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Some Quick Mark-Making in Oil

Vanessa Lemen

  I made a couple new short videos of a little mark-making in oil on this new panel by Artefex. This is their smoothest panel yet, a lead alkyd oil-primed extra-fine cotton canvas mounted to an aluminum panel. It’s such a nice surface to work on. A perfect combination of smoothness, tooth and absorbency for this reductive kind of painting. It’s honestly my new fave. This quick painting was done using oil and spatulas, paint…

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Dear Santa…

Arnie Fenner

December 4, 2023 - Since Christmas is right around the corner, I thought, hey, why not make a few gift suggestions for when you're sitting on Santa's knee? Peter de Sève's second collection, Local Fauna, is as fat, sassy, and gorgeous as was his first (A Sketchy Past, 2009). Featuring a wide selection of film designs, published works, previously unpublished paintings, sketches, and comps it is capped with a rollicking give-and-take interview with Peter conducted by the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson. This is the book you'll want to both get and give (and, psst, signed copies are available from Stuart Ng). Speaking of Calvin and Hobbes, Andrews McMeel has started to republish newly designed affordable 2-volume boxed collections of the beloved strip with the first, The Calvin and Hobbes Portable Compendium Set 1, appearing recently. As fresh…

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