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 […]
Art Interlude – Hidden Within
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 […]
The Old Man and the Sea
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 […]
Textures
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, […]
Slaughterhouse V
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 […]
Apotheosis of AI
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 […]