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TODAY'S FEATURED POST

Sketchbooks and Human Experience

Vanessa Lemen

One thing I really love about sketchbooks is that they're all about exploring. What’s on the pages doesn’t need to look or feel a certain way. The sketches can be of anything. It doesn't have to be fancy, but requires a human being making some marks on some pages, open to exploring and discovering. It’s completely open in terms of the content and the act of creating. I really enjoy seeing all kinds of different…

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Loosening Up

David Palumbo

March 29, 2023 - Private commission, 20x28 inches, oil on panel, 2016 When I was a student, the only way I wanted to paint was tight and polished, which was a bit at odds with my mostly painterly instructors. I was all rounds and filberts and mops. All painting from the fingertips (as oppose to the shoulder) with teeny tiny brushes. As I was tightening up my skills, however, I started finding myself more and more drawn to N.C. Wyeth and Leyendecker and Mead Schaeffer. For me, I think a big part of the render compulsion was to know that I could do it. As I became more confident in that, however, the process also became more tedious and constricting. In 2008, I started a series of 5x7 inch figure studies. The idea was to paint a half dozen…

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