Braised Short Ribs

I could make this dish twice a week, every week with no complaints – the fellas loved it so. Short ribs slow cooked in a low oven with carrots, celery, onion, mushrooms, chopped garlic, and beef broth served over wide egg noodles. The meat is fork tender and delicious! Continue reading

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Caturday

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Friday Five – Number One Hundred Seventy Three

One hundred seventy third in a continued series creating a collage using five elements.

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Pink Blooms

Spring is on it’s way!

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Available for Birthdays and Bar Mitzvahs

Scary Clown VariationThis is a variation of the frightening clown I produced in Affinity Designer back in 2019. I was on a streak back then making a number of vector Halloween heads in Serif’s superlative software, and my basement dwelling Bozo was one of them. I was poking around one of the many hard drives I have cluttering the place and found this earlier version of the illustration. I’m not sure why I didn’t just stop here, but I pressed on and I was happy with the results I ultimately achieved. On second look, this wasn’t bad, so I blew the virtual dust from it and am putting it up here.

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Tuesday Digital Doodle • Gritty City

Back in the ’80s, there were a number of guys in art school playing with grayscale textures created by flicking a toothbrush loaded with ink onto a piece of bristol or illustration board. They would carefully cut frisket masks like a stencil and painstakingly flick an inky toothbrush at the exposed areas of the paper to build up gray tones with an interesting texture. Sometimes, it was worth it. Other times, it was a dispiriting waste of a few sheets of frisket, a few X-Acto No. 11 blades, some ink, a toothbrush and several hours. I think the type treatment above took me about five minutes to do digitally in Affinity Designer.

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Brownie Muffins

These are the ultimate brownie, moist, dense, and fudgy. And they’re easy to grab and go! These brownies will satisfy the chocoholic in you, and they’re easy to make! Continue reading

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