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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

In today’s blog post we will look at a few of my recent art pieces and see what they provide as fodder for further investigation. Lets’ start with the feature image which I have called Purple Rain. Purple Rain has…

Today we will talk about a book I read recently and about scars – about how we all have them, or as one could say, carry them. The book in question is called “Michael Without Apology” by Catherine Ryan Hyde.…

Today, we will consider what love is and we will look at some of my recent art. On September 22, 2025, Denise and I took a road trip to Prince Albert, SK. We often take road trips during the day…

Today’s blog post, in part, is meant to be a tip-of-the-hat to songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist, Leonard Cohen. I only discovered Leonard Cohen later in life, and it’s just recently that I have spent time listening to many of…

I had an urge recently to do a bit of 3D modeling, something I had done every day for a couple of decades but tapered off when I began my foray into digital abstract art. Abstract art has been a…

Today we will be looking at the topic of interdependence which I made note of quite a while ago and left until today to write about. Perhaps you recall me having mentioned in previous blog posts the incessant train horns…