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Sketch Survivor Island

Allen Williams

I’d like to try something a little different this August on Muddy Colors and engage you in my process in a more direct way. Below, you’ll find a full page of sketches pulled straight from one of my sketchbooks. Each individual sketch is numbered so you can reference it. What I would like you to do is take a moment, look through these eight sketches, and choose the number of the one that speaks to…

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Grace O’Malley, Pirate Queen

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ASK A GREG 2

Greg Ruth

July 4, 2025 - So,  for those of you unaware, this is the second round of Q&A's collected by asking the public on social media to submit questions- any question at all related to art and artmaking as a career or a simple hobby,  I have plucked a few that seemed helpful to you here reading this. I do a lot of interviews but most of them are really specific to the project they are there to promote or the same usual sort of boilerplate questions I get in them overall. This series has been an interesting place to explore questions I don't usually get or rather get to field and answer publicly the way I often get to in person at a class, a media tour or an open studio event. Each is from a raft of inquiries…

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