Prompt and Confused

Prompt and Confused is a collaboration inspired by the weekly photo challenges offered at 52Frames.com. Each week (or so) we’ll update with our creative responses to their prompts.

“ I use an iPhone 14 Max Pro to shoot and Snapseed, Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop for editing and clean up. My goal is to continually improve and have fun as a Toy Photographer.”

Matthew D. Holtmeier gatheringsplinters.com

“I’ll be using the Remarkable2 tablet as my main drawing device. Minimal editing will be done with GIMP and Inkscape. I’m hoping that my art style will lend itself well to the limited greyscale palette.”

Centered Composition- Week 43

Everything begins and ends with Shuma-Gorath! No one can stand against my tentacled fury.

They call me “The Dark Whimper”

Shadows - Week 42

Dealing with the weight of what happened…and how to move forward.

Here even the shadows wear masks…

Time - Week 41

It was in this apartment, also, that there stood against the western wall, a gigantic clock of ebony. Its pendulum swung to and fro with a dull, heavy, monotonous clang.

Edgar Allen Poe - Mask of the Red Death

… not even an whimper…

Texture - Week 40

The Count demands expensive sleeping accommodations. The wood - Black Walnut, the paint, acrylic.

Drawn while listening to ambient music… sorry.

Soundtrack - Week 39

‘Messy’ - Lola Young

One Light Source - Week 38

Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet.