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📙 #057 - Pastels and Apocalyptic Albums

Mainly pictures, some words a bit of music and other people's knitting machine videos.

Mar 20 •

📙 #056 - How to tell when your art is bad

But also, how to tell when it's good. A quick rule of thumb.

Mar 6 •

📙 #055 - Supergraphics, Stampy Stomper, Philosophy and an abrupt ending.

# SUPERGRAPHICS

Feb 20 •

📙 #054 - What if my hands stop working?

Slightly different one this week, a more personal story.

Feb 6 •

📙 #053 - Ink tests, nearly science, almost a zine, and America WTF?

Skip the first part to jump straight to the art!

Jan 23 •

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📙 #052 - minimum value newsletter, a zine and the least amount of ink information possible.

In which I detail three things I've started. It's a short one this week, and I mean actually short!

Jan 9 •

📙 #051 - PTPX Postcards, imaginary executive pen plotting desk, and Kitty the AI Witch

Pen plotting on the kitchen table, a dangerous desk, and life with a mystical AI witch to guide us through the wheel of the year.

Dec 26, 2024 •

🍿 #051 Mini - 80s Pop Roxy Bonus Pack

A little detour into my upcoming ArtBlocks drop.

Dec 19, 2024 •

📙 #050 - Kaleidoscopic Workflow

At last, I’ve got my act together enough to post the third part of this little pen plotting adventure from newsletters #047 and #048 - with some online…

Dec 12, 2024 •

📙 #049 "Mini" - Lying to Printers, Plotter traitor

p5.plotSvg, a dataviz job, painting with plotters course, ArtFrame plotter, and far too much maths about a printer

Nov 28, 2024 •

📙 #048 - Truncated Optimisation

Learning to let go of control and embrace randomness in pen plotting, then immediately regaining control, because that's how we roll; uptightly.

Nov 14, 2024 •

🎃 #047 - No such thing as too much yellow

Also some stuff about pen plotting

Oct 31, 2024 •

📙 #046 - Unexpected drawing machine in the bagging area

Tough Manly Viking

Oct 17, 2024 •

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