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SEVERANCE S1 LP Soundtrack


Greg Ruth

*SPOILER WARNING: If you're not familiar with or have seen the first season of Severance, please fix that first. While this article is primarily about the process around the 2-set LP we did for MONDO/Death Waltz Records, I'm not going to hold back on worrying about spoilers. So this is your only warning. Essentially, stop, go right now and watch the first season toot sweet. As design and illustration jobs go there to date hasn't…

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Three Manual Transfer Methods


Winona Nelson

December 15, 2025 - I'm doing a small painting for a dear friend, and it occurred to me that this is a great opportunity to do a triple demo showing different transfer techniques. Once you have a drawing ready, or in this case a photo reference, there are many ways of getting that drawing onto a surface. I'll be demonstrating 3 - gridding, graphite transfer, and oil transfer. I call these manual since all of them involve drawing the lines by hand rather than mounting or directly transferring a print to a surface, though each has a different medium. Gridding is just what it sounds like - you can either create a grid on your surface using a ruler, or what I do: Divide your surface into quarters, then quarter each of those quarters. Fold the print half first…

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