The office 🏢 #office #inside #moderndesign #interiordesign #austin #texas #atx via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/C3RYC-2IUb2/
The office 🏢
“I’m On Fire” – final cut! 🎸
After vacillating a bit on the final arrangement for my I’m On Fire cover, I finally headed some advice from Teddy Roosevelt and picked a direction.
While I liked the extra guitar part on the previous take, I also felt like it was a bit too much. It sort of changed the song from a “singing” song into a “guitar” song.
After a fresh listen, my buddy Joel had a helpful suggestion.
I’m wondering if you could use the clean version but bring in the guitar at some point under the whistling to add a little depth there.
I tried it out and… bingo. 🎯 This was the best of both worlds. The guitar comes in at the bridge and mixes things up at just the right time. Thanks, Joel.
My kids say the vocals are pretty “echoey”, but I’m hoping that adds to some mysterious ambience. Believe me, you are not ready to hear me singing raw just yet. 😉
Coming soon to a streaming service near you. 😎
Miracle plants 🪴❄️
Somehow, these kale and collard green plants survived the last polar blast unscathed. They seem like miracle plants. 🪴❄️ #gardening #wintergarden #winter #urbangarden #austin #texas #atx #shotoniphone #polarvortex via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/C25fAqzuPPN/
Austin skyline sketch ⾢
Among other elements, my first sketch of Austin produced a quick and simple downtown view using a ruler tool.
Inspired by that look, I decided to give downtown its own focus along with a more abstract river using Sketches app’s spline, fill, and ruler tools.
Here’s the result. I kind of like it! Yeah, it’s rough, but it’s supposed to be! 🙌
Austin river sketch ✍️
Playing around with this Sketches app on my iPad, today’s goal was a to learn how to “trace” something by hand. But what? I needed something simple to start.
The Colorado River snaking its way through my city of Austin, Texas came to mind for its irregular curves. Using a Maps screenshot of Austin and layers in the Sketches app with my nifty new Pencil, I got a rough but realistic hand-drawn shape of the river.
Then I used the app’s ruler, fill, and text tools to make a quick, fun sketch of my town by neighborhood.
Here’s the project with the Maps screenshot layer shown.
Mental Break Town 