Stop the press! I have a huge announcement to make today! Welcome to the first post since the blog turned eight years old last week! If you didn't get a chance to join in the party last week, you can check out the festivities here . But, if you can believe it, I have even bigger news to share with you today... My third child was born last week - two and a half weeks ahead of "schedule" - she just couldn't wait to join us, and already, we can't imagine life without her! Welcome to the world, baby Isla! See you next week on The Art of Caesura!

Come one, come all, to the EIGHTH birthday celebration for The Art of Caesura! When I started this blog , I had no idea that it would having the staying power to still be here eight years later. But I have found that my enjoyment of creating the blog has only grown with time! I certainly have less time to devote to the blog than I did in the pre-kid era, but I have found ways to continue to make it what I want it to be, to be relevant for me, and (I hope) enjoyable for you! Let's kick this party off in the time-honoured manner that the best parties are kicked off: with an infographic featuring cutsie pastel anthropomorphized sea creatures. Yes, I really outdid myself this year! Let's slow down for a moment and take a more reflective look at what's been going on over the past year.  For anyone keeping score, there have been 416 Fridays in the past eight years...but there have been 421 blog posts. That means that I've never missed a Friday, and 5 times I released TWO blog...

Come away, O, human child! To the woods and waters wild, With a fairy hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping  than you can understand. - W.B. Yeats Greetings and salutations and welcome back to The Art of Caesura! Today, we're taking a closer look at the completed Fae from Descent: Legends of the Dark - whom we first met in last week's post .  BUT  Even more exciting than that (sorry little guys), is that next week is the blog's EIGHTH BIRTHDAY! Can you believe it? No, no you cannot. Nor can I, nor anyone else for that matter. But that does not change the fact that it is true! So be sure to tune in then for our annual party in celebration of 2023 on The Art of Caesura! Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.  I mentioned last week that these little Fae dudes painted up very quickly and easily for me. The airbrush is ideally suited to the colour blends that I envisioned on these guys. The other details (stars on their "wings", details on faces...

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame. - W.B. Yeats Hello hello!! Welcome to 2024, and to a whole new year of The Art of Caesura, the internet's favourite weekly hobby blog* (your mileage may vary) It's been a rip-roaring season, what with many minis from the past year coming out to wish us well a few weeks ago , and then last week we had a little peak at some of the things that might be coming to the blog in the year ahead.  Today we're picking up right where we left off a few weeks ago - back into the realm of Terrinoth with more enemies from Descent: Legends of the Dark. Before we get into it, if you'd like to read some of my thoughts about this game and its aesthetic, you can check them out here .  The Fae in focus today, are some of the early enemies you meet in Descent and the miniatures are totally crazy! I have read many dissenters online (see what I did there) who aren...

Hello one and all and welcome to this special New Years Eve-Eve-Eve post on The Art of Caesura! Regulars 'round these parts know that I save all the schmultzy New Yearsy stuff for the blog's birthday in a few weeks' time, so today we get to revel in hobby past, present and future.  Airbrush Last year at this time I had just got an air compressor for my crappy "Wish" airbrush. I threatened, at that point, to get a 'proper' airbrush later in the year, and two weeks ago I did!  I will devote a whole post to talking about this bad boy ( Harder and Steenbeck's new Ultra 2024 ) once I've had a bit more experience with it but so far I'm in love! I have always said that I don't adore the look of overly airbrushed minis (when they're too smooth and lacking any texture) so don't worry, that's not in my future. I am happy to use it to quickly apply smooth and interesting basecoat blends, as well as some special effects (Object Source Lig...

Ho ho ho! Welcome back to The Art of Caesura! It's that time of year again! Time to don our Santa hats and see who comes out of the woodwork (like a spirit of Christmas past) to wish us a Merry Christmas.  To keep you merry and bright, you can also check out my Christmas Quiz that I prepared last year.  "O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, how lovely are your branches" I hope you're not on the naughty list! What's black and white and red all over? This guy! Red hat, white beard, twinkle in his eye - must be Santa! "There must have been some magic in that old silk hat they found..." "...Ere the world from chaos rose..." Well! That was bumper Christmas post this year! Do check out last year's  Christmas Quiz if you're looking for a fun family activity, and I'll see you next week to ring in the New Year! Watching: Leave the World Behind (2023) - Netflix Reading: Priests of Mars - Graham McNeill Next Week: 2024!

‘Tis like the howling of Irish wolves against the moon. – William Shakespeare, As You Like It , Act 5, Scene 2.   Welcome back to another Friday on The Art of Caesura! My goodness, we're getting close to the end of the year, but we still have a couple of juicy posts before we bid farewell to 2023.  While today's post (the Friday before Christmas) would typically be my Christmas post, I'm actually going to schedule that post to come out on Christmas Day so that you'll have a little bit of The Art of Caesura in your life while comatose on turkey and merging with the couch.  Today is the second parter to last week's post. We're looking at the first minis that I have painted from Descent: Legends of the Dark : Wolves! I went through my whole painting process in last week's post . I explained how I am trying to use the airbrush more and I even used oils for the first time!  With their large, exaggerated details, these wolves not only painted up quickly, but were ...