5.20.26 Terran Tarot Day

What if Your Tarot Deck Had Hidden Chapters? If you’ve ever picked up a traditional tarot deck, you know the familiar journey of the Major Arcana. It’s a beautifully structured path, a map of life’s great mysteries. But what happens when a story universe expands beyond traditional boundaries? What happens when the world of Terra…

Creating Esther in Costume Part 2

If you haven’t seen it, here is the original post. Esther is the best friend to my lead character in the Renaissance of Self series. Esther wears a costume in Part 1 – The Escape as she competes in one the central events of the novels: the Historical Sewing Society’s Renaissance and Age of Discovery…

Creating Esther in Costume

So one of the things in my novel, Renaissance of Self: Part 1 – The Escape, is that Cressa’s new friend Esther is competing in the Historical Sewing Society’s Renaissance Era costume competition. In the competition, Esther is recreating this painting: Esther is recreating this specific portrait. One that I have never seen before researching…

Using Nightcafe to create my cover art

So this is the cover idea I shared when announcing I had finished my draft. Well shortly after finishing my edit to refine that draft to the point I am ready for other people’s eyes to take it in, I was caught once more by how, while this is fine… none of the characters are…

A new novel idea has hatched

As I wrote recently. I have finished my first draft of my novel Renaissance of Self. In keeping with the advice of many established authors, I am letting that book rest. It will rest until July 1st when Camp NaNoWriMo begins and then I will spend the whole month dedicated to editing it. In the…

Digital Self- Portrait

It starts with a selfie. It became AI art, then impressionistic, and finally a digital painting. Check it out!

Hellfire Arrives on Raven’s Wings

This piece began with an ai-generated image using the words “symbol of the witch.” It was enhanced by TaLi to accentuate the raven and the hellhound. The fire dances with the Kanji for that element, overseen by a pentagram coin. The serpentine cross fills the center accompanied by 666, the ‘devil’s’ number. This bold image…

Drain Away the Light

This piece began with an ai-generated image using the words “symbol of the witch.” It was enhanced by TaLi to accentuate the three characters and their symbolic morality. The black demon, servant to the witch, holds the pure white being for the gray witch to consume. The act of consumption pushes this dark witch into…

Futura Dreams By The Sea

This piece began with an AI generated image from the words ‘you matter to me for the dancing and the dreaming’ then enhanced with more cityscape, higher definition on the elegant, bound woman and her mysterious, empty cloak of a captor. The futura dream is a child being consoled, possibly in a digital environment. Is…

Steampunk Dream

This piece began with an AI generated image from the words ‘you matter to me for the dancing and the dreaming’ then enhanced with clouds, more steampunk elements, and the focus couple was recentered added by TaLi. This piece shows an upper couple fully in the steampunk world with a steam-powered tank. The lower couple…

Love’s Passionate Dance

This piece began with an AI generated image from the words ‘you matter to me for the dancing and the dreaming’ then enhanced by TaLi adding to and altering the background into a bigger city view, sculpting the shape of the figures to make them clearer, and honing the focus. This piece shows the passionate…