I’ve been painting more of the hard edge watercolor pen plots and finally got around to editing some video. The video below goes through the process and talks about how the paintings are made. Enjoy! DanHi, I’m Dan. existentialfri.wpengine.com
A couple of months ago I accidentally created an effect with some curves and color in p5.js. I really liked the effect so I decided to begin plotting and painting the curves. Note: You can check out this video if you want to see the process in action. The images below show a couple of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I like using Generative art to iterate quickly. I don’t always know how colors and shapes will look together and through the use of randomness with a predefined palette I can quickly see how colors and themes feel. Changing out colors is as simple as refreshing the random number generator and that allows us to […]
Great news, I’ve finally been able to make my Abstract Ocean images available as prints. As a refresher, these images begin with a beach photograph. I take the photograph and sort the colors to create the images you see below. I tested out a few Print on Demand (POD) companies to fulfill prints and have […]
Today wraps up the 13 week generative art series. When we started the series I wasn’t quite sure where it would take us or what would come out of it. I was initially concerned that I might run out of images, but I ended up with many more ideas than I needed. It’s natural to […]
Do you ever think about how the things you saw and experienced growing up shape the way you see the world today? I grew up surrounded by different types of art and one of the significant pieces was a large metal sun. The sun is around 4 feet across and made with some type of […]
I’ve never been particularly interested in drawing pictures of real things. For whatever reason, attempting to mirror reality feels stifling and stressful. I prefer Abstract Art because it evolves organically and provides a way to see things differently. Abstract art frequently develops without a specific destination. You might start of with a direction, idea, or […]