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TODAY'S FEATURED POST

A Hippo Hero

Justin Gerard

Like many of you out there in the art community, I've been a bit down lately about the state of things in the art world. What with Adobe Photoshop updating its Terms of Service, to allow it to harvest our artwork for its AI, or with Windows updating its Terms of Service to harvest our artwork for its AI, or DeviantArt updating its terms of service to harvest our work for its AI, or Meta…

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YESTERDAY’S POST

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Painting with Gold Leaf

Greg Ruth

June 7, 2024 - I don't really have a better word for it yet, and I confess the name is truly wrong for both disciplines... but together they make a kind of sense. I began fiddling with leafing about six months ago, and have continued to revisit it again and again, sometimes in making unique pieces with the leaf, but largely relying upon its natural quality to adorn by utilizing it to embellish special edition prints for DUNE, THE LAST OF US, etc... there's a remarkable beauty to this kind of adornment on existing color work and it certainly fits in with my own preordained love of for flat cutout outs and negative spaces set against really rendered practical art. I am by no means a professionally schooled person when it comes to gold-leafing. OR sumi-e work for that…

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