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1. IMC 09 - Day 5

This is going way too quickly!

Today there were more terrific lectures - one by Jon Foster (who is witty and clever in addition to being wicked-talented. Some of those paint strokes on pieces projected up on the wall practically brought tears to my eyes).

When not eating or listening/looking at awesome art, the studios are a flurry of furious painting activity. Companionable conversation, comparing notes, and pizza runs at midnight. There are a lot of fabulous looking pieces coming into being.

(For instance, this one, by Bobby Brown).

The faculty continues to critique, sometimes actually demonstrating on your piece. Scott Fischer and Greg Manchess tag-team critique a great deal (hilarity many times ensues). I cracked up watching them paint 'in stereo' on this particular piece.

As for mine, I got all my basic color in and have started resolving those there monkeys!

Only one more day to paint. :-(

11 Comments on IMC 09 - Day 5, last added: 6/21/2009
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2. Sidebar Nation


Have you ever stumbled on something really cool and you can't believe you had never heard of it before? Something that seems tailored made for your interests? Sidebar Nation is like that for me.
Sidebar Nation is a website podcast all about art and comic books . It's two friends living in Atlanta Georgia, Swain hunt and Dwight Clark who share a love of this stuff and both have amazing taste. I had a short correspondence with Swain and he seemed like the nicest guy on the planet.
The best thing about Sidebar is the interviews they've had Jon Foster , Stephan Martiniere , James Jean and many more. These guys are amazing interviewers, they ask the exact questions you want to hear asked even if you didn't know you wanted hear it. And the site is lots of fun.

4 Comments on Sidebar Nation, last added: 8/25/2008
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3. Grim And Gritty Or Charming, How Do You Like Your Book Covers?


Over at Tor.com i started a thread on the community section of the site. It's a really interesting discussion on what you want in your book cover art. I know that Irene Gallo has had a peek at it(thanks Tara!) as she posted a link to it from her blog(www.igallo.blogspot.com) so this is a nice forum to speak to book art issues with the best people in the field.
Go to www.tor.com and click on "community" and find conversations and you'll find the conversation going on there. Or, simply click on this posts title.
The above image is by one of my favorites, Jon Foster.

2 Comments on Grim And Gritty Or Charming, How Do You Like Your Book Covers?, last added: 8/16/2008
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