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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I've been redesigning my website lately! Now I have a blog section (including an Atom feed). This gives me a place to round up links to the creative things I make all in one place. ptrgags.dev/blog.html

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Finished this cross stitch pattern of coral! I drew the pixel art myself in Aesprite #embroidery

Completed cross stitch project of stylized coral. The coral is red on purple rocks. The background is navy blue with white lines

Printout of the pixel art I drew for the embroidery pattern.

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Almost there! Just two more columns of navy blue to go. #crossstitch #embroidery

Coral embroidery pattern, mostly finished. The coral in red, the rocks in purple, and the vertical wavy lines in white are complete. The background navy blue stitches are mostly done, there are just two more columns of half stitches on the left that need to be completed.

A "column" here is measured in blocks of 10 stitches wide

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Wow this looks a lot more fleshed out compared with last week! #embroidery

Photo of the coral cross stitch pattern in progress. The coral shape is now completely visible, though only the rightmost branch is fully cross-stitched.

The purple rocks at the bottom are almost done

The navy background is still in progress.

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

And... Finished! I've been rebuilding the lego mosaics for my walls with new patterns. Clearly I'm ready for Halloween and it isn't quite September yet haha

Photo of eight lego mosaics slightly overlapping on a table. At the top, a mini zine shows two of the patterns.

Some are abstract, some are Halloween themed. One is inspired by the 90s Dixie Cup Jazz pattern.

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Progress update on the coral cross stitch pattern! I'm using half-stitches for the first pass, this way the shape appears rapidly. A second pass will turn them into cross stitches. #embroidery

Progress on the coral embroidery project, with the pattern printout on the right.

About a third of the canvas is covered with half stitches

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I thought I'd try posting a #pico8 cartridge to the official site. I'm starting with one I haven't shown off yet: a hitomezashi embroidery pattern editor! See the link below for a live version and more background info! www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=158...

lexaloffle.com

Hitomezashi Editor 1.0

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The other day I started a new cross-stitch project. I drew this coral pixel art myself in Aesprite, now to put it to fabric!

Start of a cross-stitch project of a pixel art coral, with a chart next to it. The chart uses four colors (white, coral, light purple, and navy blue)

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I made a #pico8 animation of a cassette tape! You can find the cartridge on my GitHub here: github.com/ptrgags/pico...

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I took a page out of @jenivievedesign.bsky.social's book. I got a pack of holographic laminate sheets to add some iridescence to my art! I picked a pack with geometric patterns as that best fits my art style. #arttradingcards #aceo

Art trading card doodle in green and yellow with iridescent vertical lines on top where the light hits it. The iridescence comes from the holographic layer

Picture of the doodle in less lighting so you can see the pattern better.

The top left was a polka dot pattern turned into ladybug-like creatures. The top right is a decorative leaf with a... Slug? With three eyes.

The bottom right is a coral-shaped green creature under the sun. The creature has a mustache and has one eyebrow raised.

The bottom left is horizontal stripes with diffusion-limited aggregation patterns that kinda look like roots

Sheet of holographic laminate sheet. The light is angled to show off how it produces iridescent rainbow patterns. This pattern has a grain along the length of the page, kinda like brushed metal

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I'm trying to find a way to store my embroidery projects (including future ones I make) in a way that I'll actually view and enjoy them... Any ideas? My first thought is something along the lines of a 3-ring binder but smaller. Not sure how to mount these as "pages" though. #crossstitch #blackwork

Eight cross stitch and blackwork embroidery patches. All 50x70 squares (except the bottom right one we don't talk about that...)

