~~~ For several decades I made my living as a research and development technician (mostly electronic and mechanical, some computer gaming) while doing artwork when I could; now I get to be an artist. The art I used to do was mostly drawings and paintings done with India ink and colored inks, or strange creatures and machines made from various plastic materials. These days I mainly carve, what I mainly carve is jewelry, and what I mainly carve things from are natural materials of all sorts. I still do digital art, though, both vector and pixil based, including fonts for computer printing. What next? I'm mostly working on improving my carving, but I want to make some art using the machine tool and computer knowledge from my old "day job".
~~~ I do take commissions, and occasionally trade art. If you are interested, send me a note.
Current Residence: The Far West (or The Left Coast, some say)
Favourite genre of music: Filk (a tradition of the science-fiction community)
Operating System: Various, mostly Apple
Favourite cartoon character: Hobbes (as in Calvin and Hobbes)
Personal Quote: Be excellent to each other. And... Party on, dudes! (... Bill & Ted)
Don, your art is fantastic, it’s nice when we retire and have time to devote to our artwork, your “English Gentleman” photo is really great. I too have been a Photoshop user since it came out, the expensive subscription model had me going, but check out Affinity, you’ll never look back. I like to pass the good word around.
I'm glad you saw it, i uploaded it mainly for you..
it's called Aseb (which means reeds/bamboo in Arabic not sure if it's the reason for the name just noting similarity) it's a later variation on the royal game of Ur that doesn't have the safe spaces dedicated to each player at the end of the path.
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Thank you for the llama. 
Happy Birthday.
