Michael Ormsby

@michaelormsby.bsky.social

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Interests: Hiking, nordic skiing, bicycles, woodworking, photography, watercolor sketching, architecture, urbanism, classical music, vintage iPods, Alzheimer’s support. @michaelormsby@mastodon.art

Sketch of the monastery of Saint John in Galicia, Spain.
Sketch of Sant’Andrea, Mantua, Italy.
Watercolor sketch of Cathedral in Reggio Emelia, Italy.
Watercolor sketch of an old church in Northern Italy.
Watercolor sketch of an eclectic neoclassical church in Venice along with some fountain pens and paint pans
Skiing on an unplowed road in winter.
My spouse cross-country skiing near Mountain Dell Reservoir on a cloudy afternoon.
A vintage 100+ year old hand plane in bright red.
Disassembled vintage hand plane
A pair of old classic nordic skis getting some maintenance in the laundry room. Quickwax, Grip Tape, and wax remover.
Three powertools: 2 drills and an impact driver, along with a watercolor sketch and paint pans.
Antique woodworker’s handplane covered in grime and brown varnish. Will look much nicer after restoration. And there’s a somewhat amateurish watercolor sketch of it.
Sunny day in the mountains, distant peaks partially covered with clouds, snow covered trail, woman walking downhill.
Kichen table with a woodworker’s plane and an artist’s in-progress watercolor sketch, as well as two watercolor panels sets.
A table with bag of wheat berries, grain mill, dough machine, and miscellaneous bowls and measuring tools.
Risen dough with additional nuts, seeds & fruit chunks.
An automatic dough mixing machine on kitchen countertop. Manufacturer is Bear.
Sunny winter day facing a mountain with a stand of coniferous trees and some sandstone formation.
Sunny day on a snow covered mountain trail. Juniper trees, larger coniferous trees in the distance.
Bare deciduous trees with a few coniferous trees, sunny winter’s day, on a snowy hillside.
A tablet showing a photo of a living room w/ modern couch and a small sketchbook with a rendering of the same scene.
Mountain scenery with some reddish rock on a sunny day. A few high clouds.
Sunny day view of a sandstone wall w/ ghostly Indigenous American pictographs showing humanoid figures.