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Interview With Cover Aritist Kelley McMorris


Kirbi Fagan

I connected online with Kelley, admiring her career in book cover art. Her work was everywhere I looked. We met in person in Seattle at a portrait workshop run by Muddy Colors Founder, Dan Dos Santos. I made sure to snag a seat next to her! Since then, Kelley has worked on book covers for all the major publishers such as Abrams, Disney and Simon & Schuster, primarily using her Cintiq Wacom. She’s repped by…

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Saying Goodbye


Justin Coro Kaufman

August 22, 2024 - Lost my best bud a little while back. Knew I wanted to do a painting of him, and had a few pics selected  that I'd shot one morning of him laying out in the sun to work from. I've always done paintings of loved ones who've passed. It's sorta been my way of saying goodbye. I think about them as I work, and try to paint how I remember them into the painting a little bit. It's a nice way to work through those feelings, and in the end to I made a nice little memorial piece that lives on in some way. But I couldn't do it with Bob. I managed to get a drawing done and transferred it to a panel, but I could not bring myself to paint it. I'd look at…

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