JBtheExplorer
Native Gardener
It was suggested by @j.w that I make a thread to post all of my arts & crafts in one place, so here it is! 
I'll post here whenever I have something new to share, but I'll start out by showing some of the various arts & crafts I've made over the years.
I first started with pencil drawings around 2010. It was just a hobby to kill time. I mainly drew football players to start with, and then eventually moved on to airplanes as I learned more about shading and detail. You can see I incorporated color into some of my drawings. I think it worked better in some cases than others.
My favorite drawing by far is one of the last ones I made, the RMS Titanic. I drew this in 2017.
In the mid-2010's I started making things out of wood. Mostly small Christmas ornaments. I just used whatever I had around the house. I'd cut a slice of wood out of a branch in my yard and then draw on it with sharpie and colored pencil. I don't have photos of a lot of the early ones I made, but here's a couple I still have today. Because they were from branches, they were small. Usually between 1" and 1.5" in diameter.
Now in recent years, I cut my own 2" to 3" circular disks out of boards or any scrap wood I have sitting around, then sand them into the best circle I can get. I've also made larger crafts to hang on walls or on cabinet handles. Oh, and I taught myself how to paint. Aside from maybe elementary school, I had never picked up a paint brush until 2018. I have a love-hate relationship with painting. It's not my favorite thing to do, but I get good results from it. Plus, I like that there's no worry about making a mistake because I can just paint over it in most cases. I never sell anything I make. 85% of what I make is given out as gifts to family members. My mom and grandma get a lot of them because they genuinely love it. They've always loved crafts in general, and when I started making things, the requests started pouring in. The other 15% I usually make for myself. Similarly to when I first started drawing, it's a way to kill time, especially as winter rolls in and I'm looking for things to do.
The Grinch on my mini christmas tree.
Badgers/Packers logo
Jiminy Cricket
Bison, wolf, and fox arrowheads
Snowy Owl
My grandma's house. I made this one for myself. Lots of Christmas memories in this house. After I finished this one and shared it on social media, I then had to remake it 6 times for my mom, my aunts, and my grandma. I couldn't wait to get that over with.
Bald Eagle
A deer & pine trees silhouette
A Jack O Lantern. The face was carved with a pocket knife. This is the first time I ever tried something like this. In hindsight, I would've liked to change the pumpkin shape a little bit and make the stem a little longer too.
Great Horned Owl
Northern Cardinals.
An Eastern Bluebird and an American Robin on a River Birch.
A snowy barn scene.
My favorite painting so far: A winter scene of a covered bridge over a small stream with snowy mountains in the background. This is on one of those cheap 5" x 7" canvases.
I'll post here whenever I have something new to share, but I'll start out by showing some of the various arts & crafts I've made over the years.
I first started with pencil drawings around 2010. It was just a hobby to kill time. I mainly drew football players to start with, and then eventually moved on to airplanes as I learned more about shading and detail. You can see I incorporated color into some of my drawings. I think it worked better in some cases than others.
My favorite drawing by far is one of the last ones I made, the RMS Titanic. I drew this in 2017.
In the mid-2010's I started making things out of wood. Mostly small Christmas ornaments. I just used whatever I had around the house. I'd cut a slice of wood out of a branch in my yard and then draw on it with sharpie and colored pencil. I don't have photos of a lot of the early ones I made, but here's a couple I still have today. Because they were from branches, they were small. Usually between 1" and 1.5" in diameter.
Now in recent years, I cut my own 2" to 3" circular disks out of boards or any scrap wood I have sitting around, then sand them into the best circle I can get. I've also made larger crafts to hang on walls or on cabinet handles. Oh, and I taught myself how to paint. Aside from maybe elementary school, I had never picked up a paint brush until 2018. I have a love-hate relationship with painting. It's not my favorite thing to do, but I get good results from it. Plus, I like that there's no worry about making a mistake because I can just paint over it in most cases. I never sell anything I make. 85% of what I make is given out as gifts to family members. My mom and grandma get a lot of them because they genuinely love it. They've always loved crafts in general, and when I started making things, the requests started pouring in.
The other 15% I usually make for myself. Similarly to when I first started drawing, it's a way to kill time, especially as winter rolls in and I'm looking for things to do.The Grinch on my mini christmas tree.
Badgers/Packers logo
Jiminy Cricket
Bison, wolf, and fox arrowheads
Snowy Owl
My grandma's house. I made this one for myself. Lots of Christmas memories in this house. After I finished this one and shared it on social media, I then had to remake it 6 times for my mom, my aunts, and my grandma. I couldn't wait to get that over with.
Bald Eagle
A deer & pine trees silhouette
A Jack O Lantern. The face was carved with a pocket knife. This is the first time I ever tried something like this. In hindsight, I would've liked to change the pumpkin shape a little bit and make the stem a little longer too.
Great Horned Owl
Northern Cardinals.
An Eastern Bluebird and an American Robin on a River Birch.
A snowy barn scene.
My favorite painting so far: A winter scene of a covered bridge over a small stream with snowy mountains in the background. This is on one of those cheap 5" x 7" canvases.
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