TODAY'S FEATURED POST
Sheilah Beckett and the 12 Days of Xmas
Happy Holidays everyone! I hope you all got the art supplies you wanted and all the positive feedback from ADs you hoped for! While we sleep off the food comas, here's a little holiday treat, in the form of my favorite holiday (and lesser-known) illustrator, Sheilah Beckett. [caption id="attachment_79113" align="aligncenter" width="1223"] Most of the 12 days of Christmas in one spread[/caption] I have a 3 year old nephew and this is the first holiday season…
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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“The Vanishing” photo ref
Thursday, November 18, 2010
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Weird Wizard of Oz
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
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The Most Mind-Blowing Images I Have Seen in My Life: Part I
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
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Closer Than Expected
Sunday, November 14, 2010
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Ooops, ran out of room
Friday, November 12, 2010
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Some Process
Friday, November 12, 2010
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