Darryl Joel Berger

draw things, paint things, write things, make things ... number 320 … this is what you want, this is what you get The Venn diagrams are looking pear-shaped.

If you prefer reading experiences to taste like stinging nettles, then I have a new Tinyletter (free, on Substack) out today: drawpaintwriteandmakethings.substack.com/p/draw-thing...

It's Inktober again — an ink drawing every day this month. This is ink brush straight to found paper.

"If you can't draw something, just draw it." — Dieter Roth

#inktober

sweet william (please, maiden)

mixed media on canvas

22 x 28 inches

the vertical line you see is string, which was used to help lash the canvas to the easel, and then worked into the painting itself

ready to hang, with wire affixed in back

#originalpainting

La Grosse-Île. #parkscanada

draw things paint things write things make things, number 318 … goodbye july A long, dumb month that demands active resistance.

Why I don't like July.
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SAY GOODNIGHT an original painting in tempera and acrylic on a vintage map of Montreal 33 x 47.25 inches, but folds down to just 11 x 12 inches to fit in an...

the painting is on a vintage map of Montreal
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a picture and words
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A God you understood would be less than yourself.
— Flannery O'Connor #collage

This is a gel monoprint. It has nothing to do with the Tinyletter I sent out today (drawpaintwriteandmakethings.substack.com/p/draw-thing...), which is about being haunted by Bryan Adams, what that says about the end of culture, and how people don't want to hear you complain. #culture

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Put up a story on my Patreon today, it's very quiet and a bit mad and absolutely free. Link in first comment below. #shortstory

Some crackly old-school listening in the studio. #CassetteCulture

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gel print and some pencil. #art #artshare

This is painted on a vintage map. I take disused and obsolete things and try to make something new. This is in tempera, which is like painting with pumice.

23.5 x 47.75 inches but folds all the way done to 6 x 12 inches

"You can cage the singer but not the song."
— Harry Belafonte

#originalart

Incidentally, John Dall is the ‘good’ brother, which is funny after just seeing him in Gun Crazy (made the same year).

The other night we watched this 1950 film noir where Lee J. Cobb is a little too casual about covering up some over-anxious gunplay by Jane Wyatt. The fact that he’s a cop further complicates things, and his younger brother being the detective working the case makes it all but impossible. #filmnoir

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Blue #monoprint

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Watched Gun Crazy on the weekend. More gun than crazy. But some of that, too.

what i like to do, in my spare time, is expect nothing. you can do this in an active way, for example when out for a walk, getting some fresh air and exercise. or you can do it in a passive way, in the comfort of your own home, perhaps from under a blanket, endlessly scrolling your phone.
#badvibes

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the empress awakens
an original mixed media painting on canvas
24 x 36 x 1.75 inches
Whoever makes me unhappy for a day, I will make suffer a lifetime. — Empress Dowager Cixi
#painting

the whole sky; ink brush on yupo, 8.25 x 11.5 inches
"Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky."
— Anaïs Nin
new substack today
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#drawing

we may miss our star (control)
mixed media collage on panel board
9 x 12 inches
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. — Jean de La Fontaine
#collage

A (very) short story I've posted to my Patreon, which I use like an old-school blog, everything free. #FlashFiction
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a strange adventure (surely a spell is upon me)

an original concertina art card
36 inches long but folds down to 4.5 x 6 inches to fit in an envelope

The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.
— Julio Cortazar

#art

it never really leaves you
I don’t know what you want, but this is a 16-by-20-inch painting on canvas panel. Double-sided, as there is a collage in the back. You could frame it or sit it on a mantel or a shelf. Or the corner of your cubicle. To remind you that you’re alive.
#originalart

the composer

compose yourself. compose a poem. compose an elegant journal entry, such as five things you are grateful for, or your intention for the day, and what do you want to become, and who do you need to destroy? really, what have you learned from all of this? probably nothing. #art