Rin's home on the web.
Welcome!
Welcome to my website. I use this space as a central hub for all the things I want to share. This includes:
- Resources. Sometimes I am doing something and I put a lot of effort into figuring out how to do it and finding useful resources. I often think “I have gone through all this work, it would be nice if I could save others the effort by sharing what I have found.” So far I have made a resource for learning Welsh, and a guide for coping with executive dysfunction. I hope to make many more in the future.
- My art. I am an artist, I do all kinds of arty things. I want to share what I make. I do that on Mastodon sometimes, but the post format there is so limited, sometimes I want to say more or play with layout in ways that Mastodon doesn’t allow for. So here I share bigger posts about my projects.
- My thoughts. I like thinking. I have many opinions. People tell me they like hearing my thoughts (honestly, the number of times I have been told I should start a podcast…). You can read my thoughts here. Who knows, maybe I’ll even make a podcast sometime and share it here as well.
So have an explore, Enjoy!
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Portal Proofing Your Life
Living with executive dysfunction leads to all kinds of inexplicable occurrences. Sometimes you seem to jump through time, unable to account for the hours that went by after you opened your phone or switched on you computer. Your stuff disappears, even when you swear you were just holding it. And occasionally stuff reappears, but in…
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Sketchbook 2: Plants
For my second sketchbook, I made a cover with a gold/brown and hot pink colour palette. I filled this one with tracing paper and I drew various plant forms in it. I created a sleek look with this one by cutting straight edges and using black as a contrasting colour. I am proud of how…
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Sketchbook 1: Wondrous Skies
For my first sketchbook I made a cover with a sort of sunset inspired colour palette and filled it with black paper, black card, and black watercolour paper. As it is so colourful, I used this multicoloured ribbon to close it. I did night sky inspired art in it.
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Abstract Art: Explorations of Splodge
This is some of the first art I started doing as I recovered from sepsis. It was a good project because I got to play with supplies without having to think very hard. It was a change to experiment with colour palettes and compositions to see what I like, without being distracted by any more…
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Handmade Sketchbooks
My friend taught me some book binding and we each made 4 sketchbooks. The covers are mixed media artworks in themselves, we made them with acrylic paint, paint pens, and stencils. We made them during a heatwave so the paint dried very quickly and it was easy to do lots of layers. Silver linings :).…
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Learning Welsh
I have been learning Welsh since 2026 February. Here is how I have been doing so: Resources Online Welsh Course The main resource I have been using is the online courses provided by dysgucymraeg.cymru / learnwelsh.cymru. They offer courses in North Welsh and South Welsh, at levels: Here is how they describe each of the…
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Homo Deus
I just watched a video from Technology Connections about “algorithmic complacency”, the idea that we are so surrounded by automated, curated feeds, that it seems we are forgetting how to seek out information for ourselves, handing over the reins for our train of thought to The Algorithm. He discusses many of the possible impacts of…