weekly retro #78: making art, taking trains

after spending a lot of today on trains and out of town, i almost completely zonked out for the night as soon as i got home. fortunately for you, i caught a second wind. fortunately for me, it happened before 10pm. after finishing my latest one several days ago, i wrote about my last few pixel art paintings. i've started my fourth, and i am hoping to not take nearly as long as i did with my last one. i hate to say it, but the more you do a thing the better you're going to get at it - and this applies to me too unfortunately! this is even true of pottery. while there's a good chance my first teapot may not survive two firings, the fact that i made a teapot that actually looks like a teapot is a huge win for me. next week i start round three of my favorite wheel throwing course and then i'm taking time off from regular instruction to work on my first real collection. maybe including teapots! besides spending less time online and more time on my offline art, i've also been trying to go…