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Mini Project: The “Real Plan” Financial Calculator

Posted on December 5, 2020December 6, 2020
Do I have enough money to quit my job calculator

It’s relatively easy to budget and save when your financial situation is stable. However, life and money have a tendency to change and not all situations are stable. The RealPlanCalc is built to answer questions about what happens when your financial situation changes in the future. Specifically, it illustrates how additional savings and income impact […]

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Generative Art IVF Lucky Transfer T-Shirt

Posted on December 3, 2020December 3, 2020
generative art tshirt p5.js

My wife and I welcomed two delightful girls into the world earlier this year. The process wasn’t easy. We struggled with infertility for years and had an IVF cycle that was a total bust. Fortunately, we tried IVF a second time and, much to our surprise, ended up getting twins! Somewhere along the way, we […]

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Starting Projects From “The Whole Big Thing” Ideas Leads To Two Likely Paths

Posted on November 20, 2020November 20, 2020

Have you noticed that you never get around to doing some of the things you say you want? You might even start, but you never truly commit to what you’re doing. Other times you say you don’t know what you want or can’t decide between a few different things. Maybe you want to write a […]

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Uncertain Creation is More Interesting than Certain Creation

Posted on November 13, 2020November 13, 2020
Generative Art Hard Edge Abstract Geometric Watercolor Painting

Over the years I’ve noticed that I have a tendency to say or think, “we can make that,” when I see something cool. In many cases the thing is a piece of furniture. Even though I know I can make the cool thing, I never make most of them. The main reason, as far as […]

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Hard Edge Watercolor Over Generative Art Pen Plots With p5.js and the Silhouette Cameo – Video Post & Source Code

Posted on October 30, 2020October 30, 2020
Generative Art Hard Edge Watercolor Paint Pen Plots

One of the things I like to do with p5.js is sit down with a loose idea of something to explore. When I do that and add in some randomness and noise the outcome is usually more interesting than something I could have figured out up front. In this video we use Curve Vertex and […]

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The Meaning and Importance of the Scratchpad Approach

Posted on October 21, 2020October 21, 2020
Python Jupyter Notebook Scratchpad

I won’t delve too deep into work here, but there is one thing we need to touch on. A couple years ago I started using Python to automate my work. In case you don’t know, Python is a programming language that’s great for manipulating data and automating daily tasks. I found that I really enjoyed […]

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How to Make Generative Art Bookmarks With p5.js and the Silhouette Cameo as a Pen Plotter Using Multiple Pens (Code & Video Included)

Posted on October 14, 2020October 14, 2020
Generative Art Bookmarks p5.js Silhouette Cameo Pen Plot

Note: You can think about this post as having two parts – the p5.js code part and the pen plotting part. This post covers the code to create the bookmarks and the video (linked at the bottom) shows the physical process for exporting the images and plotting them. Let’s get started . . . I […]

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Abstract Squeegee Painting – Video Post

Posted on September 26, 2020September 26, 2020
Acrylic Abstract Squeegee Painting

Sometime in the past year I started experimenting with Squeegee paintings. Specifically, I started using a window washing squeegee with lots of water to paint. It’s a blast! The video below shows the process for one of the earlier paintings I did. The painting is done on an 18″ back stapled canvas from Blick and […]

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Clarity is What I’ve Been Working on Lately and it’s More Than an Idea

Posted on August 24, 2020August 24, 2020
Daily Journaling Completed Notebooks

Sometime in the past couple of months I took a little diversion from my daily art projects and began working on something new.  Specifically, I started learning Flask for web development. Some portion of the shift is that I got interested in web development with Python and the other is that my wife and I […]

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Moving beyond self-inflicted existential torture with small watercolor paintings

Posted on May 31, 2020May 31, 2020
Abstract Nature Inspired Watercolor Painting

One of the things I know with certainty is that I’m good at habits. Every morning I wake up before 4 and spend 45 minutes to an hour painting. Habit usually makes it easier to move forward because you have momentum in some direction. However, sometimes efforts stall out and you need to find a […]

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