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The 52 Weeks Project presents…RECURSIVE

Posted by Greg Ruth | Friday, November 1st, 2019

re·cur·sive /rəˈkərsiv/ adjective characterized by recurrence or repetition....

Ask a Greg #1

Posted by Greg Ruth | Friday, October 4th, 2019

From Erik Rose (via FB) How did you go about switching styles as an already...

FEAR of a White Canvas

Posted by Greg Ruth | Friday, September 6th, 2019

So let’s all be perfectly honest, and straight forward. This is a safe place after all,...

The 52 Weeks Project presents… SONGS OF ICE & FIRE

Posted by Greg Ruth | Friday, August 9th, 2019

This is a spoiler-free post, so if you’ve not seen the show’s finale, don’t...

THE WORK

Posted by Greg Ruth | Friday, July 12th, 2019

Materials don’t matter. Techniques, learned tricks what paper or canvas or paint one uses...

Sing Your Best Song

Posted by Greg Ruth | Thursday, June 13th, 2019

Artists are, I would say requisitely so, filled with doubts every day they work. We get it from...

Bobbing for Apples with Friends

Posted by Greg Ruth | Friday, May 17th, 2019

It’s a natural thing as a first instinct that goes back to when we were little kids: You see...

YOU’RE A FRAUD

Posted by Greg Ruth | Friday, April 19th, 2019

Clickbait aside… That’s what you think, isn’t it? It’s what I think, and...

JOY and PLAY at WORK

Posted by Greg Ruth | Friday, March 22nd, 2019

This is one of those articles about living and working as an artist that both seems simultaneously...

A TWIN PEAKS INTERPRETATION

Posted by Greg Ruth | Friday, February 22nd, 2019

It should be obvious by now I am a lover of film and tv narrative and screamingly so that I am an...

Two Wolves

Posted by Greg Ruth | Friday, January 25th, 2019

There’s really two major wolves on the field here. Your own self sense of worth and value,...

MEADOWLARK Diary 1: First Steps

Posted by Greg Ruth | Friday, December 28th, 2018

INDEH came to me fully realized and dragging along behind it a metric ton of source material and...

The Myth of TALENT

Posted by Greg Ruth | Friday, November 30th, 2018

TALENT is the most misused word in the language we all swim in as artists. More often than not it...

The Summer of George

Posted by Greg Ruth | Friday, November 2nd, 2018

So way back when I was young and full of whatever the young are full of, (snips and snails from my...

What Awards Mean, Really

Posted by Greg Ruth | Friday, October 5th, 2018

The merit of Awards is a terrifically fraught and controversial subject, which I still find weird...

Arthur Carnrick on How Craving Attention Makes You Less CreativeExcellent lecture!
Doruk on An American Painter in ParisOlivier Vatine and Claire Wendling immediately come to my mind. I think Didier Cassegrain and Enki Bilal are two others I can think of. There is one m…
Cahú on The Rest of the IcebergThis text was unexpectedly right in the feels
anon on Keith Haring, Once Upon A TimeThank you for posting this. Thank you so much. Like you I am a queer person and a recovering alcoholic (in fact, it's eight years today). Being faced…
Nobody on The Rest of the IcebergI've toyed with the idea of making a website/index of Illustrators. To do the artists any justice would require a mountain of effort. Like most things…

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