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...

Welcome back to The Art of Caesura! Today we are continuing our celebrations for the Tenth birthday of The Art of Caesura! So far, we've been enthralled by the infographic , and we marvelled at minis from the past ten years. Today we're casting our net wider than just looking at minis, and, where last week was mostly about me and my favourite minis, today is all about YOU dear readers. Today we're  going to do something that I've never done on the blog before: we're going to look at all of YOUR favourite posts. To be honest with you, I really am not driven by views anymore. I always hope that my audience (you) will find something of interest and a have pleasant little diversion (a caesura , if you will) for a few minutes of a Friday, but I don't go back and check the blog analytics anymore. I just keep writing this blog for myself - and yourselves. There is one post, however, which holds a special place for me specifically because of how popular it became...but...