Reddit mentions of Liquitex Professional Heavy Body The Mixing Paint Set, Set of 6

>Therapists/therapy are like tools that can be used if one chooses to use them.

This is incredibly true. What works for one person won't work for everyone, and the results are more important than the method.

>What kind of gaming you into?

Lately, anything I can play in bite-sized chunks. I play tons of PC games since I can justify having a machine that I play games on and also use for work, but can't really justify dropping ~$500 on a console anymore since my PS3 barely got used after the first year or two I had it. I play plenty of tabletop games too, and recently started playing D&D for the first time, which seems more like collaborative randomized story-telling than a game, but it's enjoyable enough (multi-player choose-your-own-adventure might be appropriate).

Painting supplies CAN be very expensive, and some of the biggest trouble with it is in knowing exactly what you need for the stuff you want to do. I'd be happy to make some recommendations on a beginner's set, if you like, or if you can show me some art you'd like to see if you could make I could suggest some supplies to help you work toward it.

You can buy just about any kind of brushes, don't even bother buying expensive brushes because until you get to be pretty experienced, the expensive and the cheap perform virtually identically, with some few exceptions. Something like this would be fine, with a Filbert that you can find for less than $5 dollars (Filberts are very versatile, and typically rather durable), and you'll have everything you need to keep you busy well into needing new supplies.

For the paint, I'd start with something like this, as well as something like this. Why both? Because while Liquitex's Basics lineup can be a very forgiving paint to work with, it blends really poorly- it has a very low pigment to body ratio, which basically means they used one scoop of kool-aid to the pitcher of water, instead of two, or three or whatever. Their Professional series can be mixed and blended much more easily, but the Basics stuff is great for practicing with, and it's great at accommodating layering.

With that stuff, and something like this, you'd have more than enough to get started for around $50. You can find canvases in bulk for pretty cheap at places like Michael's when they have sales, but they can be bought just about anywhere, or you can paint on other cheap surfaces. I've seen some pretty badass paintings on particle-board and ripped cardboard.

Further considerations for paint will be that you might want liquid-medium paints to more easily spread the paint over a surface, or you might want professional paints in specific colors (aim for stuff that's difficult to mix- weird shades like neon pink, or metallic colors; whenever you can mix a shade yourself that's usually preferable), and paper plates are basically the best palettes you can buy, since you get 300 for around 3 dollars, and one plate can be used for weeks, but don't worry about buying obscure colors of paint until you are working on a project in which you need them.

In terms of building/fixing/fabricating...

Here is a bunch of stuff I've worked on. The first and eighth image are the dining room set I re-finished and in the process wrecked my thumb. The second, fifth, seventh, and tenth images are projects I've worked on with my wife for an Etsy shop she opened. I typically design the layouts (since I do graphic design for work anyway), and she does anything not related to designing the layouts, though she's gotten much better. The third, fourth, and sixth images are examples of calligraphy I've done, though regrettably I've just discovered I have basically no record of any that I've done. The Robocop thing is because I decided to "enhance" the Christmas decorations that had been put up by making our ID card scanner more "festive." Lastly, the weird glass thing with a black frame is a project I'm working on where I intend to make a sort of synthetic stained glass window, once I have the lighting elements for it. Ideally, it'll look kinda like a busted-up stained glass window with light shining through it, but I'm having trouble finding directional lighting that is strong enough to light up the glass well without being terribly expensive.

None of this stuff is really a great example of anything, but it's the best I could come up with on my lunchbreak, haha.

I'm happy to talk about politics or just about anything, though I'm not really interested in debating unless it's for fun. Seems as if there are flaws or complicating factors to both sides of just about any divisive issue, so I'm not really interested in trying to changes anyone's mind. I try to stay current with the news and everything, but it's largely just become a part of my routine; news radio until I'm awake and alert in the morning, and then I switch over to music.