Monday, March 03, 2025

Tools to Disrupt the Unethical Scraping of Art: My thoughts on Glaze and Nightshade

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 For my anti-scraping tools experiments, I chose a personally meaningful AI-generated image from 2018. Created using an early version of Go...
Saturday, March 01, 2025

Tools to Disrupt Unethical Scraping of Art: My Experience with Pixsy

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Several years ago, I beta-tested through flickr an application now known as Pixsy.com that scans the internet for unauthorized uses of prot...
Saturday, February 15, 2025

A little bit about "Littles"

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 I watched an interesting YouTube demonstration by Al Klein on the American Art School Live Channel about a little tool/technique he uses f...
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Why I've been missing.

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 I'm not one for excuses but I don't mind sharing what has been slowing me down on the computer/internet/socials front. 1. My recent...
Friday, December 06, 2024

Sending Watercolour Postcards : Does Size Matter?

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The general answer is yes but the specific answer is not really! Postcards and Christmas cards have fairly well established dimensions. Fo...
Thursday, December 05, 2024

What Brands of Watercolour Postcard are Available and Where?

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There are several brands of premade blank watercolour postcards. Here are a few I’ve used.  My favourite is Hahnemuhle which comes in a very...
Wednesday, December 04, 2024

Can you Send Watercolour Paper Safely in the Post?

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I have actually sent a lot of postcards unprotected through the post. From such diverse locations as Canada the UK, Northern Europe, Africa,...