TODAY'S FEATURED POST
Step By Step: Portrait In Oil
Back in 2017, I attended a working art retreat with friends. I was working in games, so my day job work was all digital, and I was itching to get the traditional media out and paint. I didn’t feel a pressing desire to paint a fantasy scene or portfolio piece at the time. I’d been meaning to paint a portrait of my mother and had taken photos the last time I visited her with that…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Recommendation and Review: Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise
June 24, 2024 - [caption id="attachment_77079" align="aligncenter" width="579"] We start here, with Dr. Strange taking a very fluid and magical nap.[/caption] I don’t (and couldn’t) read every comic that comes out. I’m sure a lot of things out there are excellent, and I am personally aware of how difficult it is to make something at all, much less something sublime. I want to talk about a project that moved and impressed me in a powerful way. The last time I was swept away by a work was probably Barry Windsor Smith’s WEAPON X, and probably for some of the same reasons. A corporately-owned superhero becomes the instrument of a capable narrative voice, and the overcrowded favela of mediocre and garish melodrama is escaped for a brief time. [caption id="attachment_77078" align="aligncenter" width="900"] I love the creative ways Dr. Strange manifests…
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A Note on What´s Important
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Painting a Series
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
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Rule of Thumb
Monday, November 22, 2010
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The Mud of Venus, Part 2
Friday, November 19, 2010
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“The Vanishing” photo ref
Thursday, November 18, 2010
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