TODAY'S FEATURED POST
Palencar at the Butler
If you're traveling in the midwest this summer, later this month Muddy Colors own John Jude Palencar will have a major show at the prestigious Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio. From the museum: "John Jude Palencar is the first winner of the Butler's top Midyear prize of a one-person exhibition. Palencar is an American illustrator and fine artist, renowned for his captivating works in the realms of fantasy, science fiction, and horror.…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Painting with Gold Leaf
June 7, 2024 - I don't really have a better word for it yet, and I confess the name is truly wrong for both disciplines... but together they make a kind of sense. I began fiddling with leafing about six months ago, and have continued to revisit it again and again, sometimes in making unique pieces with the leaf, but largely relying upon its natural quality to adorn by utilizing it to embellish special edition prints for DUNE, THE LAST OF US, etc... there's a remarkable beauty to this kind of adornment on existing color work and it certainly fits in with my own preordained love of for flat cutout outs and negative spaces set against really rendered practical art. I am by no means a professionally schooled person when it comes to gold-leafing. OR sumi-e work for that…
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