This week’s prompt challenge was to create a landscape scene using some form of collage or abstract style. I decided to go with a mosaic model that I wanted to play around with.
“Mountain Mosaic”
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Prompt – gorgeous landscape of mountains, valleys, rivers, and fields of flowers with a brilliant sky splashy incandescent wide angle layered and textured collage colorful mosaic
This first challenge of the week was to create art where weather exists inside a person, animal, room or object—but nowhere else.
8/2/26 “Make Your Own Weather”
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The next challenge was titled “The Person Who Feels Like Home.” The idea was to show emotional connection and warmth, belonging and trust in an image.
8/3/26 “BFFs”
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The next challenge was about transformation and that moment when a solid, liquid, or gas is changing to another state. I chose the word becoming flesh, story coming to life, ink turning from solid to liquid to smoke and on to another transformation.
8/4/26 “Alchemy of Story”
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The next day’s challenge was to depict a cause that we support or that is close to our hearts. I chose protection of pregnant women. 25% of women globally experience violence at the hands of their romantic partners when they are pregnant or postpartum. Pregnant women are 40% more likely to be murdered than non-pregnant women. 65% of all pregnant women who are murdered die at the hands of a current or former intimate partner. 80% of domestic violence survivors who own pets report that their abusive partner has threatened, harmed, or killed their companion animals (used as a deliberate tool for psychological coercion.) I am passionate about protecting all women, but especially the most vulnerable and their beloveds (animals, children, etc.)
8/5/26 “She Matters”
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The next challenge was to create an ordinary daytime scene with moons hidden in impossible places. Mine was not impossible, but had lots of moons.
8/6/26 “Many Moons”
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For the next one, we were supposed to create a scene of mass invasion in a sci-fi, horror, or fantasy setting (no zombies or robots allowed.) I thought of my sister’s horde of wiener dogs and how when they all run in a pack they are like a swarm of invading aliens. lol
8/7/26 “Dachshund Invasion”
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The last challenge of the week was fashion show, only it had to be outrageous. Weird, ugly mix of patterns, sculptured, structural, etc. Worst dressed fashion sort of esthetic. I thought of things like bones, teeth, and eyes that could be really cool.
“Survival of the Fittest” – Darwin never specified how the fittest should dress. Draped in scales, teeth, ancient bones, and watchful eyes, this evolutionary ensemble turns millions of years of adaptation and a few unfortunate extinctions into haute couture. On this runway, we’re all about natural selection.
8/8/26 “Survival of the Fittest”
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And here are some of the honorable mentions that I did not submit, but still published on my art website:
This week’s prompt challenge was to write a prompt that will create a person who represents opposing concepts or elements, such as chaos and order, fire and water, etc. I chose sharp, rigid and bright contrasting with soft, curvy, and pastel.
“Curves & Corners”
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Prompt – A front view surreal portrait of a beautiful African American woman with long, naturally curly flowing hair. The image is divided conceptually at her waist, everything above is soft, organic, flowing, and rounded, including the background image of flowing sky. Her clothing above her waist is loose and ethereal with flowing chiffon, billowing sleeves, gentle folds, swirling ribbons, soft curves, elegance, circles, orbs, swirling clouds, rounded forms, graceful waves, smooth gradients, delicate mist, pastel and muted colors, blended, dreamy, feminine, soft. Below her waist the skirt crystallizes into sharp angular geometry. Faceted polygons, jagged shards, triangles, diamonds, hard edges, sharp corners, fractured crystalline planes, sharp folds, Cubist architecture, geometric abstraction, rigid structures, loud clashing colors, black accents, bold graphic contrast. The landscape behind her lower half is angular buildings, polygonal streets, fractured perspective, sharp architecture.
Platform – ChatGPT
And here are some of the honorable mentions that I did not submit, but still published on my art website:
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This week’s prompt challenge was to write a prompt that will create an image of a building that defies gravity and physics, such as a skyscraper built of water or a castle resting on the back of a whale. I decided to make mine out of paper in the spine of a book.
