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Original Art Expo 2025 recap

David Palumbo

[caption id="attachment_79474" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Bill Cox showing off one of the pieces in the live auction[/caption] Last weekend, the second Original Art Expo took place in Orlando Florida. I was attending as a guest artist and, while it’s always difficult to capture any event from behind a table, I thought I’d share a short re-cap and review. To begin, this show is fairly new and still largely under the radar.  It was started by Kasra…

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Garden Birds

Jesper Ejsing

January 6, 2025 - I am starting a new project: Garden Birds.  Its a fully illustrated book about the 50 most common birds in the garden in Scandinavia. There is a lot of those books out there, but whats different with this one is that its not a field guide its more an inspirational book that shows all the interesting little behaviors and details about birds that most people know.  In order for me to capture all these details I have started sketching in on each species. I started with Wrens; my favorite bird. And moved on to Robin. This week I am doing house sparrow and sparrow hawk. The plan is to sketch and discover my way through all of the 50 birds, combine it with field studies and photos of ordinary birds doing ordinary bird things. After…

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