18 Apr 2026

Weeknotes 39

These days, I am preoccupied with: 1) painting every day for plein airpril; 2) uh, that’s kind of it, actually, I thought there would be more to this list.

PleinAirpril

This is my third year of participating in PleinAirpril! It’s an art challenge to paint every day of the month. Despite the name, I am not actually painting en plein air but rather from photo reference, and am using this opportunity to focus on environments.

Digital painting of a car passenger view of a road, fields, and mountains, all under a blue sky with low, fluffy clouds. The colours are vibrant, and it’s painted with a solid brush without any blending.
Day 9

My goal this year is to paint 30/30 days. A 15 minute painting is better than nothing! I post all these in the sketchbook section of my website. Ideally, I would have an RSS feed for art, but alas. I’ll get around to it at some point.

Media

Reading

I am lately reading some Japanese mysteries—the last three books I read were Strange Pictures, The Man Who Died Seven Times, and The Decagon House Murders. I have no brain for solving them, so I’m always in suspense. I need to read some more Agatha Christie.

Watching

The most recent:

  • Pacific Rim, in theatres! It is a certified banger and the theme song rules so hard.
  • The Lord of the Rings trilogy (theatrical cut) — so many iconic lines and memes, very fun to revisit as an adult.
  • Project Hail Mary is a solid fun space movie! I’ve been listening to the track Time Go Fishing on repeat since, as well as Sign of the Times.
  • Hoppers is delightful and unhinged.

I’m not watching any TV, though my pile of recommendations continues to grow as I continue ignoring it.

Playing

Turns out, not much! I haven’t been playing Marathon because it’s way too intense for me to simply hop in and out of it, though I have a little bit of FOMO because the endgame stuff seems cool.

I did boot up Hades II earlier though, because they just released a patch with new content, so I am back on the Icarus romance grind!!!

Artemis II

WOW, what an incredible thing to witness!!! Space is so cool. I love the moon.

Digital painting of the recent NASA photo of Earth, half visible through the window of the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II mission. The interior is dark; the Earth shines brightly.
Day 6
Digital painting of the Artemis II splashdown, where the spacecraft has landed in the ocean and its three parachutes are beginning to deflate. It’s very roughly painted.
Day 11

Nice

A tree full of fluffy pink flowers on an overcast day.
nice

Stationery

I lied in the intro. I am also preoccupied with thinking about cute stickers and stationery every single minute of the day, etc. etc.

Next weeknote is the #40. Da big 4-0. I should do something for it.