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GHOSTS!

Greg Ruth

Of all the seasonal and year long creatures to be spooked by, for me personally since I was very young and menaced one night by a deranged and nightgown-barefooted granny on our dark neighborhood street, it's always been about the ghosts for me. I'll digest anything on the subject, and have lived 5 years in a certifiably haunted old building in Brooklyn... all of these cornerstones happily in the past. I still adore them as…

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Wax Pastel and Watercolor

Winona Nelson

October 20, 2025 - I've been doing a lot of experimentation with watercolor and combining it with other materials, after finding that I love the wildness and difficulty watercolor brings. It's invigorating working in a medium that hits a point at which trying to finesse it will spoil the beauty. But sometimes I want a little more control over details. I used resist crayon in the background of my previous cover for a Cut Flowers chapter. Now that Chapter 3 is underway and I knew the cover would prominently feature a particular album cover from the story, I wanted to paint the album cover in question ahead of doing the final composition. And I felt that a similar resist effect would be amazing done in color instead of clear wax. I wanted the flowers to have a lot of…

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