Blend Until Smooth Has a New Home

If you're looking for the next strip in Blend Until Smooth, you can find it here from now on. I started a new blog devoted entirely to the strip.

I still post every Friday, but I wanted to keep my 'toon separate from this site because theagilebadger.com is primarily my illustration blog, and I want visitors who come here to see what's happening on that side of my business. And it's hard enough carrying a story arc across a full week without having the posts mixed in with my blabs and other posts.

So check it out! www.blenduntilsmooth.blogspot.com

Back to the drawing board.

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Another Italy Watercolor

Cartooning is fun, no doubt. But I'm susceptible to other distractions as well. Here's a watercolor I just finished from a photograph taken on our honeymoon. My wife took the picture on a day-trip we took to Montalcino, a tiny Italian hill town famous for Brunello wine.

The final work is about 13 x 22. You can click on the image to open a larger version in a new window.

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Corniglia, Cinqueterre, Italy

My wife and I just returned from a two-week honeymoon in Italy. We delayed the trip a few months after our wedding hoping that we'd miss the peak tourist season.

Didn't work.

Cinque Terre -- five tiny hill towns perched precariously on cliffs along the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea -- has a reputation for being quiet and relatively undiscovered by tourists. Something changed recently because even in late September, we fought shoulder-to-shoulder crowds and fully booked rooms. We got lucky and found a small apartment room in Corniglia, the smallest and hardest to access of the five towns. This is a watercolor scene onto al mare from the narrow street below our room. Every day starting around 9AM, hundreds of tourists march down this street to the bella vista beyond, but by 7PM or so, the town quiets down and becomes quite magical.

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