TODAY'S FEATURED POST
a Thanksgiving story
Don’t have much art that I can show at the moment, so I thought I’d treat you to a fun thanksgiving story. This one time, years ago back when I was just starting out, a friend of mine reached out to me with a prospective illustration job. It was 1996, I was living in El Paso Texas, before I’d moved to San Francisco and gone to art school. Art jobs were scarce and you took…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Vote!
November 4, 2024 - You're tired. I'm tired. We're all tired. Tired of the lies, the ads, the bitterness, the hateful rhetoric, the divisiveness, the name-calling, the texts, arguments, tweets, and posts. Tired. We've studiously avoided overtly political commentary here on Muddy Colors; we don't all think alike (hell, who does?) and know it, and even when one post or another has had some sort of (arguably) political aspect we've also walked a line and tried to respect opposing views (if they can be found among the myriad robot comments about making $3000 a week at home or the benefits of cannabinoids edibles). But it's also absolutely true that art—no matter the message, no matter how realistic or fantastic—is inseparable from, and in many ways a reflection of, the real world. A reflection of us. Above: "Dewey Vs Truman…
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Gooseberry What? Part A
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