TODAY'S FEATURED POST
Interview With Cover Aritist Kelley McMorris
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…
YESTERDAY’S POST
less is more
September 19, 2024 - Dug a little deeper into the high key overexposed painting thing again this week. I’ve been wanting to do a portrait of Kevin, our other mastiff for a little while now. He’s such a sweet old boy. Had it in my head to do like a “night lighting” portrait of him. He’s blind, and his eyes have that cloudy look to them that i think could look cool in that lighting scenario. But then a couple days ago, I snapped a blown out photo of him sleeping, and was drawn to the abstract vignetted quality of it, so I decided to give it a shot. Here's where we're at so far. Gridded this out because I really wanted to make sure I got the shapes as close to the reference as I could. There's so…
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