Darryl Joel Berger
@drawpaintwritemake.bsky.social
Drawing, painting, writing and making things.
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Sunday morning and I'm posting on Bluesky ... I might as well be writing private blog posts in 2002.
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Imperial Star | draw things, paint things, write things, make things
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November 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Sunday morning and I'm posting on Bluesky ... I might as well be writing private blog posts in 2002.
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I still like to write the story, draw for the story, edit it, design it, print it, sew it into a book, then make an audio version. Because. Because I'm old and my brain is glitch-stuck at 2003.
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November 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I still like to write the story, draw for the story, edit it, design it, print it, sew it into a book, then make an audio version. Because. Because I'm old and my brain is glitch-stuck at 2003.
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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...
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.
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October 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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
"If you can't draw something, just draw it." — Dieter Roth
#inktober
October 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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
"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
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
September 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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
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
Why I don't like July.
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draw things paint things write things make things, number 318 … goodbye july
A long, dumb month that demands active resistance.
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August 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Why I don't like July.
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a picture and words
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say goodnight | draw things, paint things, write things, make things
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July 31, 2025 at 3:37 PM
a picture and words
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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
June 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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
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
June 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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
June 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Some crackly old-school listening in the studio. #CassetteCulture
May 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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
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
May 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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
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
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
May 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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
Watched Gun Crazy on the weekend. More gun than crazy. But some of that, too.
May 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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
#badvibes
May 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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
#badvibes
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
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
May 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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
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
"Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky."
— Anaïs Nin
new substack today
open.substack.com/pub/drawpain...
#drawing
May 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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
open.substack.com/pub/drawpain...
#drawing
"Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky."
— Anaïs Nin
new substack today
open.substack.com/pub/drawpain...
#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
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
May 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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
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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May 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A (very) short story I've posted to my Patreon, which I use like an old-school blog, everything free. #FlashFiction
www.patreon.com/posts/cade-j...
www.patreon.com/posts/cade-j...
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
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
May 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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
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
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
May 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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
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
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
May 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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
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