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🔥 Warner Bros is suing Midjourney!🔥

They've cited mine and Gary's work like in the other suit, including that I was banned for criticizing the company.

This now means Midjourney is being sued by Warner Bros, Disney, Universal, and the class action from artists.

Let's gooo! 🔥

A collage featuring a cartoon snake and butterfly, a painted portrait of a man with a mustachio (Bill Murray), and a colourful cartoon character holding sneakers.

If you missed it, this week's cracking featured artists are @zoeranucci.bsky.social, Ian Ball and @primaryhughes.bsky.social ❤️

No driers or mediums involved. I use mostly Williamsburg oil colors. They’re pretty traditional choices. I like a warm and a cool of most colors.

Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 146) 6”x 8” oil on board.

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Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 145) 8”x 6” oil on board. Serenaded by some frogs for a few hours this afternoon.

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Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 144) 8”x 6” oil on board. The wind blowing off the lake was making the trees creak.

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Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 143) 6”x 6” oil on board. Trying a different palette, heavy on the quinacridone magenta today.

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Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 142) 6”x 6” oil on board. After being absolutely frigid last time, today was in the 70s and finally felt like summer.

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Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 141) 8”x 6” oil on board.

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Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 140) 6”x 8” oil on board.

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Lmao

Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 139) 6”x 8” oil on board.

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Appreciate it Marc!

Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 138) 6”x 8” oil on board.

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Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 137) 8”x 6” oil on board.

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Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 136) 8”x 6” oil on board.

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Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 135) ”6 x 6” oil on board.

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Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 134) 6” x 6” oil on board.

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Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 133) 8”x 6” oil on board. Got this one to a decent finish in about 2 hours before the rain put a stop to it.

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Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 132) 6”x 8” oil on board.

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1, also no inner monologue

First plain air painting of the year.
Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 131) 5”x 7” oil on board.

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American Illustration 43 Winner @primaryhughes.bsky.social @primaryhughes

I explore the liminal space between clarity and intrigue beckoning viewers to enter into a narrative unfolding.
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Thursday night figure drawing @nmuart.bsky.social and @nmuillustration.bsky.social

AI giants reject government’s approach to solving copyright row OpenAI and Google have objected to Labour’s proposed opt-out model and pushed for broader exemptions to let AI software use copyrighted material free

1/4 Well look at that. Open Ai and Google outright reject “Opt-Out” models, hell they even reject basic transparency requirements.

AI companies demand they get everything, including our Intellectual Property, for free, and without anyone ever being able to tell the companies no.

Lovely. Are you going to have any new drawings available soon?

Ultra matte medium by liquitex works great. Look up CF Payne’s work. That’s where I first saw it.

Colored pencil first (in this case), then acrylic and matte med (translucent), then colored pencil again. Paint should be dry. If you want to sort of blend/melt the pencils into the paint layer,I would use an oil wash over the acrylic.

Something I did at work this week.

If you see this, quote post your green art 💚💚💚