TODAY'S FEATURED POST
Illustrating Starling House
Today I’m sharing my illustrations for Starling House by Alix E. Harrow! I’ve been a fan of Harrow’s work since illustrating a special edition of The Once and Future Witches a few years ago, so when I saw the announcement that she was writing a gothic novel, I was super excited! I was excited to read it because gothic romance is one of my favourite genres, but as is always the case when you are…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Pop Culture IS Culture
December 20, 2024 - "The best place to learn about a culture, to really uncover what they were about on a daily basis is to dig through its garbage." - Louis Leakey 1966 We're told there's a high wall between the high and the low, between pop culture and real art, and it is a foundational insummitable barrier that can be, only by the grace and choosing of the high end side of this fence, breach it. In illustration for example, breaking all the rules of the medium itself for its own sake, ends up being a bad illustration. However when you do this in "fine art" it's ART. This is a physical fact of each medium that almost entirely is what differentiates one from the other as a fact of how they are and what their goals…
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