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Painting She-Hulk & Elektra


Dan dos Santos

Here's a few quick timelapses of some of my oil painting process for my recent Marvel masterpieces series. Firstly, here's 'She-Hulk'. This image is 12x16 inches on oil primed linen, which I used quite often on this series of paintings. Something about the surface of the linen prevented me from getting unnecessarily detailed on these paintings, which was imperative since I only had 3 days to complete them.   Next up, Here's Elektra. I went…

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Drain vs. Delight


Lauren Panepinto

March 21, 2024 - I have been spending the last 4 or 5 Fridays in a row catching up on my portfolio review backlog, and it means I've been having the same 3 conversations over and over again. Believe it or not, I really only have minor variations on roughly 3 conversations. And they're kind of sorted by experience level. (The list should probably be a series of posts here. Maybe it will be.) For now, I'm going to talk about the most frequent conversation I had come up in portfolio reviews this year so far. It's a problem of success, to a degree, but it can hit folks at any level of experience who have a job where you get paid to make art. They way the topic comes up varies: —When can I find time to work…

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