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Category Archives: Pixels Versus Pigment
Reclaiming My Creative Life With Vintage Macs: The Home Stretch
Over Memorial Day weekend I tried installing Linux Mint XFCE on the 2012 Mac Mini, paired with a new OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual — a dual-bay external enclosure that holds two 3.5″ drives.
Posted in Computers, News, Pixels Versus Pigment
Tagged art repository, cigar box projects, digital archive, diy server, dual drive enclosure, dummy plug, family server, headless mac, mac catalina, mac mini 2012, owc mercury elite, Reclaiming Creative Life, retro computing, screen sharing, smb share, vintage Mac
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Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome!
I’ve been playing around with this scanned negative in the free, cross platform, Photoshop alternative GIMP!
Posted in Computers, photo manipulation, Photography, Pixels Versus Pigment, Sketch
Tagged analog, bienvenue, digital, GIMP, photography, Photoshop, Tina Garceau, USA, welcome!, Willkommen
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Digital Doodles
I’ve mostly set aside my real world drawing tools as an obsession with old computers has been burning through me since around Halloween. I’m trying to frugally future-proof my family’s digital life by gutting and re-configuring computers that have long … Continue reading
Both Sides Now
Sometimes if you’re not crazy about a drawing, the best thing you can do is start all over again. Continue reading
Posted in Doodle Tuesday, Illustration, It Came From the Sketchbook, Pixels Versus Pigment
Tagged analog, analog tools, art iteration, beast of times, boldness, comic, contrast, drawing process, horror, Illustration, imperfection, inking, Joe Williams, learning curve, revision, Sketch, sketchbook, tracing paper, transfer paper, USA, Willceau
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The Frugal Review • The Pen+Gear Sketch Diary
When my wife and co-host of this fabulous site, Tina, calls about a cheap sketchbook she’s found at a big box store, I’ve learned not to question her. I just say, “Buy it!” She’s got a knack for spotting art … Continue reading
Posted in Doodle Tuesday, Illustration, It Came From the Sketchbook, News, Pixels Versus Pigment, Sketch, Stuff Joe Likes, Technique
Tagged Affordable art, Art on a budget, art supplies, Artist tools, Budget sketchbook, cheap art supplies, Creative supplies, doodle, drawing, Drawing paper, Frugal art, illustrated story, Joe Williams, mechanical pencil, monster, Non-Repro Blue, Paper quality, pen and ink, Pen+Gear Sketch Diary, Pencil sketching, Sailor Fude de Mannen, Sketch, sketchbook, Sketchbook review, Sketching, Teenage Beast, Walmart art supplies
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The Diplomat from Grorfleplotz
Once again I am ricocheting back and forth between analog and digital illustration. Today I am back in the digital domain with my latest Halloween Head which I call The Diplomat from Grorfleplotz. I’m not sure what the specific honorific … Continue reading
Phantom of the Opera
Although Halloween is 204 days away, I have been working on a new Halloween Head in the superlative vector art program Affinity Designer!
Friday Five – Number One Hundred Ninety One
One hundred ninety first in a continued series creating a collage using five elements.
Mr Mambo Week
It’s always when you’re looking for something else when you unearth a treasure you forgot you had. Truth be told, with The University of the Arts (formerly Philadelphia College of Art) closing it’s doors, I’ve been feeling a little sentimental … Continue reading
