Chaos in the medium | Generative art diary

New article, watercolour plotting, handwriting prints (coming soon)

Jun 14, 2024

I write about generative art, code, creativity and other interconnected topics. You can expect a diary every Friday sharing what I’ve been working on, some things I’ve found interesting, and a link to a new article every other week. Thanks for joining me here. 💖

Hello!

Lots of this week was spent plotting with watercolour and writing about plotting with watercolour. I also had two days at my day job (usually it’s just one) so art days were reduced.

I am really enjoying writing articles and sharing my process on a defined schedule. It feels worthwhile but it’s also definitely cutting down the time I have for other artmaking. I am not sure how to create more balance here. Ideally I will get better at writing articles more quickly but, I mean, last year it would take me weeks to produce one and now it’s about 2-3 days work, so I have already streamlined a lot.

New article: Watercolour plotting

Over the past few weeks, I've been experimenting with painting in watercolours using my AxiDraw plotter. This article is a scrapbook of things I’ve been trying, the results I’ve created and the mistakes I’ve made (and continue to make).

Read the article

Things I worked on this week

I’ve been doing some research into options for producing prints. I’ve always been happy with prints from The Print Space, and they now have a drop shipping service where prints are delivered digitally signed and come with a certificate of authenticity. They also have locations in UK/EU/USA so expensive shipping is avoided. I’m working on creating a series of handwriting prints which will be available soon!