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Monthly Archives: January 2024
Italian Penicillin
Lately, I’ve been all about cold weather comfort food. It snowed on Friday from the time I got up, to when it got dark – it was a good day to make this soup. It’s a chicken broth with pureed … Continue reading
School Days – The Cool Substitute Teacher
The Cool Substitute Teacher circa 1974 is an illustration that fell together as I was playing with shapes in the superlative vector art program Affinity Designer. I was hoping to come up with another monster for my collection of Halloween … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, News, Vector Illustration
Tagged 1970s, 1974, Affinity Designer, Cartoon, digital illustration, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, school, school days, substitute, USA, vector
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Building a Robot
…with Affinity Designer. I started to work on this mechanical man to shake the rust from my vector graphic cartooning skills. Of late, I have been spending more time with pencils and paper than I have been with the Affinity … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged Affinity, Affinity Designer, desktop, desktop publishing, graphics, Illustration, Joe Williams, robot, vector
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Snow Picnic
Yesterday was a snow day, and I had a great time watching the birds feasting on a suet cake in my neighbor’s yard. I baked another lemon loaf, made soup, and when I went out to shovel – a new … Continue reading
Posted in News, Philadelphia, Photography
Tagged birds, snow day, South Philly, suet cake
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Wawa Sewing Needles For People on the Go!
This is back in the days when you tried to stretch a dollar by making your belongings last. Before people started used buzzwords like renewable, recyclable, and sustainable – they would repair what they owned to save a buck. Or … Continue reading
Lemon Loaf
There’s nothing like a citrusy lemon loaf on a cold Sunday afternoon, perfect with a cup of tea. It gets it’s flavor from lemon juice, lemon zest, and sour cream – it’s soft, moist, and scrumptious!