The fabric is not all the same count, but the largest plastic canvas one would fit in a 4x6 inch rectangle

Older embroidery patches. 2-3 inch squares

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Latest sketch: a screen scrambler!🍳 I'm using some offscreen buffers to copy and paste chunks of pixels. There's a feedback loop - the cursor can select previously pasted tiles! Live version: ptrgags.dev/p5-sketchboo... #p5js #processing #animation #creativecoding

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Yesterday I finished making this unusual clock. It lets you set what hour you wake up/go to sleep. Then you can see what proportion of the day has elapsed so far in a visual way. Live version: ptrgags.dev/p5-sketchboo... #p5js #clock #creativecoding

$Screenshot of my Waking Hours Clock demo. It's a 24 hour clock dial (with just an hour hand). It is divided into two portions. a large orange arc for waking hours, and a smaller purple arc for sleeping hours. There are white numbers outside the circle from 0 (midnight) to 23 (11:00 PM). Another set of blue fractions inside the circle indicate proportions of daytime/nighttime.$

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I've been itching to do something with pixel art. I have some ideas that'll take a while. For now, a little loop. #pixelart #animation #isometric #aseprite

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I made a set of stamps for making rooms and corridors. It makes the kind of maze you find in tile-based dungeon crawlers #linocut #stampmaking

Block print of a tabletop dungeon maze printed using a handful of small linocut stamps for the different room/hallway types

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

My favorite stamp I've made so far is this shrimp! #linocut #stampmaking #blockprint

A linocut print of a cartoon shrimp with a big googly eye. On the right, the stamp itself, positioned to be a mirror image of the print

Shrimp roll! No, not sushi, the shrimp stamped multiple times on a card, like an animation of a shrimp rolling off the page to the left

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This week I tried a new medium -- block printing! It pairs quite nicely with my art style. #linocut #printmaking #stampmaking

Two prints. On the left, a white on black print of a braid repeated several times at a diagonal on an index card

On the right, a white on black print reminiscent of the veins of a leaf, though the small veins are a bit more grid like.

Above each card is the block I carved

Picture of various linocut blocks next to carving tools (gouges) and shavings

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ I made some new bookmarks for the occasion #pridemonth

A pair of bookmarks. One is a Progress Pride flag, the other is also a Progress flag but with squiggly, stylized lines.

Above it, a bunch of watercolor brush pens used in the making of the bookmarks.

Earlier work in progress picture with only about half of the stripes colored in, and before I traced the outlines with fineliner pen.

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Finished the white stitches, now I can start the last color! Yes, this is using the colors from the non-binary flag, just in time for #pridemonth! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #blackwork #embroidery

Same abstract embroidery pattern, now with yellow stitches added to the plaid region in the middle

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Happy #pridemonth! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 I had cross-stitched this Progress flag a year ago. That was before I was on Bluesky so I never posted it. #crossstitch #embroidery

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Starting a new embroidery project. Trying out plastic canvas for something new. Quickly learning that translucent fabric is less forgiving on the reverse side. Curious to see how it looks as I fill in more details #blackwork #embroidery

A rectangle broken up into irregular polygons in black thread on translucent plastic canvas

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Haven't done an ink wash in a long time, so made this abstract doodle. The colored parts were drawn in fountain pen ink. Then smeared with a water brush This time I traced the outline in fineliner. In the past l would't bother. #artisttradingcards #inkwash

Abstract doodle reminiscent of two cross section of underground tunnels. The top one is in mint green, the bottom in orange.

This is an ink wash, so I used a water brush and smeared the colors. I outlined the result with fineliner once it dried

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Playing around with contours to make a round shape have a sharp ridge #artisttradingcards #abstractart #fountainpenart

Abstract doodle of a blob with contours that make it have a sharp ridge

Above it, some fountain pens

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I realized I never made a banner for my profile. So I drew one! The best part? It doubles as a bookmark! #abstractart

Bookmark I'm using as a new cover photo. Above it, a pile of brush pens and sharpies.

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Thought it was time to change up my monogram! The intent was never to keep it a static logo, but one that evolves over time, while keeping the same overall layout. Of the designs here, I picked the middle one. #monogram #hand-lettering

Three cards, each with my monogram PG drawn in a different style

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I doodled a pattern of squiggles, and it reminded me of cartoon ghosts. And from there it made me think of ghosts singing a spooky chord. #artisttradingcards #aceo

A doodle of a choir of ghosts, singing a spooky minor major chord (EbmM7)

Above it, the fineliners and brush pens used to draw it.

