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
Timelapse of my latest Musicscape!
September 24, 2024 - Quick one for you guys this month! Being a guitar addict, I was researching the guitars the Beatles played, and had a revelatory moment where I was thinking, how cool it was that at times specific guitars are as much a portrait of a famous musician as the musicians themselves. Next thing you know I was as eager to paint the guitars as I was the portrait. Maybe more eager. I think there are many folks (myself included) who would rather hang a surreal painting of an instrument than they would a literal portrait. It somehow allows the viewer to get inside the painting easier. And the good news for a guitar addict, is that when I paint them, I feel less of a need to seek them out and buy them, lol. …
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