Grabbing creative momentum where I can

Glitchy art and lots of plotting!

I’m an artist and creative technologist. I write about generative art, code, creativity and other interconnected topics. You can expect a diary on Fridays sharing the things I’ve been working on. Thanks for joining me here. 💖

Hello!

This week’s been a little frantic as I’ve had a few appointments out of the house and I’m off to a festival next week, so there is a lot I’m trying to get done before I go! There will be no newsletter from me next week as I’ll be in a field!

I’ve been tying up the commission I’ve been working on, experimenting with a few things (some more successfully than others) and making some new handwriting plots. I also had a meeting about another commission that will be very exciting for me if it comes together!

Things I’ve done this week

Glitch commission

This is almost finished and this week I spent time tidying up the code.

I keep things as tidy as possible as I work, but I do enjoy changing variables directly where they’re being used, so that I can quickly explore the effects of different settings. Then later I go back and build out the system to manage the options to produce varied outputs. I completed that this week.

I’ve also been adding more features, like these jittery paths.

I’ve still got a couple more ideas to built out before shipping this, but I love where this has ended up! NFT’s of the piece are going to be given as a gift to purchasers of the dGen1 phone, and I hope they like it!

Watercolour Plotting

As I mentioned last week, I tried out the wet brush method with my “existence” watercolour painting. Honestly, I don’t love the way this one turned out, but if nothing ever turned out less than ideal then I think that would be a sign that not enough experimenting is happening.

Here it is with just the painting (left), and then with a wet brush pulled through (right)

Then I also added some very diluted pink and yellow

You can watch a timelapse of the process on:
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Handwritten Plotting

I’m working on producing some pen plotted handwriting works. When I have around 10 of these, I will release them on my shop.

These always sold out quickly in the past so my plan is to create a link that I share with you via this newsletter and they’ll be available there exclusively for a week. Then any that haven’t sold out at the end of the week will be moved to my regular shop page!

There are also timelapses for these on the way, but I haven’t edited them yet!

One last thing!

It may or may not materialise so no details yet but here’s something I've been testing for the thing I had a meeting about!

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Things I’ve enjoyed this week

• I went to see the opening of Forms in Flux, with work by Anthony Hiley-Mann and Florian Zumbrunn, which was incredible to see and also super nice to hang out with the generative art crowd again.

• Erik Swahn’s ‘dusty’ studies.

• This animated series that reminds me of ascii art, graphic design and the game of life, by Andrew Strauss.

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That’s all, thanks again for joining me!

I’ll leave you with this shot of Anthony Hiley-Mann’s Materialistic on display, and I’ll see you here next week.

Amy ⭐

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