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Restoration Angel Painting Process
Here's the full image of my Magic card illustration "Restoration Angel" for Innistrad Remastered, art directed by Jameela Wahlgren. It's 11 x 14 inches and done completely in acrylic, on a cradled Blick gessoboard (which I love for the smooth surface, compared to Ampersand's pebbly gessoboard). I took phone photos of this piece as I went, and I've combined them here to create a time lapse of the process. It was done mostly in a…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Jamie Windsor on Working Through Low Periods
December 4, 2024 - Just over a year ago, I wrote a piece on acknowledging when things are bad and moving forward through it. At that time, I was in the middle of a challenging stretch where clients had gone silent and I was finding it very difficult to find meaning and motivation in my work. Because I was still in the middle of it, I had a limited perspective on the situation. Having (thankfully) emerged from that place, I can see how the stress and pressure I was feeling to make work was actually making it far harder to think creatively or find any ideas exciting or interesting, which only amplified my distress. I did stay busy though, more out of panic than anything, right up until I got knocked out with Covid for most of December, somehow…
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