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You Don’t Suck At Color

Chris Beatrice

Do you suffer from chromophobia (the fear of using saturated or bright colors because every time you do your picture winds up looking like a cheap effect from Star Trek TOS)? Well, turns out you don't suck at anything, but you probably misunderestimate the role of something else…

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Presenting Sculpture for Publication Competitions

Kristine Poole

December 18, 2025 - Colin and I have had the wonderful opportunity to be on the jury for numerous art contests over the years, including Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, Infected By Art and The Walter S. Baird Prize, along with other local and regional competitions. To be sure, we've looked at a lot of entries in all kinds of subject matters and mediums. To start with, here are some things to keep in mind: every jury is different and everyone has their own predilections and preferences. We all know of a piece that got rejected from one contest only to be an award winner in another. We've all entered an artwork that we thought was one of the best we'd ever done only to have it rejected - we are intimately…

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