Author: Shel Kahn
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Derwent Drawing Pencils swatches
Twenty four colours including white, so, the 23 larger more uniform swatches at the top are the full line of pencil crayons. the rest of the swatches are me tearing blending and mixing, erasing, or making up miniature Zorn pallets of black, red, yellow and white, using different reds and yellows. it’s a very limited…
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playing around with a beautiful limited palette
these are the Derwent Drawing line of pencil crayons, and I’m having a lot of fun with them in my cheap MUJI sketchbooks!
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Feeds vs Blogs Thoughts
so when I reformatted my website, one of the things that I wanted to do was make it possible to post casually to this, with a similar energy to how I used to post on social media. you know, with the hope of getting myself free from social media and not simply just falling back…
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Announcing Disney Villains Cursed Café!
After nearly three years of work, I’m really proud to announce the release of Bloom Digital‘s newest game, Disney Villains Cursed Café. I art directed this game, and I’m so excited to get to share the results of all our hard work! You’ve probably heard me talk about Bloom before – we’re an indie game…
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Sketchbook Crystal Island WIP
Just playing around between work and comics and life. Neocolor iis and watercolours!
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one year of arm stuff – part 12 –ambidexterity – writing
For six months I had no nerve connection whatsoever to my lower right radial nerve. This meant that all of the muscles it powered were completely switched off, paralyzed, leaving me unable to uncurl my fingers, lift my wrist, tilt my wrist, or open my thumb, and leaving me much weaker at gripping, rotating my…
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Oil Pastel Castle Ruins
After a few weeks away it was great to get home to the oil pastels! I painted this one on canson mi-teintes paper, with sennelier oil pastels, and was reminded that when used on paper, even the greasiest oil pastels do set somewhat! Between days, the pastels set up enough it wasn’t blendable with my…
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one year of arm stuff – part 11 –left hand life
When all this was ramping up, I tried to do a lot of research into what tools I would need to navigate the world with my left hand, and there were two things flooding my search results: things for parents to buy for their left-handed kindergarteners, and mensa nerds looking to minmax their IQ by…