Russ's Art Blog
Of Caves and Alien Worlds
I think exploring caves gives you a chance to see an entirely different environment from what you are used to.
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Infecting the frame around the art
I decided, since I had a few old frames left over from another project, that the best thing to do would be to destroy the ever-loving hell out of one of them.
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New Art: My first acrylic – no giggling
Sometimes, I shudder to post new ideas or new techniques that I try. I never know if they really work out, if they are ok but just need work, or if they are so awful that the sun will shrivel up and we’ll all die. But, I also think that Read more…
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Seeing it in real life: Church’s The Icebergs
Awhile back (and by “awhile back” I mean “over a year ago”) I wrote an art blog of Frederic Edwin Church’s beautiful painting called The Icebergs (check out the blog here… I”ll wait.) I won’t bore you with the specs again (I’ll be boring you with other ways now), but Read more…
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Another new one: A Violent Reaction
So, I decided to put all that anger and frustration into my artwork, and see if I can’t work out some issues.
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Hold on to your hats! A new art piece (finally)
My goal is to have a new one each month, and I’m just squeaking this one in under the wire.
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Sketching every day
I’ve made a conscious effort to sketch every day, even if it’s something small, in the last two weeks.
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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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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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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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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 Read more…
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Music and the artist Part 1: Soundtracks
An interesting discussion came up today (both online and in real life) about what music drives our particular passions. I decided to go through my iTunes library and really see which tracks influence my art, or at least which tracks really drive me in certain directions with the type and Read more…
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A new art promo for my art for Brian Keene’s Scratch
Having done the artwork for the book, I decided to do a promotional “layer-by-layer” video for YouTube.
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A YouTube promo for my art
I’m working on a Flash book trailer for a client (you’ll see soon enough, it’s not a small client), and for testing with converting Flash animation to video I decided to create a promo for my own art. After a number of unique issues (I’m looking at you, Kaspersky), I Read more…
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New Piece: Asylum Days
While I was helping my daughter with my homework, I decided to work out some Monday sort of frustrations with new artwork. I don’t think it turned out too bad actually. I call it, “Asylum Days”.
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New wallpapers for Scratch
I created a few computer desktop/wallpapers from the art that I did for Brian Keene’s Scratch. Here they are below: Download here Download here Download here