#sargassos

Gonna be super busy for the next week. Tonight and over the weekend, @boarfeathers and I will be camping out at the horse rescue, to take care of morning and evening feedings while their wrangler is out for his hunting season. After that we immediately leave for our own season. It will be nice to hang out with the horses again, and then get out of service for a while.

In honor of spending the weekend with our newest buddy, the very sweet and very handsome Crow, I took another crack at this horse meme.

Blank can be found here —> https://www.deviantart.com/juniravenhall/art/Horse-Art-Style-Meme-BLANK-865221674

Join the HPC! Travel the country! Ride giant dog-like beasts! Try not to die...

I’m still plugging away at pages, but I haven’t got much else in the way of Chapter 1 concept art. However, I did need an element for the page I’m currently working on, and I figure that’s worth sharing!

Ok! I guess we should start our first post with introductions/explanations about our project!

To start, we are Jenna of Boarfeathers, and Alee of Sargassos here on Tumblr. The hyperlinks go to our respective art and nonesense blogs here. We live together in a very small mountain town usually found right around the L in Colorado. While we aren't really a PROPER homestead, we are working towards getting a place where we can have the space to do all we'd love to do. For now, we're doing a little rural town homesteading, and honing what skills we already have as we do it.

While this is all a learning process, it's not entirely new to us that we decided to jump into on a whim. Alee grew up on a small ranch in Arizona and has been working with horses, cows, and dogs her whole life, on top of learning gardening and small home farming from her mum. Jenna has been gardening with her parents since she was small, and has raised rabbits and chickens in the past. Sure, some parts of it are new, like the beekeeping (which we failed at our very first attempt at) and the smithing, but hey, it is all part of the learning process here!

Besides the two of us, our little house is home to:

Alee's dog Tsavo, a labrador/doberman (we think?) mutt who is too smart for his own darn good,

Berlin and Pippin, a pair of male californian (again, we think?) rabbits who were rescued after being dumped by their original owners (don't do this, people. Domestic rabbits were not meant to be released into the wild. NO pet is.)

Six full grown chickens of vicious and troublesome personality.

And eight 4 week old chicks who will hopefully never meet the cranky hens (and will hopefully have very different personalities, if we're lucky)

We also have a beehive, but it currently stands empty. Unfortunately our location doesn't produce very many NATURAL bee flowers in town, and our garden is just not quite up to par to sustain bees yet. That is one MASSIVE project for summer 2017. Perrenials EVERYWHERE.

Spring of 2017 is upon us, and lets face it.....it's still snowing in Colorado. But no matter! There are projects to be started, and projects to finish! We have a batch of crab-apple jelly to be made soon, chicks that are growing up WAY fast, and garden beds to be laid out! Alee is determined to put a hammock in the front yard if it kills her. Not to mention we kind of just turned our kitchen into a makeshift greenhouse to start some flowers and herbs for the coming season.

By all means, come hang with us on our random adventures in rural homesteading! Comments are welcome, heck, any advice is greatly appreciated! Questions are also welcome, though we can't guarantee we'll have the answer. We're still learning as we go ourselves!

Posting more soon, cheers!

Boarfeathers and Sargassos-Moose

This is it! The final set for FebROARy! I made it!

When you anger your smol friend, but they forgot their step-ladder.

Woo woo, Dinovember!

The first piece for my 2021 Dinovember coloring book is Hesperornithoides!

I tried starting with this one, but didn’t like how it was turning out. So I stepped back, and started doing other random pieces from the list, and revisited it later. In the meantime, I learned that a mono-line outline brush I had made worked really well for feathers and scales, so when I got back to this, I was able to do more uniform, less awkward looking feathers.