Other hobbies

[MartianDestiny]

Just finished up a painting and started wondering what everyone else here did for fun outside of bikes?

My recently re-acquired hobby is illustration. Here are my two recent works:

First my puppy Luna in pen and ink (with inkwash for the eyes). I'd still like to do some touchup work on the stippling (needs some darkening)


And my just finished Horsehead Nebula in acrylic on canvas. This is my first attempt at painting, ever. Surprisingly happy with it (which is a good thing because it gets critiqued and graded on Thursday!)

[Ana]

Hobbies

1. Sewing
2. Cooking and Baking
3. Aikido
4. Gardening
5. Reading
6. Knitting
7. Weight lifting

I would also eventually like to start either yoga or pilates

[azfiddle]

I play fiddle- Irish and contra dance music.

[MartianDestiny]

I've always wanted to learn violin. I played the Clarinet in high school instead.

[malkin]

(beginning) piano
Several years ago I won a piano in a raffle; last year I decided to learn to play it to accompany the kids at school. It's incredible fun and maybe it will postpone senility!

(amateur) photography

knitting

trying to get plants to survive in containers on the balcony

drinking beer

[Tri Girl]

amazing art, MD!
I am an artist, too. I paint landscapes.

Hiking (the higher the mountain, the better)

Reading about people's bike tours

[Ana]

I've always wanted to learn violin.

Me too! It's on my list of things I would like to accomplish in my life

I also want to get a dog someday and then my hobby will be dog training

[MartianDestiny]

I also want to get a dog someday and then my hobby will be dog training

O how well I understand that "hobby" right now. With a "new" 2yr old BC mix in the house it feels more like a full time job sometimes. Quit cycling for about 5months. Now I'm at the point where I can work with her and cycle, and we just started agility, which should be fun when she gets over the other dogs in the class with her!

[Jolt]

I play fiddle- Irish and contra dance music.

Cool...Irish music is fun. I have just started playing around on the tin whistle...it's fairly simple but not really that easy to sound good! So far just playing the simple tunes in the little booklet that came with the whistle--things like "Molly Malone", "The Drunken Sailor", "Danny Boy" (which I just tried today and sounded horrendous!!!) etc.

[azfiddle]

Jolt, is there a regular Irish session near you? Anyone to give you pointers?
I agree, whistle is simple in principle and hard to do well. There are a lot of little techniques for getting the right sound. I can figure out a few tunes, but can't get much beyond jigs....

[Jolt]

Jolt, is there a regular Irish session near you? Anyone to give you pointers?
I agree, whistle is simple in principle and hard to do well. There are a lot of little techniques for getting the right sound. I can figure out a few tunes, but can't get much beyond jigs....

I don't know if there's a regular session around here--that's a good question. Might be fun to check out (if I can get past the fear of embarrassing myself). Mostly the tricky thing is fine-tuning how hard to blow for certain notes--there are a couple that I always seem to have problems with and it's also just generally easy to overblow on the low notes and have them sound sharp.