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Studio Safety, Part 1 : Ventilation

Justin Gerard

In this article we are going to cover proper studio ventilation for the artist, with a focus on dealing with solvents. We will cover the various options for setting up a studio, and a few options you can use if no ventilation is possible. Almost all illustrators working in oil use solvents. They are used for a wide variety of tasks: mixing, thinning, dissolving and cleaning paint as well as for making mediums, varnishes and…

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Wax Pastel and Watercolor

Winona Nelson

October 20, 2025 - I've been doing a lot of experimentation with watercolor and combining it with other materials, after finding that I love the wildness and difficulty watercolor brings. It's invigorating working in a medium that hits a point at which trying to finesse it will spoil the beauty. But sometimes I want a little more control over details. I used resist crayon in the background of my previous cover for a Cut Flowers chapter. Now that Chapter 3 is underway and I knew the cover would prominently feature a particular album cover from the story, I wanted to paint the album cover in question ahead of doing the final composition. And I felt that a similar resist effect would be amazing done in color instead of clear wax. I wanted the flowers to have a lot of…

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