Shady days

Posted on 8th December 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Shady Map
Shady Map flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

On a cloudy day
Still, there are moments of light
Birds sing, and I smile

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Silent Sunday

Posted on 7th December 2025 by NomadWarMachine

333/365 Sunset
333/365 Sunset flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Little Miss Jigsaw

Posted on 6th December 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s TDC asks us to:

Find a suitable image. Now cut it up into several pieces (16-32 is a good range). Now rearrange those pieces to form a different image. Bonus points if you go beyond squares and triangles.

I decided to make a jigsaw, so I searched for a free, online jigsaw maker. I uploaded my mastodon profile pic and followed the instructions. You can solve it for yourself here.

Doodle Jigsaw
Doodle Jigsaw flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Doodle Jigsaw Solve
Doodle Jigsaw Solve flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Earthsea Map

Posted on 4th December 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s TDC asks us to

At the site, Plotted, users make maps from books they are reading. Explore the site’s many maps and choose one to share, or use one of the maps to make some interesting art, or if you want, create your own literatured-themed map there or elsewhere and share that.

I found a map of Earthsea, and added a wizard

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Little Miss Glitter

Posted on 1st December 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s TDC says:

You love creating art, right? You like doing with it us here in the Daily Create, right? Put it on the shelves with this frame (transparent PNG to overlay your image of CreArting DS106 style).

For my first attempt I uploaded my doodle to LunaPic and used the glitterize filter, then use PPT to put the files together. This worked fine on screen, so I used the export as function to save as gif. Again, it all looked fine but when I added it to a Masto toot it looked like a static image.

So here’s my second attempt – a static version of the image uploaded to Giphy and glitter added there.

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Silent Sunday

Posted on 30th November 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Glasgow Uni Tower and the River Kelvin
Glasgow Uni Tower and the River Kelvin flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Alice in LaceyLand

Posted on 29th November 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s TDC asks us to:

You and your favorite book. Combine that pair into art. We want to know the title of the book.

Use text and images; parts of the story; your emotions and drive to read that one.

I chose Alice in Wonderland – one of my many favourite books. I searched for Tenniel’s illustration and photoedited Lacey cat’s head onto the cat. Quick and dirty.

Alice and Lacey
Alice and Lacey flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Blog Post Title Generator

Posted on 28th November 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s TDC asks us to

Use the Portent Title Generator to randomly generate a title about DS106…then WRITE THAT POST!

So I did. Amusingly I got this prompt

Portent Title Generator
Portent Title Generator flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Amusing, that is, as I usually complete the activity soon after it is published at 10am my time, but today I’ve been caught up in meetings and with workmen, so have only just sat down to look at it at 3pm.

Anyway – here it is. Another post from me talking about how I love to do the Daily Create every day because it stimulates my creative mind and helps to take me away from the daily grind. And because practice doesn’t make perfect, but it does make better.

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Royal Cats

Posted on 26th November 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Royal Cats
Royal Cats flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Photogram

Posted on 24th November 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s TDC asks us to

Make a digital photogram without the need for special paper or chemicals.

It’s a busy day here, with work and also a wee guy painting the house, so I knew I’d need to cheat to do this one. I found some black card and sketched out an owl, cut that out and photographed it on top of some printer paper.

Monochrome
Monochrome flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Then I uploaded it to Lunapic and used the negative filter to make a photogram

Photogram
Photogram flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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