
Arsenic mining is forever... Hound atop arsenic spoilheap, still splendidly bald despite about a century of abandonment. The heap, not the lurcher. The lurcher is not particularly abandoned.
Poisonous spoilheaps are apparently a LOT of fun.


Makes a big difference photographing it using the sunset mode.
Ages ago I offered a painting in a charity auction. The winning bidder requested a camping scene from Garth Nix's Old Kingdom books. I sketched…
I bought the wooden box unfinished (it's made of pine) and painted it. It might look a bit better if I had not packed the electric sander away…