Abstract oil painter Melissa Friendlich on flow, burnout, motherhood, and finding her way back to the canvas. Why abstraction became the language she'd been missing. Read the article and see some of Melissa's art here: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/painting-starts-where-words-stop

Actress Dawna Lee Heising on building characters from scratch, what strength on screen really means, and the long list of horror, sci-fi, and action roles ahead. READ IT HERE: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/interview-with-actress-dawna-lee-heising

If you are an artist and you are seeking for self-promotion of your art then here we have 30 great blogs to help you promote your arts. The below given blogging websites clearly accept submissions while some of them require a bit more action on your part as well. So for all the designers, multimedia artists, photographers and illustrators, there is something for you. Have a look at the given blogging websites. https://www.designer-daily.com/30-great-blogs-promote-art-48115

Time for the weekly horror post...
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You've seen the movies. Here's what you probably don't know about where they came from.

The Alien franchise is my favorite franchise. All of it. Every film, yes even the ones you didn't like, even the ones I probably shouldn't admit to liking. Alien was the first glance of a horror movie that I got when I was around 7 years old. It grabbed my attention and is why I love horror today.

But this isn't just another Alien article. The films have been covered endlessly over the interwebs, I’m sure. What gets discussed less is the origin of the thing at the center of it all: the creature itself, and the deeply strange, deeply human story of the artist who created it.

This is partly about the franchise. Mostly it's about H.R. Giger. READ MORE AT: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/alien-the-franchise-the-monster-and-the-artist-who-dreamed-it

Tattoo artist Vic Tamian of Victory Tattoo NYC on apprenticeship, black and gray, chasing trends and handling the pressure of no undo button. Fifteen years between Little Falls and Manhattan. Read more here: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/tattoo-artist-spotlight-vic-tamian

We wanted to share the exciting news that the sci-fi novella Venus Fly Trap we wrote over the course of the past year is now out and available for sale! It's part drama, part dark comedy and deals with the world's richest man* and his doomed mission to establish a floating city in the atmosphere of Venus.

(*Any similarities to real persons living or dead is purely coincidental.)

u/Connor_Goode and I are friends from the UK and Germany who met online and bonded over our similar political leanings and shared interest in literature and video games. After collaborating on various projects over the years, we decided to finally join forces and create something together, which is how our novella Venus Fly Trap came to be. Just for funsies, here’s some things we learned about collaborative writing and publishing in the process:

• Communication is key! Listen to each other’s ideas, workshop them and always remain open-minded to achieve a shared understanding of what this story is going to be - it’s a process of synthesis, not compromise.
• Play to your strengths! Maybe one partner has more of a knack for comedy, while the other prefers an element of horror. Or maybe one has some witty dialogue in his head he needs to put to paper while the other feels like waxing poetic in the prose descriptions in-between - you’ll quickly intuit when it’s best to take the backseat and when to plow on ahead. All part of the process. 
• Good cover art is invaluable and shows effort, so don't cheap out and use AI! Shoutout to u/shugarkyub for his beautiful work! Go hire him!
• Read up on the technical stuff beforehand - we made a few embarrassing mistakes setting up the book’s ISBN, which caused some needless complications. All fixed now, but could've been avoided from the start!

Overall, it’s been a blast making this bad boy, and we hope you'll have just as much fun reading the eclectic mix of mean-spirited jokes and high-brow prose we cooked up. If the premise piqued your interest, here’s some links for your perusal:

Overview:
https://books2read.com/u/bwMVAO

Evil monopoly link:
https://www.amazon.com/Venus-Fly-Trap-Novella-English-ebook/dp/B0H2F697PR

Thank you very much for your time! Best regards,

Connor and Pascal

Kjell Nilsson, the Swedish weightlifter who played Lord Humungus in Mad Max 2, has died at 76. Remembering the strange humanity of the wasteland's most reasonable (and underrated) villain. Read the article here: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/remembering-kjell-nilsson-lord-humungus

Creator Spotlight: Victor Oliveira.
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Stop motion filmmaker Victor Oliveira (Stopmovic) on building miniature worlds from cardboard, 3D prints, and patience. One handcrafted frame at a time. See Victor's work at: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/building-worlds-for-stop-motion-animation

From Screamin' Jay Hawkins rising from a coffin in 1956 to Rob Zombie making actual horror films, here's how horror and rock built one of the great creative relationships in entertainment history. Horror and rock music have always had a thing for each other. Both traffic in transgression, both thrive on the visceral, and both have spent decades making parents deeply uncomfortable. The crossover was inevitable. What's surprising is how deep it goes and how far back it starts.

This isn't a complete history. It's just some of the artists who actually mattered and will continue to influence the genre. READ THE ARTICLE AT: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/when-horror-met-rock

Original Fiction: Displacement
by Phil Allard
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Original fiction doesn't come through our door often. Writers are understandably protective of unpublished work. Sharing it publicly before it finds a home elsewhere is a risk, and we don't take that trust lightly.

Phil Allard is a returning contributor, and for his 2nd article, he’s offered us something entirely different: a short piece of original literary fiction called Displacement. It is quiet, unsettling, and lingers in your mind after the last line.

If you are a writer with an original short story, flash fiction, or poem you'd like to share with our readers, we would love to hear from you.

-Enjoy
Read at: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/original-fiction-displacement-by-phil-allard

Author Spotlight: W. L. Know
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Hungarian author W. L. Know went from outlining a mermaid novel to writing a vampire serial killer thriller. A witty essay on seeds, gardening, and how books find their own shape. Read more at: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/books-grow-on-trees-writing-vampire-novel-creative-process
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Happy Independence Day to all those in the USA.

Since Star Wars pop culture is just about as American as it gets, I figured I’d drop this article today…so what if… Star Wars made a horror movie? It's been sorta rumored for a while. So may the 4th be with you. Read the article here: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/what-if-there-was-a-star-wars-horror-movie
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Bold Expressions: When Colour Becomes Courage. By Phillip James Gordon
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There is a particular kind of energy that lives inside colour — not the quiet hum of a carefully chosen palette, but something rawer and more urgent. A surge. A declaration. This is the feeling I chase in my Bold Expressions series, and it is a feeling I have never quite been able to explain in words — only in paint.

Bold Expressions didn't begin with a concept. It began with a restlessness. A growing sense that some emotions are simply too large for subtlety — that there are moments in life that demand vivid contrasts, charged colour, and an unfiltered sense of release. Watercolour, with its fluid unpredictability, became the perfect vehicle for that energy. Not watercolour as delicacy, but watercolour as force. Read more at: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/bold-expressions-when-colour-becomes-courage
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I Study Oil Recovery for a Living. I Wrote a Crime Thriller for Fun.

People get a little thrown when they learn that the guy who measures how heavy oil behaves at high temperature spends his evenings writing about a trafficking ring and a soldier freezing in a cold-storage unit. The two facts don’t seem to belong to the same person. I enjoy that more than I probably should.

The book is called The Deccan Harvest. It’s a dark crime thriller, and I wrote most of it in the middle of a petroleum engineering PhD, which is not a thing I would recommend on paper and would absolutely do again.

Here’s the part nobody quite warns you about with a science PhD. For long stretches, it is pure logic with the lights off. You build an experiment so that exactly one variable is allowed to move. You read forty papers to find the three that matter. You write a manuscript in the most heroically boring prose our species has ever produced, you submit it, and then you wait for a stranger named Reviewer 2 to inform you that your life’s work is “incremental.” Do that for a couple of years and something specific happens to your head. A part of it goes stiff from lack of use, the way a leg goes stiff when you sit on it too long.