“Origami Book Village”
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Prompt – A whimsical origami town built entirely from giant folded sheets of paper and scraps of newspaper rises up from the pages of an open book. Geometric folds with sharp creases and patchwork paper engineering form every palace, cathedral, tower, bridge, staircase, archway, rooftop, fortress wall and home. The surfaces show faint ink sketches, faded diagrams, typeprint, and calligraphy. Realistic paper texture and hodgepodge of mismatched pieces. Pretty blue sky with a few fluffy clouds, tiny people wandering the streets of the city. The entire town should look delicate and fragile, a paper village.
Gencraft – Model: 40% Olafs-Whimgear 3.0.
Style – Cartoon.
And here are some of the honorable mentions that I did not submit, but still published on my art website:
This first challenge of my week was to use the framing technique of dead space where a portion of the frame is left unoccupied or uninteresting to force the viewer’s eye to the main subject.
7/26/26 “Pool Time”
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The next challenge was to create a magical pharmacy. Since Time is the Rarest Medicine, some of the prescriptions are An Unhurried Morning, Childhood (limited Supply), One Long Goodbye, Borrowed Youth, Second Chances, Time to Heal, One Summer Afternoon, and Five More Minutes. Dosage – as needed. Side Effects – No Regrets. Please return borrowed time promptly.
7/27/26 “Apothecary of Borrowed Time”
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The next challenge was to create an image that included an anthropomorphic animal with their vehicle.
7/28/26 “Ol’ Bubba”
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The next day’s challenge was to include a classic horror character from a list of old classics including the one I chose, The Invisible Man. Yes, he’s naked in my image. The horror!
7/29/26 “Dancing with the Invisible Man”
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The next challenge was to create a home interior where the furniture, windows, patterns, and objects subtly form one enormous hidden face. Mine won the challenge!
7/30/26 “Hearth & Soul”
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Since my “Hearth & Soul” won, I got to make up the next challenge. However, the other AI artists were quite impatient waiting for me. They had already made some art expressing their displeasure that I thought was funny.
Crickets by Lulu on DiscordWaiting by Junio on DiscordWaiting by Nexi on DiscordWaiting by Lulu on DiscordWaiting by Astarel on Discord
I kept it simple and said that today’s challenge must include water and something or someone partially submerged.
7/31/26 “Quiet Waters”
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The last challenge of the week had to include a lesser known Marvel or DC character. I chose “Rose Tattoo” who was part of the Wildstorm Universe and is the living incarnation of Murder. Wildstorm was bought by DC, so it counts.
8/1/26 “Rose Tattoo”
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And here are some of the honorable mentions that I did not submit, but still published on my art website:
This first challenge of my week was to portray a favorite dream or worst nightmare. I decided to depict one of my recurring dreams of a tornado.
7/19/26 “Nightmare Storm”
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The next challenge was to create a character card for a table top game. I worked on a lovely mystical oracle who has the ability to pause time for others so she can act freely while the world stands still. Her alignment is chaotic good, faction – “The Infusers”, and weapon – tea spoon of fate. Tea is not just a drink; it is a doorway. Her greatest strength is intuition, then potioncraft.
7/20/26 “Madame Camellia”
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The next challenge was to create an image of a mundane, prosaic scene or perfectly ordinary instance, but make it beautiful and stylized in an Art Nouveau style inspired by Gustave Klimt.
7/21/26 “Waiting for the Bus”
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The next day’s challenge was to add one hidden detail into a piece that would change the meaning once discovered. Mine can only be seen if you zoom in on the little girl statue’s face. You will see a blue eye with a tear.
7/22/26 “Crying Girl”
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The next description of a contest was really complicated about biophilic AI with a twist of liminal aesthetics and a reality warp. After digging into it all, it seemed to be about nature taking over architecture or vice versa and boundaries between real and fantasy, alien and familiar. I came up with a strange combination that worked for me.
7/23/26 “Reverent Witness”
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The next challenge had to include an animal that one might not expect in the given scene. I chose a capybara.
7/24/26 “Storytime”
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The last day of the week was to reveal an entire room inside an article of clothing.
7/25/26 “Stories in the Hood”
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And here are some of the honorable mentions that I did not submit, but still published on my art website:
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I am reading Hafiz’s Little Book of Life, poetry by Hafiz-e Shirazi. He is challenging me to become more comfortable with ambiguity. I will share his poem and some of my thoughts on his poem (sometimes with the help of experts when the concepts are too hard for me), followed by a poem and some art inspired by his poem.
