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INSPIRATION vs PERSPIRATION

Greg Ruth

As artists we always in making our work, dance with two partners, and we are often held to the same regard as most pop cultural ideas of art making, the artist pondering some vital landscape... the artist receiving like a ball of light the revelation of some new piece... When in fact more than 80% of the total experience of making art is sweat and grit and work. It speaks well of the distilled 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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