TODAY'S FEATURED POST
Unleashing Your Superpower!
[caption id="attachment_79578" align="aligncenter" width="768"] The Passion Awakens (detail of face) The Full figure painting is 48" x 48” x 2 1/8" mixed media on three assembled cradled panels © Lisa L. Cyr, Cyr Studio LLC[/caption] Have you ever spent time in a museum just gazing at a portrait or studying the connection between the characters in a narrative painting, feeling completely captivated? I know I have. The depth of emotions that are conveyed, the subtle…
YESTERDAY’S POST
TrendWatching Part 2: Castlecore, Pre-Raphaelites, and Feminist Nuns
February 20, 2025 - Hi everyone, I'm back this month with more on trendwatching, but make sure you go back and read Part 1 before you go ahead and read this one. Part 1 was talking about HOW I think about trends and this post is a real-world developing-around-us example of that philosophy. Back? Great. So last month I talked about how important it is to think about trends as layers, and that the deeper you go the further ahead you can see. So for me, first layer would be looking at book covers coming out from other publishers — well, that's really too late, because book covers have to be designed about a year ahead of when the book's on sale date is. You can get a little info about which genres are trending up by looking at…
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