Hafiz’s Poem 43:
Life’s conditions Constantly Vary
Do not despair
Some thoughts:
This is another one that reminds me of an AA slogan. One of the sayings in that program is, “This too shall pass.” The circumstances we find ourselves in are constantly changing. We don’t have to necessarily identify with them, make them a part of our identity, or focus on them too much. It doesn’t say we are unaffected by the varying conditions. They might be difficult. They might deeply affect us. But they are not permanent. There is no need to be in the depths of despair, as Anne in Anne of Green Gables would say. It is not for forever, no matter how it feels in the moment.
The flip side of the equation is that fabulous conditions are also temporary. Not to be a wet blanket, but sometimes when things are going well, we expect them to stay wonderful forever. The reality is that there will always be ups and downs, dips and crests; that is just life. It is all part of the ride. And maybe the fluctuations are what remind us to cherish the good times.
My Poem 43:
This too shall pass the needling uncertainty pricking the skin from within the insistent clamor that it’s not enough more must be done
Change is a constant the swell of pride perhaps undeserved but so much better than the crushing weight of being a disappointment
Despair serves no purpose save to root one to permanent inactivity rather screw courage to the sticking place so the arrow may fly
Hafiz. Hafiz’s Little Book of Life. Translated by Erfan Mojib and Gary Gach, Hampton Roads Publishing, 2023.
Amy Bloom has crafted a collection of short fictional stories that are exquisite. The language is breathtakingly gorgeous, though the subject matter is not always pretty. The only common theme is unflinching witness to people’s passion. And that is sometimes dark and ugly and confusing. Most of the stories ponder desire between people who are not meant to be together: an older woman and her adult step-son, couple friends whose partners are secretly having an affair, a married man who longs for the owner of the local coffee shop, or the killer who always aims for the heart.
One scene I thought expressed grief in a lovely, strange, poignant way was after Clare lost her husband William. “When Clare gets off the phone, there’s a raccoon in her kitchen, on the counter…He is eating a slice of bacon bread. He’s holding it in his small, nimble, and very human black hands. He looks at her over the edge of the bread, like a man peering over his glasses. A fat, bold, imperturbable man with a twinkle in his dark eyes. Even though she knows better…Clare says, softly, “William.”
This book is not for the easily offended, nor those seeking gentleness or happy endings. But for anyone who desires a genius turn of phrase and language that will bounce around inside you for a few hours or days, it is a gift. I dream of writing like Ms. Bloom. (Not necessarily the subject matter, but the art.)
Bloom, Amy. Where the God of Love Hangs Out, Random House, 2010.
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It Happened One Autumn is the 2nd book in the Wallflowers Series and is my favorite so far. I love the enemies to lovers trope and this one has it in spades. It also has false friends, kidnapping, near-death danger, terrible mothers, unexpected love, scoundrels, pride and prejudice sort of dynamics, love potion magical perfumes, and defying of stodgy conventions. It is also nearly entirely set at Stony Cross Park, Hampshire, England, which has become my favorite English Manor of all the English Manors I have read about due to the beautiful details about the gardens, ponds, fields, and paths. I want to live there in my fantasies.
This story follows the hopes of the second Wallflower, the American heiress Lillian Bowman. She is beautiful, fearless (unless she is expected to eat British delicacies like calf’s head), and certain she will never experience love. She and her sister Daisy will be spending a month at Stony Cross Park under the annoying eye of the 8th Earl of Westcliff, Marcus. He is a serious man whose “constant striving for excellence led him to get the highest marks in school, to break all records in his chosen sports, and to judge himself far more harshly than anyone else ever could.” The American woman and the British man are both irritated by the mere presence of each other, so of course we know they are destined to have chemistry. And the ensuing developments are very satisfying.
Kleypas, Lisa. It Happened One Autumn, Avon Books, 2005.
These are images created from the description of Stony Cross Park, Hampshire in the novel:
This week’s prompt challenge was “JOY” containing no humans in the image. Emotion expressed through objects only.
“Dandelion Joy”
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Prompt – Hundreds of dandelion seeds float into the sky from dandelions in a field. Beauty, nature, sunlight, breeze. A butterfly flutters by in a bright blue sky and a white cloud drifts lazily.
And here are some of the honorable mentions that I did not submit, but still published on my art website:
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