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Darryl Joel Berger
@drawpaintwritemake.bsky.social
Drawing, painting, writing and making things.
https://linktr.ee/darryljoelberger
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
October 1, 2025 at 2:33 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
September 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
La Grosse-Île. #parkscanada
August 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
A God you understood would be less than yourself.
— Flannery O'Connor #collage
July 8, 2025 at 3:56 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
June 24, 2025 at 1:36 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
June 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Some crackly old-school listening in the studio. #CassetteCulture
June 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
gel print and some pencil. #art #artshare
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
May 28, 2025 at 1:25 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
May 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
May 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Watched Gun Crazy on the weekend. More gun than crazy. But some of that, too.
May 20, 2025 at 2:13 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
May 16, 2025 at 12:44 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
May 13, 2025 at 6:31 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
May 12, 2025 at 3:09 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
May 9, 2025 at 2:11 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...
May 8, 2025 at 3:36 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
May 6, 2025 at 3:15 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
May 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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
May 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
some scissors and paper and glue, some simple movements and craft before bed, some paris collage club #pariscollageclub
May 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
April 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
that’s enough for me

original collage in mixed media on wood panel

11 x 14 inches

This is a painting for someone who knows how to walk out a door.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
— William Blake

oh my god, it’s a collage

#art
April 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
so what have you done? #art
April 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
today might be the day; tempera on an old map, 34 x 34.5 inches
“Apparently there is nothing that can’t happen today.”— Mark Twain #art
April 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM