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As Long as We’re on the Subject of Jackie Vespertine

Sortmind Blog Posted on July 15, 2018 by Michael D. SmithJuly 15, 2018

Here’s the final version of Jackie Vespertine, a completely digital version of the original pencil drawing which has its strange flaw as described below. I lack deep image editing skills but used newly discovered GIMP freeware to experiment with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Character Images, Drawing, Excerpts, Jack Commer, Nonprofit Chronowar, Novels, Painting, Publishing, Science Fiction, The SolGrid Rebellion, Writing | Leave a reply

Uncomplicated Redefinition

Sortmind Blog Posted on December 30, 2017 by Michael D. SmithDecember 30, 2017

I had the idea of painting a 12” x 9” November journal drawing onto a 50” x 32” canvas, but when the morning to paint came and I studied what had been a fun and meditative drawing, I found myself … Continue reading →

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CommWealth is Published

Sortmind Blog Posted on August 16, 2015 by Michael D. SmithJanuary 4, 2016

Dystopian? Black comedy? Literary? Mainstream, contemporary–what on earth do those terms really mean? CommWealth has been published by Class Act Books. Describing a society in which all forms of property have been banned so that a deeper sharing can take … Continue reading →

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The Official Portrait

Sortmind Blog Posted on June 15, 2015 by Michael D. SmithDecember 20, 2016

Jack Commer, the Official Portrait overpaints a despised pencil image. I’d entered the original October 2006 drawing, “Jack Commer, Supreme Commander, United System Space Force, ca. Summer 2036,” into a “Superheroes” art contest in Denison, Texas that fall and I’ve … Continue reading →

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CommWealth!

Sortmind Blog Posted on October 23, 2014 by Michael D. SmithJune 12, 2015

My novel CommWealth (no, there’s really no exclamation point in the title) has been accepted for publication by Class Act Books. Publication in eBook format is scheduled for June 2015. CommWealth describes a society where there’s no legal claim to … Continue reading →

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Default Forces

Sortmind Blog Posted on March 4, 2014 by Michael D. SmithJune 12, 2015

I’ve grown quite enamored of this painting I did a couple weeks ago.  But I hated it and cursed the monster as I fought to hook it and lash it to my little boat for hour after demented hour like … Continue reading →

Posted in Acrylic, Art Process, Drawing, Painting, Satire | 2 Replies

Jack Commer Series Images

Sortmind Blog Posted on June 17, 2013 by Michael D. SmithJune 13, 2015

I finally pulled together various Jack Commer images I’ve done over the past couple decades onto one web page at: http://sortmind.com/wordpress/index.php/the-jack-commer-supreme-commander-series/jack-commer-images/ The impetus came from finding what I’d remembered as a mediocre, crudely done black and white sketch for the … Continue reading →

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Introduction to The Wounded Frontier

Sortmind Blog Posted on May 6, 2013 by Michael D. SmithJune 13, 2015

Who would ever have thought that the fascist Alpha Centaurian Grid, linking twenty trillion citizens of the seventeen suns of the Alpha Centaurian Empire to their psychopathic Emperor, would turn out to have an important benefit to humanity?  I’m working … Continue reading →

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Arboreal Ghosts / Last Stop This Route

Sortmind Blog Posted on September 8, 2012 by Michael D. SmithJune 13, 2015

I think a couple years ago I would have thought “Arboreal Ghosts” another “excellent painting” to add to my “body of work.”  But what the painting really is, and I think I see this with newly-opened eyes, is another “decent … Continue reading →

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The Continuing Abstract Art Crisis

Sortmind Blog Posted on March 31, 2012 by Michael D. SmithJune 13, 2015

Being overly busy and overly inclined to slap projects together and ship them out the door, declaring victory after victory, I have not been much inclined to slow down to zero and come to grips with my crisis in abstract … Continue reading →

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