Yesterday I biked around town to find a frame for a painting. My quarterly project is a themed set of paintings. The goal of the series is to capture a few favourite landscape photographs as paintings. I've done three so far; two are 7x10 while one is a 5x7 on clayboard.

I don't have too much to write about with regard to how the project is going, but I will dive into framing my first painting. Overall, it's a satisfying feeling.

Ernst Haas - White Sands, New Mexico, 1952

This post marks the beginning of my next quarterly project. This also marks half of the year having passed, and I don't think that I would have noticed this without marking the time on a project-by-project basis.

At the beginning of the year, I set out to do one project per quarter. Originally, I planned on rebuilding my Laundromat application using Swift so that it would work with iOS and CoreMIDI, a new frontier for me in which I have zero experience. At the time of writing that post, my final project was to be determined; I had a vague idea of doing something painting-related. I'm not sure I want to do the iOS application anymore, so I'm going to swap it with the last quarter's project and go forward with a themed painting series. Let me tell you about it.

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