Thought Forms
I love annotating books. Irreverently. With diagrams and research notes. When I open a book after months of not touching it, I often laugh, trying to understand what I was thinking at the time. I…
The Lighthouse Coastal Academy
The text below is transcribed from radio broadcast I picked up while on a recent time travel DX foray into one of the futures of northern Ohio, about the Lighthouse Coastal Academy, a school set up…
Blog Post: Why art contests make your relashionship with art toxic
A new blog post about quitting contests for a while.
Heat
Jean-Christophe Defline and I found a cool little side street to draw in Rouen. Even though it was early in the morning, the temperatures were already approaching 90 degrees farenheit. There was a…
Getting Picky
I have now got 12 songs for the new album, and possibly 13 (how wonderfully 'unlucky'!) It's too hot to do anything: I've just cancelled going round to Gina's. I haven't seen her for so long I have…
Dead Ice — Liam Sprod
As I pass through this middle space of the forestry forest and the railway, where the town has […]
David Hockney on what makes an artist
David Hockney sadly passed away on 11th June at the age of 88. In 2019, the Royal College of Art did a video with him where he talked about his time there and how it influenced him. We were born in…
One song, seven ways: covering my own music with AI
Feed your own music to AI, and it spits out surprise after surprise. Here's my one song served seven ways.
Fine Flowers
Epithalmion for Tyler by James Tate I thought I knew something about loneliness but you go to the stockyards buy a pig’s ear and sew it on your couch. That, you said, is my best friend – we have…
Fade to Blue
Redesigning as a method of interrogation. Okay, okay, okay. I did it again. Sometimes you design a thing, or redesign it, or evolve it, and you think you're there . But this unsettling feeling sinks…
Cornchip
Got inspired to draw Churchill, I had a lot of fun drawing him after so long. My work week has been so crummy and of AI bs that I need real authentic joy and creativity to keep me going.
a letter from the orchestra pit
the work of the musician is not the work of the machine
Seussical Jr: Totally Not Work Related
In totally not work related news, I've been working on set design and construction for a musical theater show ...
June 23, 2026
Art Gallery, gift art updated. Art Gallery Traditional Art - 1 new pace. New Knick Knacks page. Petz camp large banners and Misc Knick Knacks - Event Image updated.
New Freebies ♥
I made two new freebies up for grabs including a stamp and a button. They both denote mature themes on my site. Please feel free to use it! ♥
How I Designed Merchandise For 15 D&D Classes
I set out to design merchandise for 15 D&D classes and accidentally turned it into a three-month lesson in creativity, website building, repeating patterns.
Making a Security Zine for friends and family
Last week I printed a small booklet, folded it, stapled it, and mailed copies to friends and family. I used my sweet Dungeons & Dragons stamps! Eight pages, in color. It’s the second volume…
ruling pens (five pack 25+four on writing)
Raw was done with a wide hake brush on 12×18 sulfite paper. I used a light grey muddy wash and pushed the color to blue in the computer. , I love how the rough ruling pen meets the sharp flat…
Finally updated OC pages!!!
After several months, I've improved my oc pages in time for ArtFight. I've also add two new ocs from my comic series.
CHAPTER 1: DURGA
DURGA 14th November, 1956 “My Dear Husband, The room was a mess when I entered. A sari lay in a heap on the floor, pieces of paper flying around, a miniature whirlpool in the blast of the ceiling…
Writing as an art form!
Hello! I have a short announcement of some sorts. I am someone who believes in Writing as an art form in itself that deserves way more merit, which only becomes more important amidst today's…
Tuesday poem #690 : Mike Bagwell : Father's Day
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Anish Kapoor disorientates, delights and disturbs at the Hayward Gallery
Kapoor likes his art big – think Chicago’s highly reflective “Bean” sculpture – and his new London show follows suit. One installation appears alarmingly like guts and there’s a monumental,…
JR’s inflatable cave across the pont neuf is now open in Paris
The artist JR has created an installation artwork covering Paris’s Pont Neuf. This is not a duplicate of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapping but rather a printed fabric mountain range within which…
"Which shoe fits?": A poem about suicide
A semi-found poem about sanitized language.
art, hunting for beetles & more
Looking for my favorite beetles, and painting again.