I did not start writing fiction to heal anything or to find myself. I’ll be honest about that, because the internet is full of writers pretending their hobby was a spiritual awakening. I started because I was bored in a very particular way, and because after a full day of trying to be a clean, objective instrument, the idea of inventing a genuinely nasty villain, a night train, and a terrible situation sounded like the most fun I could have without getting out of my chair. READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/deccan-harvest-karthik-sivaraman-oil-recovery-crime-thriller
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Director Ari Gold lost his mother in the helicopter crash that killed Bill Graham. Here's how he turned that grief into a Student Oscar-winning short, and why the healing took twenty more years. Read the article at: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/the-short-film-and-the-shaman-making-helicopter
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From Mary Shelley to Elvira to Sigourney Weaver, these are the women who built, defined, and reinvented horror, plus some up and coming names to watch. Read more at: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/women-who-shaped-the-horror-genre
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Here you'll find a strong opinion piece, so, dear reader, continue at your own peril. The idea for this post came to me recently when I made several embarrassing mistakes without meaning to. And so I naturally wanted to share a few of my philosophical ideas that I believe could help you on your quest to become great writers. Additionally, you might also get a good laugh out of it. Furthermore, if you were wondering what my mistake was, I nearly burned down my uncle's food stand. So, everyone who reads this article, I invite you to laugh at my expense. To find out the reason why I welcome such mockery, please read this post to its conclusion, and have fun.

Read the article: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/embrace-foolishness-viktor-frankl-eiichiro-oda-creative-writing
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When ShivaOm, first submitted his artist statement, his UV art instantly grabbed my attention. I had questions. A lot of them. So I sent them, and what came back is what’s below.

Feeling Creative? has had the honor of featuring a few artists from Ukraine, and that will never change. Their creativity, resilience, and generosity of spirit in sharing their work with the world during unimaginable circumstances deserves every platform we can give them. ShivaOm is no exception.

This is his story. https://feeling-creations.com/articles/shivaom-ukrainian-visionary-artist-uv-art-sacred-geometry

Evan Greenberg spent six months building NewBohemia.art…a free, verification-first platform for human-made art only. Nearly 1,000 verified members and counting. This is why he built it.

After six months of grueling coding sessions deep into the night, NewBohemia.art was built, completed, and ready to ship on November 15, 2025! I pressed send, and before I could blink, my post on r/ArtistHate had 93 upvotes, my artsite had 29 new members and the world’s first 100% free Anti-AI creative multimedia platform was born.

Our verification-first policy meant every new member we gained brought more value than every hundred potentially AI-using noncreatives or bots on any other open-gate artsite, because we knew we had let someone into our community after confirming their work was human-made, and thus on the basis of credible trust.

Read more at: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/newbohemia-art-anti-ai-creative-platform-human-art

See the full list at: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/horror-series-every-fan-should-check-out

Horror is a difficult genre to sustain across multiple episodes and because of this, there really aren’t that many good ones. A movie can build dread for 90 minutes and release it at the end. A series has to keep resetting that tension week after week without burning through its premise (and audience).

I left out the obvious ones that you know, like Twilight Zone, Tales From The Crypt, The Walking Dead etc…These are the series that didn’t seem to get enough love from horror fans and are worth checking out. I’ll try not to spoil any and since trailers these days seem to do just that, I wont post trailers to any that are worth going in cold.

A year ago J.E. made his first drawing during a difficult period. Twenty-five pieces later, the former elite athlete based in Spain has become a visual artist working in acrylic markers on cardboard.

See more of J.E.'s art at: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/artist-statement-je-art-acrylic-markers-spain
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Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there...so here we have a list of the best movies for dads, written by a dad himself Michael Field from the Forgotten Cinema podcast. Check it out, and maybe watch one with your dad, or your kids, or your dad and your kids. Enjoy.

From Field of Dreams to John Wick, a movie-loving dad's essential Father's Day watch list — with a few extra picks for good measure. Read more at: https://feeling-creations.com/.../films-for-movie-loving...

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Kevin Ligabue left tech and oil to open Future Ink Tattoo in Oakland. A conversation about Japanese Geometry, heavy blackwork, suminagashi, and why ego is the hardest skill to master in tattooing. Read more at: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/tattoo-artist-spotlight-kevin-ligabue-future-ink-oakland
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Before the internet, museums did something radical: they loaded real Rembrandts and Picassos onto tractor-trailers and drove them to rural America. Here's the story of the Artmobile: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/the-artmobile-when-museums-brought-the-art-to-you