You have probably heard of Tommy Wiseau's The Room , a B-movie that everyone mocked upon its release, only for people to return to it years later and admire its lack of quality and horrible dialogue,…

Every time I finish a draft, I need to face the reality: my draft sucks. Stiff dialogue, absent descriptions, plot holes larger than my apartment. But I can make it better. Revising is hard work, but…

i think a reason many artists love creating fantasy worlds is because they can envision their own idea of a "perfect world" . ( ooooor a world that's gone to pot, but that's not the topic of today's…

August 10, 2030 Snow between the birches, going blue with evening. Woodsmoke from somewhere behind her. The t

Smooth Albatross Lilac Twilight Hammer Time Sordid Tail Current Wonder The Cross Purpose When Doves Cry The Horacio Alger Posterchild Hope Easterly Windsong Warning Dark Heap of Opportunity Automatic

Like most people who studied English Literature in college, I've fantasized about writing a novel one day. Over time that goal has, let's say, slimmed responsibly to fit its britches. These days I'm…

I was going through my older scene files over the weekend looking for interesting ones I could share on my Patreon. I came across the VUE file for “Circumpolar” from 2007. It’s one…

a return to poetry and writing

Even robotic food carts need love. PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, AUGUST 18, 2026.  Hey, I’m Adam, a 25-year-old Uber driver living in a studio apartment over an auto-parts store in lovely Paterson, New…

The challenge of a mid-career survey is to sum up an artist’s trajectory while it is still evolving. A case-in-point is Adams, whose colourful paintings of Black people at leisure convey “Black joy”.…

When I first saw this oil on canvas depicting what appears to be a rather mundane scene from a park in Ville-d’Avray in the suburbs of Paris, I was quite struck as much by what it lacked as by what…

One of the best poems about risk. Can’t imagine living a life playing safe all the time. Yes we have to risk at some point. Because sometimes, it’s the only way. “To laugh is to…

The draft of this illo was actually more circular blobs, but as I smudged things around, they turned more cloudy, so I rolled with that and it has become a sky and cloud-like illo. My first time…

Bobbie Heron

THE LOST CHAMPION – MEASURING activation two of a five-part series Saturday, September 19 @ 10AM Meet Location: GCAC Lobby *This is a free program and includes walking. Please wear comfortable shoes…

I made two songs this month made while writing and painting and learning about minor chords.

A creature born into our world through violence, tragedy, and unanswered questions. Description When a dying individual whispers "Why?" , it acts as a small prayer—a desperate plea to understand…

Home isn't home without you. The week we spent together quickly flew. I forgot what it meant to live alone. Only to feel it with gusto once you were gone. For a fleeting moment, it felt like my…

Week 29 This week's icon is for Deimos Hall's project: Metamorphosis: "Edit metadata" Check out all weekly app icons created so far in the gallery and follow my icon creation adventures as they…

365 looks on one triangle — McCloud’s Big Triangle made explorable, style neighborhoods, and a validation check of how vision models place art next to the original map. Can AI use it to map art…

Having had to leave everything behind, a pilgrim finally reaches the sought destination...

I’m having a new exhibition here in September this year, once again returning to 1200 Postcards on Queens Road in Hastings: Flesh & Bone An exhibition of life-drawings by Paul Watson. The new…

‘Hello.’ ‘I have a boyfriend.’ He knew both instructions, whether it was true or not. But it was late. The idea of having a conversation about, say, The Idiot , or The Gambler (Polina…), would have…

The Adventures of Alice and Bob in The Corporate Borderlands A working space. There are screens, and at least one cool keyboard. One of the screens is showing the C.E.O. Tags: art tech-industry…

An interesting, somewhat poetic quote: Found (along with lots more) at Quote Investigator website: Quote Origin: Mathematics Is the Simple Bit. It’s the Stuff We Can Understand. It’s Cats That Are…

There's a place you can go to Whenever you need some peace and quiet With a geometric human-made pond Where ducks and a grey heron choose to live. Today, it lies past the empty mineral square With an…

In which I go back over the process I followed in creating “A Bug’s Nap,” the next in the BugVerse children’s series…

After the Crash, June is pulled from the vaporised lands around the now destroyed Ingolfsfell, the last free outpost of Charybdis, a planet struggling under Syndicate control for centuries. Now, she…

We're used to seeing Earth from the ground level, and it's easy to picture the pale blue dot version as well. Today, we're taking a look at the Goldilocks zone between those two…

after a 4 month hiatus I'm back to updating my website (despite still being super busy at work)! I changed up the art page to only display my original character artwork, removed iframes, and uploaded…

2026 is another year of short stories. In this weekly series, I track my short story writing, from idea and draft to submission. This is the week of Aug 10 – Aug 16. Stats Submissions and…

At the end of a recent residential singing weekend I was acutely aware of absence when everyone had left. The silence was almost painful. It got me thinking about the different kinds of silence in…

Creative limits are good, necessary even. And I find limits in form to be very useful when writing and designing adventures. A story or adventure can take several different forms. Our current…

In May 2022, I started posting profiles of artists, crafters and writers who depicted poultry in their work. Some ofContinue Reading

[Two Cranes on the Edge of a Pond, Indian School, c. 17th century.]

The three of them sat in the summer garden, Ian and Tanis at opposite ends of an ornate stone bench, Emily stretched flat in the dry prickly grass. “It could be a day or a hundred years gone by if we…

bestberry On her wedding day, the nyad gave her mortal lover a secret name. Whisper it over any bramble stem to reveal her hidden favour: A round and generous blackberry, with enough juice to slake a…

One of my current art inspirations is Katie Moody , a mixed media sketchbook artist who makes dreamy loose landscapes in cheery colors. She shared on Instagram that she would be one of the featured…

I’d like to think of printed publications, posters or zines as not necessarily the end product trying to convince anyone of anything, but rather as “working towards establishing conditions for the…

I have published a new poetry pamphlet on the publications page , and it's available free as a PDF: City of Dreamers and Woodlice . These are ecopoems from the last decade or so, gathered together…

sounds

The other day I was delighted to discover an Australian journal article about a country house that Romaldo Giurgola designed for himself in 2004, when he was eighty-five. As far as I know this was…

gewgaws, trifles, flimsy things, songs, and romance novels

Went to The Button Factory to watch Meaning 1 , a performance art show hosted by Sandy Loam . Honestly, I was really confused for most of it—from the poster I thought it was going to be a fine art…

Devotion rendered as theology: a short story about a man's total surrender to a woman who occupies the god-position — traps, silence, and all.

I've been busy in the studio this summer, but as I sat down to chronicle my progress, I looked back to see when I last published a blog post about my works in progress and realized that I haven't…

Another year another successful Artfight.

New art on the gallery page :D

The creativity series opens with the generative core value: the dynamic of change traced back to the subject — a musician's difference made in private, travelling out to countless many.

I participated in the 2026 GMTK Game Jam, my role was a pixel artist. I share the sprites I made and talk more about the project.