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My thoughts on the coming year
But I think this new year brings a different feeling, one I haven’t felt in a long time: hope.
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My first con art show and “guesthood”
Today I’m leaving for VisionCon, and my first shot at being a guest.
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VisionCon and the things I’m bringing
I’ll probably at least bring business cards and mini-cards, but talking online today with Cullen Bunn I also considered “monster cards’.
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Russ’ Art Blog: The Dream of Ossian
Thanks to the holiday season, I haven’t really been able to do much at all, let alone an art blog.
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New art: Mama Ain’t Happy
Based on a fun story called, “If Mama Ain’t Happy”, here is a new piece of art
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Russ’ Art Blog: The Young Lady with the Shiner
One of the nice things about being in an art museum is the chance to take in a surprise painting, one that you didn’t expect to see.
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New artwork: night of the innocents
This one I call “the night of the innocents”, and there’s a better close-up at the end.
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Sketchy McSketch Sketch: November and Moleskines
For those not in the parlance, a Moleskine is a particular kind of small journal, in my case the “storyboard” version.
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Russ’ Art Blog: The Apotheosis of War
Vereshchagin etched the phrase, “Dedicated to all great conquerors, past, present and future” into the frame of the work
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Hey imagine that: New art by me!
I’ve been trying to get back into art as strongly as I can, especially with my being a guest at VisionCon in January. It’s been tough, between family life, day job, being out of town for said job, and so on. But I managed to squeeze in some time this afternoon, and I created an image that’s been stuck in my head for a very long time. When I was in college, I had a Read more…
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Russ’ Art Blog: The Wadsworth Atheneum
I don’t often get to art museums, so I make the most of it when a chance comes up (save for the Denver Art Museum, which is only an hour away). I think, though books and the web can certainly show you art you’ve never seen before, that being in the museum in person gives you such a different view of things. In this case, on the aforementioned trip to Hartford, Connecticut, I was lucky Read more…
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The big trip: Hartford and New York City
Here is a quick rundown of the trip, with a handful of images and observations that I have.
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Russ’ Art Blog: Found Drowned
Continuing on my art posts of really happy, joyous images (reference: sarcasm), here is Vasily Perov’s Found Drowned (1867, Oil on canvas, 27″ x 42″). I’ve had a bookmark for it for awhile, and I think it’s an interesting piece. I think it’s one of those pieces that has a story behind it, but still lets the viewer decide on their own what they think. It’s obviously not a happy piece, but it also comes Read more…
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Sketchy McSketch Sketch: Sept/Oct
After the accident (there’s a thread around here somewhere for that), I’ve had a hard time getting my head back into art. To help get that moving again, I’m returning to posting some of the sketches I’ve been working on. As always, they vary quite wildly, even on the same page. They range from sketches based on objects, to cartoons, to horror. Without further adieu, here are some sketches I was working on of a Read more…
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Halloween: Colonel America
After talking about it for the last couple of years, my son finally committed to being Colonel America for Halloween.
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Russ’ Art Blog: The Last Muster
Sir Hubert von Herkomer’s The Last Muster, a great example of realism and an almost illustrative idea
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New Artwork: Deathly Reflection
I think as an artist, when you hit one of those blocks, you just need to let it go and start creating.
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More Fun With Photoshop: Scratches
I decided to write a quick blog on how I would approach a problem in Photoshop. In this case, scratches.
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Russ’s Art Blog: A Wolf Had Not Been Seen in Salem for Thirty Years
I’ve been thinking of trying out one of Howard Pyle’s works for some time, but they’re kind of difficult to come by online.
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Zombie squash and learning from nature
There are so many textures, views, styles and all kinds of visuals that an artist can easily spend a lifetime learning just the natural side of art.