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My Favorite Tools: The Wipeout Tool


Julie Beck

The painting process I use for oil painting is called indirect painting. This means that I use multiple layers to achieve the final result, letting each layer dry in between. I maintain (relative) control of what’s happening on the canvas, but it also allows for the possibilities of special effects where I use different amounts of opacity, transparency or removal of the paint to reveal the layer below. Throughout my painting life, there are a…

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Pop Culture IS Culture


Greg Ruth

December 20, 2024 - "The best place to learn about a culture, to really uncover what they were about on a daily basis is to dig through its garbage." - Louis Leakey 1966   We're told there's a high wall between the high and the low, between pop culture and real art, and it is a foundational insummitable barrier that can be, only by the grace and choosing of the high end side of this fence, breach it. In illustration for example, breaking all the rules of the medium itself for its own sake, ends up being a bad illustration. However when you do this in "fine art" it's ART. This is a physical fact of each medium that almost entirely is what differentiates one from the other as a fact of how they are and what their goals…

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