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Artist Insights: Meg Buick

Meg Buick is a painter and printmaker based in East Lothian, Scotland. Her work, often depicting hazy landscapes and obscured figures, evokes a sense of ancientness and dreamlike solitude. In this article, Meg discusses how she employs a wide range of mediums, including egg tempera, monotype, oils, and pastels, as well as describing her constant reworking of these materials to evoke the ethereal atmospheres found in her work. Drawing inspiration from art history that spans prehistoric cave paintings, the Renaissance, and modern abstraction, Meg presents us with a sense of symbolic memory, where humans and animals merge quietly into her shrouded landscapes. Artist Insights: Meg Buick Contents 0:00 “People often say the work feels ancient” 0:20 “It feels natural to me to keep covering it, and destroying it someway, and bringing it back” 0:51 Introduction 1:06 “I wanted to really learn a practice and learn how to make physical things” 2:00 “I always had drawing on the back burner” 2:47 “A human figure has such a psychological pull for any viewer” 4:04 “It’s more of a landscape than a portrait essentially” 4:20 “I think I’ve always been quite intuitive about materials” 4:38 “Egg Tempera forces you to …

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Clouds rendering : this slider change everything

Rudy Michau writes: Dear CG Thinkers, welcome! On today’s menu: roasted GPUs! We’ll dive into how volume rendering works in Cycles and how to push your settings to reveal every bit of detail in your procedural clouds. I’ll take you through how I discov…

Art Through Symbols: The Skull

Skulls may arouse our morbid curiosity – with the knowledge each of us carries one hidden beneath the surface – yet their enduring symbolism extends far beyond anatomy. As memento mori, they remind us that we all meet the same end, but throughout art history, skulls have also embodied power, served as instruments of satire, and even become emblems of beauty. The Art Through Symbols series explores the interpretation of symbols throughout art history – be they cultural, religious, folkloric, or personal. Each article analyses a series of artworks before detailing an art-making tutorial inspired by the symbol for you to try. Art Through Symbols: The Skull Interpreting Skulls “The skulls were there and I could say something with them. To me they are as beautiful as anything I know. To me they are strangely more living than the animals walking around…” – Georgia O’Keeffe When we look at skulls, we are confronted with our own mortality – perhaps welcoming in an existential dread – or giving us the steadying reassurance that, aside from birth, death is the one experience we all share. For artists living through times of crisis, amid plagues, famines …

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7 Benefits of the Rising Cost of Metals to Handmade Jewellers with Anna Campbell and Jessica Rose (podcast episode)

In this episode, Jessica Rose and Anna Campbell explore the unexpected
advantages behind the rising costs of silver and gold. While many jewellers
worry about affordability and holding stock, Jessica and Anna reveal that
these changes can actually strengthen your business and the handmade
jewellery industry as a whole.

When an Arabic City Meets Marble Run

I really like Marble Run videos, and Alan Luk’s latest one adds a neat new design aspect to it!
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Good Things Come in Threes: Painting With a Triad Color Scheme

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Glenn Hernandez: Reflective Mark Making

Glenn Hernandez won a Jackson’s Choice Award in Jackson’s Art Prize this year with his work Aberration. In this interview, he discusses feeling divided between two versions of his life, the importance of spontaneity in his work, and how the political climate in the US impacts his creativity. Above image: The artist in his studio Josephine: Could you tell us about your artistic background? Glenn: I’ve been drawing and painting since I was five years old. My parents always encouraged it. I also love music and singing, in particular I love choral music and opera. I started out as a vocal performance major in college but I couldn’t get beyond my music theory courses so I fell back on studio art as my major. My earliest interests in art were more centered on illustration, especially the work of Golden Age illustrator Arthur Rackham. It wasn’t until I took my first art course in high school that I was exposed to fine art and the work of painters like Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach. Nonetheless, my career as an artist has often been commercial. I’ve been an art director at game and animation studios, I’ve worked as an illustrator …

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Magnetic Fields in Blender – And They Look Beautiful | Detailed Tutorial

3DSinghVFX writes: Hi. Explore how to turn the invisible world of magnetism into beautiful motion graphics using Geometry Nodes in Blender 4.5. In this tutorial, we’ll build a magnetic field visualization from scratch – step by step – while learning th…

Fix the “muddy bake, muddy render” problem—systematically [$]

Model, UV, bake, texture a stylized lantern in Blender + Substance 3D Painter; light and render a game-ready light prop with this new 3D Tudor course. If your props fall apart at UVs or look flat after rendering, this new course gives you a clean, end-…

Put a Pocket on It: An Introduction to Pockets

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Year: 2025