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I have to admit I liked getting an extra hour of sleep last night. Eastern Standard time began again here in Ohio at 2am last night. I probably would have gotten more sleep, but I am just strange enough to stay up for the time travel feeling of watching the clock on my [...]

I recently ran across Boogle. Which looks like Google’s search but also has a random quote and random artwork displayed when you open up the page. I have no idea who owns www.boogle.com but when you are researching a particular image for your own artwork, Boogle may just give you the inspiring quote [...]

Often we are led to think that art is something that can be defined on paper, canvas, sculpture or digital images. Pens, paint brushes, pencils and paint are only tools that lead us to the final realization of a vision we grasped maybe even long ago. Subsequently artists are generally defined by those [...]

I have to admit that this caught me by surprise. I didn’t expect a submission so soon, but this really phenomenal stuff. Brian Duey from dueysdrawings sent me this. According to his blog Duey says:
“I have been working on this drawing for about the last 2 months. I have tons and tons of hours into [...]

Being someone who dabbled in Airbrushing, Inkwash, and Acrylics in his younger years, I’ve discovered that some of the concepts apply to what I call “Painting with Pastels”.
With Airbrushing, you get used to having to mask off everything that you don’t want painted.
With Inkwash, you begin to understand the actual value of the color [...]