TODAY'S FEATURED POST
Before The Paint
The Character In Context Show first opened in 2024 at the A. R. Mitchell Museum in Trinidad, Colorado, and becomes an annual show with it's return this coming May. The show is curated by fellow illustrator Elliot Lang, and has a unique focus on the process that goes into artists creating human-made, hand-crafted artwork. Each artwork is accompanied by an artifact of the preliminary process, hanging alongside the final. Starting this new painting during the…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Jamie Windsor on Working Through Low Periods
December 4, 2024 - Just over a year ago, I wrote a piece on acknowledging when things are bad and moving forward through it. At that time, I was in the middle of a challenging stretch where clients had gone silent and I was finding it very difficult to find meaning and motivation in my work. Because I was still in the middle of it, I had a limited perspective on the situation. Having (thankfully) emerged from that place, I can see how the stress and pressure I was feeling to make work was actually making it far harder to think creatively or find any ideas exciting or interesting, which only amplified my distress. I did stay busy though, more out of panic than anything, right up until I got knocked out with Covid for most of December, somehow…
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