wave riders Drifter

 

rIppler

 

Practice makes Perfect

 

Temporal WaterColor

 

The Bubble Factory

A virus is “simply a piece of bad news wrapped up in protein,” the biologists Jean and Peter Medawar wrote in 1977.

Great article by Carl Zimmerman in the New York Times. The complete kitchen recipe instruction manual on how to assemble SARS-CoV-2. Or rather, a guide to how it dis-assembles you and your kind. The Bubble Factory refers to the NSP6 protein, which works with NSP3 and NSP4 to make virus factory bubbles.

Generation C

Ed Yong always writes great science columns for the Atlantic. I quote from a recent one below.

Rich, strong, developed, America is supposed to be the readiest of nations. That illusion has been shattered. Despite months of advance warning as the virus spread in other countries, when America was finally tested by COVID-19, it failed.

A new Generation C will be born into a society profoundly altered by COVID-19.  Gen C’s lives will be shaped by the choices made in the coming weeks, and by the losses we suffer as a result.

We are all Edward Hopper paintings now

The Guardian says, "With his deserted cityscapes and isolated figures, the US painter captured the loneliness and alienation of modern life. But the pandemic has given his work a terrifying new significance." Interesting read as we all sit and social distance.

Waiting for the New Year

Mixed media piece. Experimenting with some new approaches for generating watercolor effects. Path start regionization in the paint synthesizer along with a little bit of vector sketch.

Beach Run

Mixed media watercolor paint experiment.

Oakland

Knocked this off while working on some new watercolor paint presets.

Wet Paint Test

Working on some new watercolor spreading wet paint presets.

Touch of Blue 2

More experiments with new watercolor paint presets and auto-tightening.

Sideways

Another watercolor experiment using some of the new tightening controls in the paint synthesizer.

Touch of Blue

Another paint synthesizer watercolor experiment.

Hollow Man

Another automatic watercolor painting experiment.

Watercolor Experiment

Paint synthesizer experiment while working on a watercolor paint preset.

Watercolor Experiment 3

Another auto-paint watercolor experiment.

Watercolor Experiment 2

Another watercolor experiment. These are all auto-painted using a single paint preset.

Beach Dream

More watercolor paint preset experiments.

Watercolor Experiments

playing around with some new options for building watercolor paint presets.