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Report from IlluXcon 2024


Lauren Panepinto

Happy Halloween! Thanks for bearing with me last month when I was on sabbatical and talking about John Singer Sargent's watercolors (because JSS's Venice watercolors are amazing). I got home a few days before New York Comic Con, which is always a hectic time for a SFF publisher based in New York.I didn't have a lot of official duties, but we had a lot of authors come thru and visit the offices, and I tried…

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Justin Coro Kaufman

September 19, 2024 - Dug a little deeper into the high key overexposed painting thing again this week. I’ve been wanting to do a portrait of  Kevin, our other mastiff for a little while now. He’s such a sweet old boy. Had it in my head to do like a “night lighting” portrait of him. He’s blind, and his eyes have that cloudy look to them that i think could look cool in that lighting scenario. But then a couple days ago,  I snapped a blown out photo of him sleeping, and was drawn to the abstract vignetted quality of it, so I decided to give it a shot. Here's where we're at so far. Gridded this out because I really wanted to make sure I got the shapes as close to the reference as I could. There's so…

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