Rivikah

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An airplane tray table with a small watercolour painting of waterlilies
A hood with liripipe and shoulder cape edged with oak leaves knit in shades of green. Laid flat on a table.
A watercolor painting of a blue sky and a blue lake with distant trees
A watercolor painting of a bright blue eye surrounded by part of a stylized face in shades of red and orange
The same painting subtly tweaked around the hair and mouth.
Watercolour painting of a woman's face
A watercolor painting of a small tree against a brightly coloured sky.
A small lake mostly hidden behind sheeting rain viewed from a sheltered porch.
An eye and part of a face painted in blue and brown with watercolour in a hard-edged contour style
A classic cottage view: Muskoka chairs on a dock in a small lake at dusk
A screenshot of an Alf gif with square corners
A knitted leaf edging. It's all wobbly.
Painting of a airport departure gate
A child in an orange raincoat with backhoe tracks and a backhoe shovel shaped Halloween bucket
A beach with a huge expanse of sand. The water is very distant and beyond it are tree covered islands
A hand holding an oval rock. It's brown with grey flecks and small dark pits. It has a slightly bumpy surface but it's surprisingly smooth and regular. It's slightly wider and a little shorter than the thumb of the hand holding it.
A leaf shaped piece of the edging has been isolated on a piece of string
The hood doesn't look like much, just knitting bunched up on needles. It's various shades of green. There are at least two circular needles visible
A beach with trees silhouetted against the last bit of sunset through the clouds
Eight painted test strips of various fabrics all with the same six paints
Nesting black oystercatcher on a rocky shoreline in the sunset. Painted in a soft hazy style in watercolor on cotton canvas
Yet another piece of wall that has been made thicker. This one has a window relatively high in the wall and a clothes washing machine is visible in the foreground
A stack of what used to be 10 2x4s that have all been cut in half lengthwise.
A tall cake with chocolate icing with chocolate chips and raspberries on the top.
A painting of a mother breast with two cubs walking in a sunset landscape. The style is kind of soft and blurry
This wall features a window and a sloping ceiling over the stairs that had to be worked around.
A watercolour painting still attached to a board with blue tape. It depicts a mother and baby orca. The mother looks like 😠 and the baby looks like 😁 The painting style is a little blurry because it's in fabric rather than paper.
An orderly row of 10 studs with a piece of foam insulation sandwiched to them with some extra wood. The new pine is a lighter colour than the old fir used for 4 studs on the far wall.
A painting of a pair of salmon.
A freshly cut 2x4 showing a beautiful grain in the cut end.
Wooden 2x4 studs with a 2x2 and a half inch of foam screwed on top making them thicker.
Eight small fabric swatches painted with test blobs in red brown orange and gold
A watercolour painting of a seal
A perfectly ordinary pigeon with a green and purple iridescent head, grey body with dark stripes and orange feet. It's looking at the camera warily.
A stack of books: Emily Tesh: the Incandescent, T Kingfisher: What Stalks the Deep, Olivia Waite: Murder by Memory, Molly O'Neill: Greenteeth, Sophie Burnham: Sargassa
A wrap with meat and vegetables wrapped in foil
A painting of a sea star in reds and browns
48 small paintings of various subjects and colours laid out in a rough grid on a wooden floor.
The same space, now with a piece of foam insulation
An image of an awkwardly shaped space between a ceiling joist and a wall blocked by electrical wires and a water line.
The swatches have been painted with blobs of red, orange, and brown. The paint behaves differently in each swatch with some running dramatically.
A stack of rectangular pieces of 5 different fabrics. Some are cut in a smallish painting size. Since are cut into teeny tiny sample pieces. Many are slightly wrinkled
A row of five small strips of white and cream fabric taped to a board with blue painters tape
The same house with a Regal Blue (a dark grey/blue) roof
Same house with a more muted green/blue roof
The same house with a vibrant navy roof
Before! A patch of long grass bordered by large trees on one side and a low stone wall with patches of English ivy on the other
Labrador Blue is a slightly less saturated navy blue colour
A watercolour painting taped to a void balanced on a person's knee. A small paint pallette and a brush are laying on either side of it. The painting is a signpost framed with abstract patterns all in blue and yellows
A bowl of dumplings in a soupy broth with peas, corn, and onions
A vase full of invasive Spanish bluebells
A bowl of soup with potatoes carrots corn and cauliflower
A 6 month gas price chart showing prices for British Columbia, California, and the USA average in Canadian cents per litre. The BC price is nearly double the USA average which is the goofy 2006 style price of around a dollar.
A painting of a mug of a hot beverage in progress.
A floor plan marked up with symbols representing electrical fixtures in various colours. Four colored pencils are sitting on top.
A woman wearing a large shawl in stripes of natural wool colors viewed from behind her left shoulder.
A bowl of bacon corn chowder served at a restaurant
A piece of pink foam insulation is shaped to fit around a plumbing shut off
A piece of stud wall with pink foam insulation placed around the foundation