very late nights - but well worth it to commemorate such an achievement. I did some brainstorming last year of ways in which I could celebrate the 10th year of the blog, and one of the things that I decided upon was to organize a painting competition. I have never even entered a live painting competition before, much less organized one, so it seemed like a fun challenge to set myself. Today, we're going to condense almost 6-months worth of painting competition into one post, and over the next month or so we'll take a deep dive into how I painted my piece. I started by spending some time thinking about my goals for the painting competition. Mos...
Welcome back to the culmination of the 10th Birthday Celebrations of this blog, The Art of Caesura!! If you're only just joining us (or if your memory is as bad as mine is), we kicked off the celebrations with an Infographic Reterospective , then we looked at ALL of my favourite miniatures from the past ten years of blogging, and then, just last week, we looked at all of YOUR favourite (and least favourite) posts of all time! Phew! So what could possibly be left to do for the birthday celebrations? Oh yeah, PARRRRTYYYYY!!! A few weeks ago, for the actual 10th birthday of The Art of Caesura, my wife very kindly surprised me with a cake and balloons!! She relayed a funny story about her buying the "10" balloon from the shop and the lady asking 'is it for a boy or a girl' after answering "uh...boy", my wife found herself sliding down a rabbit hole as the lady asked what this 'boy' was into: gaming? super heroes? My wife felt the need to come cle...