Art – Psyberspace

October 18, 2026October 20, 2026

Five from Phone

Gathered these at last.

Joined by an app ChatGPT made in 30sec.

October 11, 2026

Let me tell you

My phone shows a photo at random every day. This one came up, and I remember discarding it. Suddenly I like it. I imagine it printed on A1 paper, big, bold.

The date on the picture was 29 March 2017. I made quite a few more on that date, this is the only one that grabs me… it wants to tell me something.

September 30, 2026September 30, 2026

Image-9, now called Softly

2150 Softly. Walter Logeman Prints

I’ve been scouring my discs for artwork, my obsessive curating. It’s got a soft quality, even though it’s a bold image. The brushes are soft,

Whats been hard is upscaling.

This image is not bad. I’ve been upscaling images and what a frustrating process that has been in the last few days. I got scammed by one online site.

Then I found a delightful program called Upscayl, which is open source. I’ve got it on GitHub. It works exactly what I wanted us to do, except that it smooths out the rough textures that I want sometimes.

So, back to Open Art, it does a beautiful job. Textures and the pixels all work, but it costs money. I’ve checked them, they come down with a watermark on them. That’s okay.

But then I go to put this image, Sofly up to see if it works with this image and it won’t load it up. So that’s frustrating.

But the image is pretty good quality and I have upgraded it using Upscayl and that good on this occasion. So, learning.

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And I’m subbed to Open Art, and the upload worked. This print will look superb on A1!

September 29, 2026September 29, 2026

Circles

2558. Walter Logeman Prints

I’m making a feature page on the Prints website, with a few reflections at the top.

I wanted to include this image, so I’m posting that here as well as on the Prints site.

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Here’s the discussion at the top.

This is a Feature for October 2026.

Back when I was I was doing the Thousand Sketches I met with George Sweet, who’s since passed away. We had a delightful talk about simplicity. I just read the blog post I made after our meeting. Its called Isnt it fun being alive! It has a great picture of George and a link to a related podcast!

He said “Simplicity is an advanced course.”

I’ve found a few circles which I think are pretty straightforward and simple so they’re featured here.

How simple can I go? How simple is too simple? And is this simple enough?

So simple circles, please enjoy. I’ll pop up other features from time to time.

September 27, 2026September 30, 2026

Not Rothko

A new sketch today. Called it Not Rothko because it’s inspired by Rothko. I love Mark Rothko. I’ve experienced some of his work live.

It seems like something you can do on the garage door with a roller.

But its not that easy. Even this one, I must have had 2 or 3 goes at it in different versions. Then this particular one has about 25 layers of rubbed out and reinserted versions. I play until I get something and then I stop. I like it. So I’ve put it in the blog post because I want to write about my dilemma.

Is this the sort of sketch I could add to Walter Logeman Prints, Not Rothko?

I think people all over the world do imitations of Rothko’s, don’t they?

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Wednesday, 30 September, 2026

And there are more: Golden Fields