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TODAY'S FEATURED POST

GHOSTS!

Greg Ruth

Of all the seasonal and year long creatures to be spooked by, for me personally since I was very young and menaced one night by a deranged and nightgown-barefooted granny on our dark neighborhood street, it's always been about the ghosts for me. I'll digest anything on the subject, and have lived 5 years in a certifiably haunted old building in Brooklyn... all of these cornerstones happily in the past. I still adore them as…

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EVERYDAY ORIGINAL

Tree Shade

YESTERDAY’S POST

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Salvation

Donato Giancola

October 28, 2020 - Salvation is the latest work in my Empathetic Robot series, and finds us back in a urban setting and examining the human condition of hope. As an artist who works best under deadlines, this project proved no different. By mid-August I decided I wanted to showcase a new painting for the up coming Lightbox Expo Online to be held in the beginning of September.  This provided me less than a months time to finalize the concept, gather my references, and execute the work to finish.  Not too difficult a problem as a typical deadline, except that I had two Magic cards and a book cover all due that same week in September! Years of time management kicked in, parsing out my time with sketches, efficiency in preliminary drawing information, and staggering the work load so…

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  • Marion on GHOSTS!Well, consider me spooked ... I love the softness in your drawings, they have that ethereal quality to them !
  • Libardo bohorquez on GHOSTS!Hello Muddy Colors I love the site and find it very inspirational and educative, keep up with the great content ps: please do a Paul Bo…
  • anon on The Goal FolderHi there The first time i did this it was so hard to chose which images to keep and which to get rid off. Lately, it feels as if my art…
  • elizabeth Leggett on GHOSTS!Your work always pricks up my Muse's ears, if that makes sense. I look forward to your posts so very much.
  • Aurore Folny on Gnats vs. Chimps: A Guide to Community, Part 1This article came at the right time in my life, thank you for this! Muddy Colors and his artists are one of my chimps, and I always com…
  • Denis Pol on Some advice for getting the most out of Art SchoolInterestingly you wrote. To get a good result from something, it is important to love what you do. I admire you for loving your student…
  • Greg on GHOSTS!Thx for the repost and trackback!

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