Category Archives: Technique

Ma Grand-Mère

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Tina Garceau

Among the family photos I’ve been sorting through is this beautiful portrait of my grandmother, Rhea Lajeunesse Garceau. From the clothing she’s wearing – it looks to have been taken in the early teens. For a one hundred year old … Continue reading →

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Bring Out The GIMP

Posted on June 25, 2014 by Joe_Williams

N O T E I posted this back in June of 2014 when I was giving one of my Hackintoshes a test drive. I was sick of Apple’s pivot to non-repairability and distressed by Adobe’s equally sinister pivot to software … Continue reading →

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Surgery and Leaps of Faith – Visual Metaphors

Posted on August 5, 2013 by Joe_Williams

Here’s another Visual Metaphor that I created for a client that deals with executives and trains them in leadership and people skills. The client asks her client to come up with a 3-part list consisting of 1. Where they were, … Continue reading →

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The Broad Street Blues

Posted on August 4, 2013 by Joe_Williams

Playing around with Photoshop alternative Acorn on my Hackintosh.

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Back In Class

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Tina Garceau

Last week, I was summoned back into the classroom by my son’s teacher for help with a project for Mother’s Day. I thought it would be fun to faux finish jewelry boxes with the kids, and the results were spectacular!

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Printing on Canvas

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Tina Garceau

After a bit of a break, I’m back to printing on fabric with digital grounds. I had an old, high contrast photostat negative of the interior of a diner. I wanted a print on canvas to be dark and graphic … Continue reading →

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Miss Blanchette’s Painting

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Tina Garceau

I found this painting while searching through my flat files the other day. It was given to me on my birthday by an elderly women when I worked in a convalescent home in high school.

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The Return of Cosmic, Maaaannnnnn!!!

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Joe_Williams

Tina’s birthday was fast approaching, and I didn’t have a rock solid, hysterically funny idea for a card so I decided to revisit a friend from last year’s anniversary card, Cosmic, Maaaannnnnn!

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Killing the Sketchbook from Hell

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Joe_Williams

A sketch I did with my favorite indigo blue pencil while sitting at the Ridgeway pool in South Philadelphia this summer. This was the first satisfying sketch I did in the dreaded Sketchbook from Hell!

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