When I decided to start writing this blog regularly I was told I should demonstrate expertise in a subject area. Even if I don’t have one? I asked my friend who seemed to have a lot of answers.
Especially if you don’t have one, they answered.
Recently someone emailed me pointing out that this blog is called Illustration. But that I don’t talk about illustration that much and that I almost never do How To posts.
True enough. I think I may have misnamed this blog. (see #2 below)
Things I am expert in:
1- Hearing our cat vomit. That sound can wake me from the deepest slumber
2- Questioning if I made the right decision about whatever I am making a decision about
3- Nervous stomach issues
4- Selecting good black teas
5- Drawing as I draw, writing as I write
6- Wasting time on the internet
7- Taking the dogs for walks
#4) talk more about the black tea thing, I’ve yet to find a blend/brand I like much (except gunpowder tea, really like that!).
#1) for me it’s the cat scratching after it has peed/pooped somewhere other than the litterbox, no matter how deep in REM I am at the moment.
Gunpowder is actually a green tea. If you like gunpowder you might also like a fine quality traditional ‘chinese restaurant tea’ – Oolong tea. I believe that Oolong is made from only special varieties of tea plant. I think it’s technically neither green or black. But a good oolong is the best tea in my opinion. Good black teas…well, if you want to go with a bagged tea, Numi makes some great blends http://www.numitea.com/
There’s a new tea blend made here in Portland from Steven Smith – http://www.smithtea.com/
The blend no 47 Bungalow is exceptional. Not cheap. But really good. Probably my favorite tea I have had the past year or two.
No. 64, the Ceylon Dimbulla is also excellent.
I was given an Oolong from China by an artist I worked with in LA and my wife tracked it down and found it at an importer in San Francisco. I’d have to dig out the package to get the name…that was an excellent Oolong too.
Yeah I waste too much time with tea.