Yeah, there's a pretty cool studio here in town called
1AM aka "First Amendment". My teacher there is more graffiti style than street art (there's a difference), and recently he's started a great series where he defaces really bad 80s pop art, e.g.:
Bob Ross was never so cool.
My can control needs a lot of work... it's all muscle memory you have to develop from scratch. But I'm learning new skillz I guess.
As for a holiday, I'm trying to swing a work-sponsored trip to Florianópolis, Brazil that will allow me to branch out with more personal time to travel South America in the Spring. Details to come.
Horse riding? Awesome. I take it Western and not English and definitely no dressage? Or are you hunting foxes in your spare time now? (Comely Canadian RCMPs aside.)