[Happy Valentine's Day!]

That is amazing.

[Faux cyanotype art]

2 hours ago, Alfred said:

I allowed the brush stroke to overlap the edges of the canvas

Very clever.

[Some marble texture styles and a macro]

Marbelous!

[Artwork for greetings cards]

6 hours ago, William Overington said:

Limmer followed by 'song' without the letter g.

Sort of. According to wikipedia the pronunciation is ˈlɪməsɒn. That is the common English pronunciation. The French pronounce im as a nasal sound, which I know how to pronounce, but do not know how to transcribe phonetically. They also tend to stress the last syllable of every word (which is the exact opposite of what we do in Slovak, where we stress the first syllable, except when the word is immediately preceded by a preposition, in which case we pronounce both as if they were one word, so we stress the first syllable of the preposition).

[Washington 2022]

This is what, in my humble view, the US Congress (and the rest of Washigton) has devolved to by now (January 2022). Reminds me of the ancient Chinese curse, May you live in interesting times!

Anyway, created in Affinity Designer.

[Artwork for greetings cards]

17 minutes ago, AdamStanislav said:

Perhaps this video can get you started

And this one makes it look like a piece of cake, as long as you can forgive him for the way he pronounces limaçon.

 

[Artwork for greetings cards]

58 minutes ago, William Overington said:

find out if I could produce a limaçon straighforwardly.

If you’re willing to do some math to find a number of points on your limaçon, then you could just draw a series of smoothly connected curve segments that would look like a limaçon to us. Perhaps this video can get you started:

 

[Art inspired by the art of Sophie Taeuber-Arp]

5 hours ago, William Overington said:

I wonder if one could estimate a value for pi from it.

If you could, you would win the Nobel prize.

[Art inspired by the art of Sophie Taeuber-Arp]

24 minutes ago, William Overington said:

Could you say something about how you produced the design please?

I just drew a rectangle, then a smaller rectangle in the top left corner. Then I duplicated the smaller one and shift-dragged it down, changed its color and repeated until I had a column of six rectangles. Then I selected them, grouped them, duplicated the group, shift-dragged it to the right, flipped it vertically, grouped the two groups into one, duplicated, shift-dragged to the right, duplicated the same group again, shift-dragged to the right, then one more time.

Then I drew a circle, centered it, filled with white and made it transparent. That’s all I did. I guess I lucked out that the smaller rectangle width and height just happened to be one sixth of the width and height of the big rectangle.

Sorry, nothing more than that. I have enclosed the abstract.afdesign file if you want play with it.

[Art inspired by the art of Sophie Taeuber-Arp]

Well, since you insist, here is something totally pointless I have just made in AD:

[Art inspired by the art of Sophie Taeuber-Arp]

49 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Daylight Saving Time,
And the livin’ is easy…

Doesn’t scan very well, does it!

I prefer my own version from almost two years ago:

 

[Art inspired by the art of Sophie Taeuber-Arp]

1 hour ago, William Overington said:

summer time, the period of around seven months

Just FYI, that is what various European languages call it (in their own language, of course). In the US the same concept is called Daylight-Saving Time. So, when the average American sees you talking about summer time, he/she will think you are talking about the Summer (the season), just as in the song.

[Art inspired by the art of Sophie Taeuber-Arp]

12 minutes ago, AdamStanislav said:

If you add, and the livin’ is easy...

And just in case someone does not get this,

 

[Art inspired by the art of Sophie Taeuber-Arp]

10 minutes ago, William Overington said:

If I say it has the title

Summer time

does that make a difference?

If you add, and the livin’ is easy...

[A hypothethical discussion about the possibility of your artwork being marketed]

1 hour ago, William Overington said:

So if a supermarket were to do this, and needed art, how would you feel about some of your artwork, maybe something you design specially so that it would fill the frame, being mass produced and included in such a mass marketed product?

I’d say be my guest. That said, I upload most of my stuff to Open Clipart which effectively releases it to Public Domain, chances are that if any of my work were mass produced I would not even know about it.

[The Colour Check graphic used as an illustration in a document]

1 hour ago, William Overington said:

Solidus is the formal name of the / character.

I dd not know that it is also the name of a Roman coin until I read your post.

William

I only know / as a slash.

Anyway, yes, solidus was a Roman coin. The Italian word for money is soldi. Even the word soldier comes from it.

[The Colour Check graphic used as an illustration in a document]

39 minutes ago, William Overington said:

solidus

You sent them a Roman coin???

[A discussion of Edition in the context of hardcopy prints of digital art]

2 hours ago, William Overington said:

Do people who produce artwork using one or more Affinity products produce, or order from a print house, a hardcopy from their electronic artwork?

I create mostly clipart, so there is no point of printing it out (and I have no idea what anyone who uses my clipart does with it).

As for my fonts, I use them in some of my videos, but have never used them for anything to print.

[A discussion of Edition in the context of hardcopy prints of digital art]

6 hours ago, VectorVonDoom said:

you don’t basically say your work is rubbish

I did not say they were rubbish (nor was I implying that), I said the price was a ripoff. Big difference.

Just compare those prices with those at zazzle.com (which also has a much wider choice of art).

[Free SVG Calendar Templates for Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher]

7 hours ago, PhosPhorus25 said:

True, please correct the months, as well as some of the settings

You got it now. Pondelok is Monday. Nedeľa is Sunday. Nedeľu is the locative case of nedeľa, as in v nedeľu means on Sunday. Mesiac is  a month (as well as the Moon). Rok is a year, a is and (so mesiac a rok means the month and the year). Týždeň is a week. We don’t use any articles, so just skip any the, a, an without translating them. There is no such thing as pondelog in Slovak, perhaps someone misunderstood a pronunciation guide, as if a word that ends with a k is followed by another word, we pronounce the k as a g, and other unsounded consonants as their sounded counterparts. In fact a pet peeve of one of my English teachers was his students pronouncing but as bud.

[A discussion of Edition in the context of hardcopy prints of digital art]

1 hour ago, William Overington said:

Why?

Because they are something any one of us here could create in two minutes. Indeed, some of them seem to be just public domain clip art. And to charge fifty pounds for them is undeserved.

[Free SVG Calendar Templates for Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher]

2 hours ago, Mensch Mesch said:

Thanks to @PhosPhorus25 for the Slovak translation!

Hmm, why are September, October and November in the genitive case, but December in the nominative case? (They should all be in the nominative in the header, and in the genitive case only for a specific date, as in 1. októbra, which is how we say it, meaning "of the first of October".

The months (in the correct nominative case) are január, február, marec, apríl, máj, jún, júl, august, september, október, november, december.

The first day of the week is Monday, so the days starting with Monday are pondelok, utorok, streda, štvrtok, piatok, sobota, nedeľa.

And yes, we start all those with lower-case letters, except if they are starting a new sentence (though in a calendar they generally are in all caps, just as you did).

[A discussion of Edition in the context of hardcopy prints of digital art]

1 hour ago, William Overington said:

These appear to be unlimited edition print-upon-order framed printings.

To me they appear like a major ripoff.

[The Streetcar Boat]

49 minutes ago, Mark Freeman said:

Didn’t fully load for me, but what did was exceptional.

If you click on the tiny picture, it gets much bigger.

[Christmas cards 2021]

10 hours ago, William Overington said:

What does the word FELIZ mean in Portuguese please?

Presumably comes from the Latin felix, which means lucky. But it probably also means happy. At least in Slovak, šťastný means both, lucky and happy. And we say Šťastný nový rok, meaning Happy New Year as well as Lucky New Year. So, perhaps feliz means more than one thing, too.