Illuxcon 3

Illuxcon will take place in eleven days. This event is a gathering/convention dedicated solely to the art of the fantastic—bringing artists, students, collectors, and art fans together for an annual symposium intended to inspire and create further awareness and zeal for the field.As the largest display of original fantastic art in the world, IlluXCon is an entirely unique experience where artists are free to participate in the show just as attendees...

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Hello, my name is Eric

A little background on what I've been up to. I had spent several years slowly working my way through the illustration field. A few years back, I had an opportunity to show my work in the pop-surreal/low brow gallery scene. I took the red pill...or was it the blue pill? I took some pills and jumped in with both feet.My art has been kicking my ass ever since. There's been a lot of experimenting, a lot of mistakes, and a lot of pushing myself to be...

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The Mud of Venus, Part 1

"I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will."- Eugene DelacroixA perfect statement to start off my presence here at Muddy Colors. Delacroix compressed a great deal of art theory into that one sentence, and the most profound for me was that color is all about relativity. What clump of 'mud' you place next to another clump will impact all your color decisions thereafter; cool/warm relationships begin to evolve...

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Syreian the Bonecarver

Hi everybody,Before I get startet I think I need to introduce myself and apologize. The apology is for my bad mouth and poor English skills. I am from Denmark and English is only my second language. I was taught English in school, but mostly I learned it from from hip hop lyrics and old Clint Eastwood movies. So cut me a little slack if I sometimes sound like an aggressive, ignorant fool or an extremely impolite asshole. I assure you I am not an...

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Dan Dos Santos: On the Importance of Being Stupid.

Welcome to day two of the 'Muddy Colors' blog!I still don't know quite how I managed to do it, but I somehow convinced what I consider some of the best Artists in the industry to join me in creating this blog. A blog which guarantees to take their already packed work days and stuff them even fuller with deadlines, tech-savvy shortcomings, and even a little self-doubt. And in return for all their hard work... the risk of public humiliation....

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Welcome from JJP

-By John Jude PalencarI’d like to welcome everyone to the “Muddy Colors” blog. Hopefully this will be a place of informative and enlightening information not only about illustration but the the arts in general. Maybe even a bit of mud slinging will occur! Who knows? Many of us have our feet in both camps - the field of illustration and personal gallery work. An overview of this group indicates a preference for traditional methods for creating paintings....

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Hit the Beach!

It's D-Day.Several weeks ago I received an invitation from Dan Dos Santos to participate in a new blog devoted to fantastic art. He didn't have to ask twice.The subject of fantastic—or "fantasy" or "SF" or "imaginative" or any other descriptive phrase you might want to use—art has always been near and dear to me. I grew up with it; I've created it; I've published it. And increasingly, as the years have passed, I've become more involved with the promotion...

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