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Painting Process Breakdown

Robert Hunt

This month I thought I would share a little painting process. This is a painting of Arctic Explorer Frank Worsley* that I did as preliminary work as part of a project I'm working on. I start by doing a very loose sketch to lay out the composition I do the same to rough in the position of the facial features I start adding some transitional passing values and modulate the colors in the drawing. most…

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“Barn Swallow” by Leah Mitchell

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GHOSTS!

Greg Ruth

October 24, 2025 - Of all the seasonal and year long creatures to be spooked by, for me personally since I was very young and menaced one night by a deranged and nightgown-barefooted granny on our dark neighborhood street, it's always been about the ghosts for me. I'll digest anything on the subject, and have lived 5 years in a certifiably haunted old building in Brooklyn... all of these cornerstones happily in the past. I still adore them as things go... there's such a strong response, almost visceral lizard-brained one to something so gossamer. Even today I still live in a big old victorian house that by all rights should be haunted, but if it is, they seem to be cool with us or at least work opposing shifts. Regardless the result is an obvious Victorian flavor to all…

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