Artist, graphic designer, & tech consultant in Charlottesville, VA

"Journals of War" Mixed media on paper. 30"x40". (lemsy, 2023)

“Journals of War” (Lemsy, 2023) Hi, friends. This piece was started ...

silver colored microphone

Recording the rest of our senses: touch, smell, and taste.

What if our smartphones could suddenly, faithfully, and quantifiably reproduce our ...

David, John, and Jack LeMasney

Two photos of me and my sons together.

A while back, I decided to go into GIMP and create an image of me and my sons, but ...

StreetBeefs Cage Redesign

Here’s the story of the time I repainted a cage for a popular fight club in ...

disease of the mind cc-by lemasney

illustrated quote: "To set what you like against what you dislike', cc-by lemasney

Using Inkscape to illustrate text cc-by lemasney

The Dawn of Man

Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey, Forwards and Backwards.

John LeMasney played Kubrick’s 2001 backwards and forwards simultaneously. ...

Mark Twain on what is important.

Technology Classes with John LeMasney

I have the honor of announcing that Jefferson-Madison Regional Library (JMRL) has ...

big brother is watching (lemasney, 2016)

Big Brother speed illustration cc-by lemasney

big brother is watching speed illustration (lemasney, 2016)

Culinary knife cuts poster by John LeMasney via lemasney.com

Nakiri Knife drawing.

This is a speed drawing of a Nakiri style vegetable knife using the open source illustration ...

Large group of birds in Virginia, cc-by lemasney

A large group of birds in Virginia cc-by lemasney

Large group of birds in Virginia, cc-by lemasney

Creepy tree — This content is published under the Attribution 3.0 Unported license.

Day 211: another creepy tree #GIMP

Day 210: A vector sketch of clouds by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #drawing #creativecommons #cc-by — This is a drawing of clouds in the GIMP. I added layers for the sky and each set of clouds, added a simple cloud shape […]

Day 210: A vector sketch of clouds by John LeMasney ...

Fiery pylon — This content is published under the Attribution 3.0 Unported license.

Day 209: Fiery Pylon #GIMP

Manual tilt shift lens effect in the GIMP by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #blur #focus #depthoffield — In GIMP. I used two layers, the original without blur, beneath a duplicate layer with full blur. Then I applied a black to white gradient […]

Manual tilt shift lens effect in the GIMP by John ...

Mac and cheese — This content is published under the Attribution 3.0 Unported license.

Day 207: Love is like mac and cheese #Inkscape

Trucks pattern — This content is published under the Attribution 3.0 Unported license.

Day 206: A regular pattern of trucks #Inkscape