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TODAY'S FEATURED POST

Concepting with Dan dos Santos

Muddy Colors

"Where do you get your ideas?" is one of the most asked, and often one of the most difficult questions for an artist to answer. In this live demonstration, Award-Winning Book Cover Artist, Dan dos Santos, attempts to explain his abstract thought process and show you how you too can come up with new and innovative solutions to your pictorial problems. Using entirely audience suggestions to invent an imaginary novel on the spot, watch as…

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EVERYDAY ORIGINAL

Study for Horse 4

YESTERDAY’S POST

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Circe let me look into the future

Howard Lyon

January 1, 2021 - Here we are at the start of a new year! 2020 was... interesting. I won't try to capture everything that transpired because words just aren't enough. I have memories from this year that I will treasure and events that I will mourn. I know that is true for so many of you. I will say that once I got past the strange aura of the lockdown that started in March, my work habits started to get a little healthier than before (it took me a couple of months to get there). I have taken more time to do personal work and also started sculpting, baking more bread (something that has been a hobby long before the pandemic, though I have loved seeing so many people give it a try this year) and I even started…

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