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Inspiration from Times Past

Kristine Poole

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 -…

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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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