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

This doodle mixes old and new art styles. I've done piles of shapes before. The coloring is a more recent style for me. #artisttradingcards #abstractart

Abstract geometric doodle of a pile of shapes in blue, purple and orange.

Above the drawing, the fineliners and brush pens used to make the drawing.

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Another random doodle I made today, in a different style than my usual! Brush pen and fineliner on blank playing card. #artisttradingcards #snek

Doodle of a snake carrying a backpack through the desert. The snake extends its tongue towards the stars and takes a deep sniff

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I've been experimenting with different fractal rendering techniques lately. I liked how this one turned out! live version: ptrgags.dev/p5-sketchboo... #creativecoding #p5js #fractals

$Screenshot from the fractal animation. it's a number of cartoon vortex shapes in mint green and red arranged in a fractal pattern$

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I wrote some music to go with the ocarina visualization! Live version: ptrgags.dev/p5-sketchboo... #p5js #creativecoding #animation

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I'm starting to add conformal geometry to my sketchbook. This way I can animate funky nonlinear transformations like this one! (in this case, parabolic Möbius maps) Live version: ptrgags.dev/p5-sketchboo... #p5js #creativecoding #geometricalgebra #mathsky

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Added an ocarina visualizer to my music system. It plays along with the score with accurate fingerings! ptrgags.dev/p5-sketchboo... It's tricky to find melodies in the right pitch range. So I tried transcribing Misfits Make it Work by @alphachromeyayo.com to MIDI and imported that.

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Finished* the maze embroidery! Somewhere in the middle of making it I had the idea of making the hallways different sizes to be more visually interesting! #embroidery

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Today's abstract doodle: "and the walls will ooze green slime!" #abstractart #arttradingcards

Geometric doodle of a dripping green blob over the background of an orange brick wall.

Next to it, two fountain pens.

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

From the lab: I'm working on an animation that makes use of the boolean color blending concept. Live version here: ptrgags.dev/webgpu-sketc... Feedback is welcome, I still plan to tweak this a bit before I'm done. #creativecoding #animation #webgpu

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Well this doodle took a turn! It started with a few curvy shapes, and somehow it escalated to a boss fight #arttradingcards #abstractart

Abstract doodle depicting some sort of gooey creature with a stretchy hand in the foreground. The creature is looking up with concern at two flying creatures with pointy teeth and eyestalks. There are also two barbed tentacles descending from the sky.

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

This is now live! ptrgags.dev/webgpu-sketc... I was curious about the binary blend modes in Krita like AND, OR, XOR. So I made this visualization that shows the "multiplication table" for various combinations of operators and colors. #creativecoding #webgpu #mathart #mathsky

$A diagram showing a grayscale color palette blended with a cyan-to-magenta color palette using the bitwise AND operation. The result looks like interleaved fractals, one branching out from the bottom left in cyan. The other branches out from the bottom right.$

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Today was fountain pen inking day. I thought I'd start a log to see how the palette of colors changes over time. I tend to keep 6 pens inked at a time, and cycle pens in/out as they need refilling.

A page titled "Ink Swatches". There's a grid with 6 columns. The first row is filled in with the pen colors of the week.

On top of the paper, are 6 fountain pens lined up in the corresponding order.

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Wow, it's been a while since I made a fountain pen doodle. Let's fix that! #arttradingcards

Abstract doodle of some sort of creature (looks something between a lion and a gear?) in the top right corner. A semicircle is cut out to make a mouth.

Behind the creature there is a pattern kinda like a topographical map on the left. At the bottom, a pattern of train tracks.

Surrounding the drawing, a few fountain pens and a pair of scissors.

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Peter Gagliardi @ptrgags.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Progress after a couple more sittings #embroidery

Progress photo of the maze done in couching on Aida cloth. It's about 2/7 rows of 10x10 blocks complete.

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