Author Archives: Jay

Creating the Taxi Trailer Painting

By Jay | Published: 05/09/2013

This post documents the creation of a watercolor painting based on a double trailer I saw wheeling naked Ford Escape taxis through Hoboken. This will be the largest painting to date in my Trucks series. Updates are in reverse chronological order. May 9th, 2013 I’m glad to finally get back to working on this picture. [...]

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Mancala Games

By Jay | Published: 03/28/2013

Mancala is an ancient counting game based on the agricultural practice of sowing seeds. It is traditionally played with stones and wooden cups but here are a few digital versions: Awele/Oware- Mancala uses a photo-realistic background of a large wooden Mancala board. This iOS game allows one or two players to compete. Mancala FS5 is [...]

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The Animated Doodles of Dan Berry

By Jay | Published: 03/13/2013

Here’s a cute music video for Jim Guthrie’s “The Rest is Yet to Come”. Artist Dan Berry made a panoramic background with simple animations of watercolor drawings. The result is a slow pan across a landscape of musicians, leaves and fire. He provides a peek at his process by posting pictures of the video in [...]

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Drawing in Hoboken

By Jay | Published: 03/10/2013

I’ve drawn Carlo’s Bakery in Hoboken a couple of times. The “Cake Boss” is right across from City Hall and there are benches facing into the street. Usually my pictures will include the crowd of people waiting to get into the little bake shop, but on this day I found an old Impala much more [...]

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The Labyrinth in the Tube

By Jay | Published: 02/27/2013

In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the London Underground, artist Mark Wallinger was commissioned to create artwork for all 270 stations of the Tube. He developed a series of enamel painted labyrinths, bringing together many classic circular labyrinths into a common visual language of solid black and white, with a red “X” as a [...]

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Solving puzzles in “The Heist”

By Jay | Published: 01/21/2013
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The Heist is a beautifully designed collection of different puzzles for iOS . It contains four puzzle types, most consisting of sliding pieces. The structure of the puzzles will be familiar to many users because they borrow elements from other games, such as ThinkFun’s Rush Hour and square sliding tile toys. But the game is [...]

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