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Prison Blog

In which Possum recounts his experiences as an offender in the system.

Possum Bones is autistic. He has identified as a dirty kid in the past, and he’s attended multiple rainbow gatherings. He has several years left to serve in the Washington Correctional system.

He has been making art since he could sit up. He communicates better in writing than speech. If you are interested in the experience of an autistic person doing prison time, check out his Prison Blog. If you are a fan of comic art, underground/outsider music, Lovecraft, Clarke Ashton Smith, Murakami, Cixui Liu, etc.

It's called Modern Realism

There's a 20th century art style I associate with opaque watercolor ( gouache, I think in america opaque watercolor might be the more common term for the previous century ) ... in illustrative and commercial art mainly ... I want some kind of compilation of these kinds of pieces. For an example, look at the cover of the "Its a Wonderful Life " movie. Now, considering the art style not the content. This what you see on movie posters and in advertisements, and book covers for pulp novels. You hopefully know the style I mean now. The colors are slightly muted, and there's bright " satin" highlights. I'm interested in what media might be most commonly used to produce this and also I'd want to see more of it. Another example would be the movie poster for " Bus Stop ".

Elisa Carlson