Untitled, 2001
What a tragedy. What a tragedy. A painting on the wall and an actor on the stage. Painted in red, draped in white, blinding, bleeding. One, two, three, many, many layers of paint. Four, five, six,…
A puppet test!
A puppet test! My BIGGEST inspiration for this sort of animation is John Howe, the artist behind the DGD Robot with Human Hair music videos… LIKKKE, it’s been a dream of mine to work on…
To my pa'ti
A letter in Fae, transcribed and annotated.
Job Clarendon for Book of Paul
See some BIG Job Clarendon on Book of Paul, a 2026 album by Texan country artist Paul Cauthen. The album was designed by Mitchell McCleary, with photography from Tyler Ellison. See more at Fonts in…
Das Auge (The Eye)
A poetic text for Mondays, in German and English
Prince Tedus and the Lion Headed Orc
Circa the 25th day of Summer year 955 since the foundation of the Empire. In some summer evening, long ago, the kids of Kenton were sitting on the mud. All, even the "long-sticks", wished their pain…
Cross BRIDGES ... 2026 Bridges Galway Conference
Each year an international BRIDGES Conference celebrates the connections between mathematics and the arts -- featuring connections with music, literature, visual art, theater . . . Here is a link to…
The Venice Biennale: Canicula. Oppressive temperatures and societal suffocation
Canícula, the “dog days of summer”, uses the physical and psychological strain of extreme heat as a metaphor for overwhelming conditions that threaten societal collapse amid excess and polycrisis
Odds and Ends: June 2026
Three new limited-run John Berkey prints went on sale recently. Granted, they're not cheap: Each of these will cost $300. They're beautiful, though! I particularly like the first one…
Book Review-The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
“Legend has it…” In the lore of business, it always starts with on the back of a napkin. That’s the genius of the book, The Back of the Napkin: Solving […] The post Book Review-The Back of the…
If Math Is Clay
A studies dynamical systems. How a point change over time following a rule. She told me that simple rules can produce unexpected behaviour. This stayed with me. It feels very close to my artistic…
Update! I edited their portraits! I was unhappy with the outcome of those two for the LONGEST…
pikkissis:Get to know Io and Collin! 🚀🌼💙original posted belowGod Bless!Keep reading Update! I edited their portraits! I was unhappy with the outcome of those two for the LONGEST time… but I…
bluesky | mastodon | stickers | commissions
bluesky | mastodon | stickers | commissionsBoy howdy I went and made another coat of arms, this one just for myself. ALSO I drew a bonus fae-cat crest.Time to petition the Canadian Heraldic Authority…
Ash Ode - Dean Young
Ash Ode - Dean Young
the beautiful night
In the night I come alive I become one The lonely child In the night I wash away my sins I smoke with the devil And disappear into the light In the silence of the night I have no fear In the darkness…
Art review: ‘De boerendans’ (the farmer’s or peasant’s dance), Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1567.
This article was originally (partially) a thread on social media,which is why it is formatted with lots of images and short responses.The text is about the image below that paragraph. This time…
crack - 22. an unexpected visitor
by nick nelson part 22 of ? for previous episode, click here to begin at the beginning, click here bill arrived at his office ten minutes early, as he usually did, with a coffee, and as it was…
Portico
Portico renders input as a three-layered visual abstraction.
Cuento: El puré
El puré especial de la tía era lo único especial que tenía, eso y que era la más alta de la familia, aún se preguntan de dónde abra tomado los genes del crecimiento; pero la altura era algo con lo…
Digressions on pixel art icons
I'm playing an game from 2013 era called eMush 1 and also maintaining its wiki. I'm sometimes creating new visual assets for special events. This has made me fall in love again with pixel art icons.…