For this year, I've decided that I'm going to draw at least one sketch per day. The goal is to build a habit and draw more consistently. Last year, I would sometimes go days or even weeks between…

the surgeon approaches herself on the table she touches her arm and it's all transcendental electric impulse flowing but you've lost the touch, she says, for art in all the hard paternal tones, like…

2026 is another year of short stories. In this weekly series, I talk about short story writing, from idea and draft to submission. This is week eleven: Mar. 16-22. Stats Goals and Results My goals…

Michelle Kingdom's embroidery unveils the delicate threads that bind our internal worlds, much like Paola Pivi's cosmos grown from lemon trees.

i face the sea im drawn to play i face away im pushed back to the ever-war i close my eyes there is a cry when i go in its all of me and nobody

Canaletto used a camera obscura to trace the architecture of Venice on site.[1] He used the camera sketches in turn to produce finished drawings and paintings. Fig.1 reproduces two pages from…

WowHaus 1960s midcentury modern house in Cambridge An interesting design, this 1960s midcentury modern house in Cambridge, is also a snapshot of a bygone era.   That latter point is interesting…

Daily Drawing 813

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The year 2007 was a busy one for our small writing group, and in August we held Round 16. For this round we all decided to try our hands at writing a children's story. It took me a while to decide…

Carl Bloch (1834-1890), Danish painter. Title: “En Dreng, der fisker.” (A boy fishing). Date of artwork 1872. Oil on panel. Dimensions: 27 cm × 18 cm (10.6 in × 7 in). Exhibition history:…

Moving from childhood to adulthood, the author's new poetry collection confronts and reconciles expectations in order to live authentically.

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethspanncraig.com Self-editing can’t replace professional editing, but it can make your manuscript stronger before it reaches your editor. Also, the less time your…

This collection of tongue-twisters started back in 1996 and has thousands of examples in over a hundred different languages! There were a few in here that I remember saying as a kid and giggling…

I usually like to go with the flow But here is what’s weird about time All of the things that you think you know Can one day just turn on a dime

In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop

shrinking, shrinking, shrinking the last light squeezes shut and I am blinded by dark static the terrible comfort of what I know what I have always known. the snake devours its tail and I scream in…

70sscifiart:ALTHere’s a nice big version of the 1978 Don Davis cover for Carl Sagan’s The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence! Big thank you to art blogger…

holiday blues it is sunny you are on the beach you are still a dog but i like dogs so that can't be it she is talking about herself, again, it's mediterranean golden sands and phthalo blues and…

ALTHere’s a nice big version of the 1978 Don Davis cover for Carl Sagan’s The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence! Big thank you to art blogger @le-tas-d-art…

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“Tinned Fish Newbie” is a tiny zine about the tinned fish I’ve been trying the past few months. Nine pages held together with a fish paperclip (it’s cute!), inside a decorated Altoids tin. Each tin…

Man wird auf ulkige Art zum Teil des Stadtbildes , sagte Katharina und meinte damit die Blicke und Fragen, die wir in den Ehrenfelder Straßen um das Studio komplementaer herum bekamen; was wir denn…

Some people made sourdough to get through the pandemic. Cheryl Donegan went through her closets and Margiela’d the hell out of what she found: 90s-era Dries van Notens, her grandmother’s…

As I walk, to the stables, that North Wind gifted, my mother, on her wedding day, and draw out, a horse, given to me by The Mountain, for guarding her peak, from the mischevious, forces of Weathering…

At the start of the year, I had high hopes for making a round-up post of everything I made in 2025. I'm now three months into sitting on the draft, and I feel an urgency to get this out before…

This funny cartoon by fine artist and producer of post office tat David Shrigley has strong Mister Bob vibes.

I recently realized I’m terrible at crafting stories. For years, I imagined I’d write a great story one day. I pictured random readers online recognizing my gift and elevating me toward a renowned…

forgot that i didn't add femtanyl and tokyo shoegazer in my favorite music. also I discovered drivers to the sun thanks a friend and i'm in mad love

I started the week playing around with some strange attractors. Kate Ertmann wrote a great post about the beauty of strange attractors, and they're something I've always been fascinated by, having…

First published in Oyster River Pages While on our drive to meet Sara’s folks in Port Angeles, the three of us stop at a lodge so my son can use the bathroom. I lead Daniel through the lobby to the…

And why making with or without it takes courage: You're expected to make art that's intimately (perhaps even painfully) personal — yet alluring and easily grasped by an audience that has likely never…

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‘Let the trial commence!’ commands a mighty voice, filling the hall with clamouring echoes. As one, the robed spectators rise from their seats as a shaft of light pours down upon the pinnacle,…

Early spring days and haiku #11

One more new piece of chibi art has been added to the artwork page.

Whenever I stay still, I feel the spiders weave their webs around me. Their tiny legs entangle me in silk, traverse my body as they seem to proudly inspect their work and into darkness sink.…

Firefly glowing in the dark, in the forest, in the night This is how I see you, uncapped lighting in a jar If I'm walking in the dark, in the forest, I'll hold on tight A sign of hope I can hold onto…

The weirdness that haunts me leaves me lying in the middle of the street, Lost in monotonousness, but walking steadily to the cradle. My hands are frozen, like wood in a fire As I stand still,…

35E, 35E. Stuck here in the middle of the middle, 35E.

It’s documented evidence of your team’s past compromises

Realized I never posted my bag! The base bag I got from a convention flea market, but all the buttons I illustrated myself in csp and put together at my local makerspace over the course of a couple…

What prompted me to start doing origami some years ago was the legend about a wish granted after folding one thousand paper cranes. For that I bought a cube of one thousand small paper squares, and…

Happy autumn/spring equinox!

Visited the exhibition 'Idem at Idem' at Concordia with the works for five AKI students.

Dana hatte mich beim letzten Nachbarschaftsabend im Kunsthaus Kalk zu ihrer Ausstellung mit Andrea Neumann eingeladen, auch um die Räumlichkeiten der Produzentengalerie Zoozmann und das dort…

For this week only, It This Something? is reimagined as a zine! An assignment for my Publication Design class prompted this exercise which, apart from scanning the end results, required no computers…

&ldquo;Great Gothic large window open to a park (stage set)&rdquo; drawn by the Catalan artist Lluís Rigalt in 1850. National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC).