TODAY'S FEATURED POST
Rock & Roll Fantasy Series X 2 Plus a Strange Skull!
Horns up!! Thought I'd share a few quickies this month from IX con! All of these paintings were one session pieces, and I attacked them in the same way. (Pretty Much) I started with an acrylic Wash over a Conte pastel drawing. Working in the Conte first, kept the drawing light and flexible. I could lift it off in areas if needed, and I stayed with like a brick red pastel so I would not…
YESTERDAY’S POST
The Third Self
August 8, 2024 - As creatives develop through their career, we gather influences. Some influences are short-lived — personal trends that catch our eye for a moment and are discarded — and some are long-lasting. The longest lasting become kind of a council in our mind. Work that you can go back to again and again and get new insights out of. I think we can all name a number of artists that make up this special curated garden for us. Many of us do the same with authors. There are people I have never met but who I consider as important an influence on my mind and philosophy as the therapist I see every week. If you go back through my Muddy Colors posts, you can easily see some names repeat again and again — Joseph Campbell, Carl…
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