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The Argonath

Donato Giancola

Last year I was approached by an art collector, Luca Schroeder, to see if I was interested in pursuing a new commission along the theme of The Argonath, a rendering of the Fellowship as they pass beneath two large statues flanking the River Anduin from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Given that I had not yet illustrated this moment from the novels, I was more than happy to explore and see what kind…

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Failing is the Only Way to Succeed

Greg Ruth

March 14, 2025 - I would say working in the arts, any arts really, carries a unique lesson in life in forcing us as the artists to wrestle with and engage actively with screwing up as a value. It's a true dynamic that's everywhere of course, but for us in art, and yes I am tooting our own horns here, we are engaged in a creative enterprise that not just requires we engage with failure, but that failure is an obvious and front-facing requisite of our growth as artists. It's where discovery lies, it's where our evolution in our process, whether its technical inventive or personal, flowers. It may be a series of successes that make our careers, but its the failures that lead to those successes that make us good at our art. And sometimes things fail for…

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