Drum roll please.................................................................... Prepare for the unveiling of Tyler Patty's most stunning work yet!


This small diorama depicts two friends, an elf and a dwarf, fighting at the battle of Helm's Deep. I'm talking of course about Legolas (up on the wall) and Gimli (smoking a pipe on a dead Uruk-Hai).

I hope the ebullient Nathan Pitcher is proud of my second take on Legolas, as he was so fond of the original (which I was not so fond of, hence the new paint job). I'd like to thank the sagacious Becca McMartin for the wonderful Gimli, which I am glad I am done painting (it was quite frustrating actually!).

Even though these two figures were painted only days apart from each other, I am especially proud of Legolas. Both were very time-consuming to paint, because I tried to pay a lot of attention to detail. There are some things I would have done differently now looking back...but we learn from our mistakes so I guess I'll just have to live with it!


Overall though I think I did pretty well. The good part is that I still have lots more places to go, I can still keep on experimenting and learning! You can be expecting more diorama thingamajigs in the future, I already have a couple more ideas.

Oh, and just in case you were wondering how I did the brickwork, while we were in the states I got some brick molds. I then pour plaster in them, let it dry and pop them out! Then I can glue them together and paint over it all. It's awesome, and you'll see some more of them in the future as well!

Gotta go eat dinner! Thanks in advance for all your comments! =)

I was inspired by Nathan's latest post on his blog and decided to acquire a peculiar aristocratic title myself!

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Grand Duke Tyler Joseph the Blue of Fiddlers Green Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

I started painting my Legolas figure yesterday, and it's coming along quite nicely! I should have it done by the end of the week, so I'll post pictures of all that I've painted lately then!

One thing I got for Christmas from Claire was a great movie called Once. It's a movie about how a Dublin busker meets a Czech girl pianist, and the two decide to record an album together. That's the short version, I highly recommend you see it for yourself! It's very different from anything you've ever seen before, I can guarantee that.

The only down-side to it is the R-rating for language but it doesn't bug me too much and I really enjoyed the musical parts of it. I downloaded the soundtrack off of iTunes last night and have been listening to it all day!


Ever since we got back from the States I've been in an artsy mood, so I got some pretty cool stuff done. I'll put up pictures soon, I'm sure you'll all be proud of me!! =)

This past week has been great.

It was spent:

playing guitars for hours at the enormous Guitar Center,



Meeting new friends and spending time with old ones,



And of course celebrating Christmas with our dear grandparents!



One thing that I'm really excited about is a thingamajig called a drawing tablet, which will help me a lot in my further pursuits in web design! It's pretty awesome! (you can't really see it in the picture but I have a cool stylus pen in my hand which I draw on the tablet with)


Be sure to leave me a comment and let me know how YOUR Christmas was! We had an amazing one here. And so...

As promised, I have bought Les Miserables! To start at the beginning...

We flew to the States last Tuesday, and it took us 28 hours to get from doorstep to doorstep!


Right now we are happily staying at my mom's parents' new house in Eugene, Oregon! We're spending Christmas with them for the first time in 13 years, so it's quite the occasion. We've been busy buying Christmas presents as well as stocking up on clothes.


Today we drove about 2 hours up to Portland, and spent the whole day...you guessed it: shopping (and the occasional food).


Powell's bookstore in Portland is a legend (to us at least). So we decided to go check it out, and we were amazed at it's vastness. It's a really cool place. After about half an hour of wandering around I stumbled upon the very thick book by Victor Hugo. At $4 it was a steal.

So far, it's very...different. I really love Hugo's style of writing, but it's unlike anything I've ever read. I'll keep you updated on my thoughts on it once I get the chance.


Dad flies in tomorrow evening, can't wait!

Christmas is coming!

Well, the concert is over! I feel pretty good about it... and I'm totally beat. I'm ready to sleep and sleep and sleep some more... It's been a long day.


But it was really fun. Thanks to everyone who came and watched and listened to us!


While setting up earlier today I had an idea...so I went and asked our drummer, Pavel: "Do you think it's possible for me to stand on your bass drum and jump off?" He said no problem, and we tried it out a couple times...hehe! I did it twice during the concert, and it was awesome. Luckily there were no casualties!



If Hudson or Becca are reading this, i have one thing to say...: "I wore my band shoes!!!"



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And I also learned how to make an omelet this week, but that's another story...

Tensing concert on Friday! Here's the poster I made for it.

The song I'm most looking forward to playing is Pieces by Sum 41 because I can jump around during it!

Last night i watched Les Misérables (the 1998 version with Liam Neeson) and I really enjoyed it. It's for sure one of my favorite movies now. When we go to the States I'll be sure to pick up the book (it's over 1800 pages long)!!!