Winter arrived the other day with a light sprinkle of snow, and although that might sound lovely to some, it hit me like a club and made my soul weep. I will need to work hard at not letting, what I call the season of death, keep me from appreciating […]

In today’s blog post we are going to look at a recent painting I created and discuss what lies within – what secrets this piece holds that are not apparent even on close inspection. Think about it like an old master’s painting where the artist has painted a new image […]

Today’s blog post contains one of my unique book reviews. In this case, the book in question is The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1952). It is a short book, at 108 pages, so more a novella than a book. It is strange in the sense that […]

Today we will look at a few new art pieces that I created recently. For the most part they were created while experimenting with texture and other elements in mind. Neon Cheke – Modeled & Rendered by Don Cheke I am an occasional participant in the Rebelle user painting forum, […]

Today’s blog post is a book review in the most unusual manner. In essence, it is a conversation I had with CoPilot that took place through the course of me reading Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vennegut (written in 1969). I don’t think it contains any spoilers for those who have yet […]

Not so long ago, I asked ChatGPT to offer suggestions of where to look for art inspiration that was not social media based. It offered a number of generic real-world things to consider – like museums and galleries, libraries and archives, going for architectural walks and looking at nature. It […]