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“Eye of the Beholder”


Justin Gerard

Last month I shared some development work for a new illustration I have been working on called, "Eye of the Beholder."  I finished working on the image recently and today I'd like to share a few images from the process and talk through some of my approach to painting this one. Hopefully it will be of some use to you as you seek to avoid landmines, pitfalls, headaches, and accidently opening a gateway that lets…

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The 52 Weeks Project presents: PAINTING with GOLD LEAF


Greg Ruth

April 12, 2024 - It's oxymoronic as hell, but that's actually what I'm trying to do. As many of you know I started to play around with gold leaf largely to make special prints and other existing work I have around, mostly specializing film posters etc... this mostly really exploded as an interest for me when I started applying it to my prints from Sony/NaughtyDog/Playstation's THE LAST of US prints. I need to let it be know here out of respect to people who actually know wheat they're doing with gilding, that I an untrained goonberry does not. Like the sumi ink I just got the material and started to see what it could do from a place of utter ignorance. There's a lot of freedom in untrained mediums like this- sure it breeds failure and error, but there's…

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