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TODAY'S FEATURED POST

Floaty Compositional Bits

Rovina Cai

A more clickbait title for this post would be “the ONE TRICK artists use to make things look more polished!”. Luckily, I’m not here to write clickbait, but this post actually is about a trick I use to give my illustrations the finishing touch, so let me introduce you to the concept of... "floaty compositional bits"! Essentially, these are abstract graphical elements added to an image to create visual interest or noise. If an image…

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Bloom

Vanessa Lemen

May 25, 2023 - I'm excited to share that the opening for my solo exhibition “Bloom” is coming up on June 10th in a couple weeks. I’m currently finishing up, packing and shipping these new paintings out to Ryan Joseph Gallery in Denver, CO. The exhibition will run through July 12. I’m really looking forward to sharing these new paintings and wanted to share a sneak peek at a few paintings in their WIP states here before the show. The process of these new works has been a fulfilling voyage, explorative, with the subjectmatter ranging from metaphorical interpretations of a conglomeration of emotional states to humanity as it applies to my observations and the working through of experiences and thoughts. The show is called “Bloom” with the intention that these paintings would be materializing to do just that –…

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