Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard@mastodon.social

Bunch of new plotter drawings today, running with a geometric "encoding" object in a variety of ways. All ten of 'em up on my art site: http://art.joshmillard.com/2021/05/08/encodings-x10/

Some process reasoning on my Patreon blog: https://www.patreon.com/posts/51031872

And the drawings themselves are available for purchase on my store: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1015893581/encodings

Celebratory "I spent two hours refactoring my code so it works better in a way that's utterly unreflected in its visual output" plot.

Hey, I got my art website back up to date finally! Check out http://art.joshmillard.com/ where can browse through my work from the last few years in oil and watercolor painting, stained glass, linocut prints, and my recent dive into plotter drawings.

hello from shitposts i made in 2018 and haven't thought about since

Currently going through linocut work from early last year and really enjoying seeing some of this stuff again after mostly having carved, printed, and moved on pretty rapidly at the time.

This is a gloomier likeness than I'd intended at the time but it's maybe my favorite self-portrait to date as far as how much I like the look of the work itself.

Wrote up a blog post about some recent plotter drawings and the happy accident of the process behind creating them:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/50852871

Hello, art friends and art-likers!

Would you like to get art, from me, in the mail, every month? How convenient for us both: I've just added some art-by-mail tiers to my Patreon page. Get a postcard from me monthly, or a larger piece of work! Some details on the what and why here:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/ive-added-art-by-50785173

The other four.

More plotter work up on my store:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/998234294/polygonal-triple-spirals

I finished up this series of eight polygonal spiral plotter drawings yesterday. Each was drawn in three separate passes, with red, yellow, and blue Micron 05 pigment markers; each spiral is slightly randomly perturbed, leading to chance variation in the pattern of colors as the three ink passes cluster and cross and collide.

Plotter hijinks continue apace. Just put some new favorites up on my store:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/CortexCraftworks

Yesterday was all about experimenting with and expanding my retinue of my home-rolled hatching routines. Got some stuff I'm really happy with out of it along the way.

Anyway here's a couple of circle/arc plotter things from today

Putting up some of these one-off plotter drawings I've been creating on my store; these will be cases where I'm especially happy with the output of an experimental process, and in most cases will probably represent a snapshot in time where the code that produced it will get rewritten/mangled/etc afterward as my experimentation proceeds.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1006261047/random-walk-variations

Output from yesterday's plotter experiment: variations on accumulations of self-avoiding random walks.

plotter experiments continue

Bart Samson

Goofy non-horrid-prank April 1 thing we did for MetaFilter: a 12-page activity book called Uncle Mefi's Big Book of Beans.

Available as PDF, individual page images, and text descriptions/transcriptions where doable.

https://metatalk.metafilter.com/25808/Uncle-Mefis-Big-Book-of-Beans

Zeus, a plan, a canal: Pa Suez

New linocut print, "Recamán Sequence", available for sale, and also a blog post about the print and the neat math behind it:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-print-49071226

https://www.etsy.com/listing/972076278/recaman-sequence-blockprint