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TODAY'S FEATURED POST

Turning Points: In Italy Edition


Lauren Panepinto

Hi everyone, I'm on SABBATICAL. Orbit Books (our parent company, Hachette, actually) has a sabbatical program where after 15 years of working for the company you get a month off to do something healing/educational and heal a chunk of burnout. And I've been in Italy! I'm about halfway through, so I'll do a recap of everything and thoughts on sabbatical in general next month. For now, here's a repost of a fave episode on my…

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Painting with Gold Leaf


Greg Ruth

June 7, 2024 - I don't really have a better word for it yet, and I confess the name is truly wrong for both disciplines... but together they make a kind of sense. I began fiddling with leafing about six months ago, and have continued to revisit it again and again, sometimes in making unique pieces with the leaf, but largely relying upon its natural quality to adorn by utilizing it to embellish special edition prints for DUNE, THE LAST OF US, etc... there's a remarkable beauty to this kind of adornment on existing color work and it certainly fits in with my own preordained love of for flat cutout outs and negative spaces set against really rendered practical art. I am by no means a professionally schooled person when it comes to gold-leafing. OR sumi-e work for that…

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