This week’s Prompt Challenge was called “Classic Horror.” We were supposed to create an original horror piece using at least three classic horror clichés in one cohesive scene. No villains, characters, movies, or references to existing horror franchises were allowed.
“Enduring Love”
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Prompt: Close up of a skeleton hand holding a large bouquet of flowers by the stems and placing them on the ground near the base of an ancient gravestone by dim moonlight. The flowers on laying on the ground with the hand still touching them.
Platform: Gencraft;
Model: Olafs-Whimgear 3.0
Style: Polaroid
Some runner-up images that I did not enter into the contest, but still published on Gencraft:
Because I won the Prompt Challenge about Silence last week, it was my turn to come up with a challenge for the others. I called it “The Scene Outside the Frame”. Create an image where the most important thing happening is completely outside the picture. We never see it. The expressions, body language, lighting, movement, reflections, or reactions of objects inside the frame must make us understand what is happening beyond it.
Some examples might include a fishing pole bending dramatically into the water with a fisherperson’s facial expressions showing awe, the facial expressions of a groom seeing his bride coming down the aisle, a horror scene with the scary thing behind the viewer, people staring at the sky as a giant shadow covers them, etc.
My example is called “Celebrity Worship”.
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Platform – Gencraft; Model – Image 3.0;
Prompt – Bright, pop-art comic scene of an ecstatic crowd packed behind a red velvet rope at a celebrity event. Everyone looks toward the same off-screen point with exaggerated excitement: screaming, gasping, pointing, reaching, holding smartphones high to take photos, hands on cheeks, wide eyes and open mouths; one overwhelmed woman dramatically faints in the crowd. Diverse colorful characters, dynamic poses, vintage comic-book illustration, bold yellow starburst background, bright colors contrast, crisp detail.
This first challenge of the week was to create an image of an animal working in a professional career. We had to demonstrate technical control and a distinct point of view.
8/16/26 “Hyena Comedian”
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The next challenge was in honor of Curt Siodak who is the inventor of the modern werewolf myth. We had to pick an element of the modern myth to illustrate.
8/17/26 “Werewolf”
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The next challenge was to create an image that shows only a tiny part of something absolutely enormous. Without showing the complete thing, perspective, surroundings, or other clues should imply size. Mine was not as colossal as everyone else’s.
8/18/26 “Giant Athlete”
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The next day’s challenge was in the style of the Dutch Old Masters.
8/19/26 “Midnight Snack”
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The next challenge was a hard one that I needed ChatGPT’s help to complete. It had to be a video game including LEVEL UP or LEVEL COMPLETE and the interface with gaming features. I know very little about video games, so I needed quite a bit of guidance. I made a game about making AI art!
8/20/26 “Prompt Quest”
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To my shock and surprise, I won the video game image challenge. So I had to make up the next one. I had everyone make a book cover for any genre with an image, title, and author name, at minimum. And I provided a silly example.
8/21/26 “Romance Novel”
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The last challenge of the week was to use shades of grey to create an image and only use subtle hints of others colors to distinguish it from a traditional black-and-white image.
8/22/26 “Elephant in the Mist”
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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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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 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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