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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
Original Art Expo 2025 recap
January 29, 2025 - [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 Ghanbari and Bill Cox, respectively CEO and CCO/cofounder of Comic Art Fans, as a show by and for original art collectors with an emphasis on comic art. Similar to the Illuxcon model, the show is very niche in its approach and puts the focus on gathering art collectors in a relatively intimate venue with a whole bunch of artists. I’d…
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