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Traditional Art

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This is a community dedicated to showcasing all types of traditional medium art.

Traditional means a physical medium. This includes acrylic, pastel, encaustic, gouache, oil and watercolor paintings; Ink illustrations; Pencil and charcoal sketches; Etchings; Lithographs; Wood prints; pottery; ceramics; metal, Wire and paper sculptures; Tapestry; Weaving; Quilting; Wood carvings, Armor Crafting and more.

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"The Ruby Knight" book cover art by Keith Parkinson. 1990 (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world [M] to c/traditional_art@lemmy.world

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[–] TheRealShadeSlimmy@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Shame the author is a piece of crap, I really like his work as a kid!

https://www.sffchronicles.com/threads/576758/

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[–] bishoponarope@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (1 child)

I learned about this a few years ago and was genuinely devastated. The Belgariad and The Maloreon were childhood favourites. My copies went in the fire after that.

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[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It should be noted you don't need to go burn your Eddings books: Leigh died in 2007, David in 2009 and all proceeds from their estate now go to Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

From the linked thread.

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[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

And Reed is still a good college to support!

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[–] bishoponarope@lemmy.world -2 points 8 months ago

Kind of a subjective matter to make a sweeping statement on imo, but sure.

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