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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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Inspiration from Times Past

Kristine Poole

October 23, 2025 - Colin and I work most days of the week, most weeks of the year. Neither of us have ever been particularly inclined to have regularly scheduled days off. We love what we do and mostly, we worry about not having enough time to create all the things we want to make before our time here is done. But, when we do take time off, we do some serious playing. We will travel for 4 - 6 weeks, often planning our vacation time around specific artists whose work we want to study or museums we want to visit. Nothing compares to actually spending time with artworks in person, in your own time - it is the best education. And, we get to see all the gems that we never find in the art history books. I…

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