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  • In his latest Ragdoll Metaphysics column, Jim Rossignol points to both success stories and missed opportunities where letting artists spearhead the game either did bring or should have brought the game closer to art, and calls for a new industry arms race to create the best "watercolour FPS games, painterly RTS games, and oil-painting strategies."

    Boing Boing 2009

  • I'm reminded of Abe Ferrara's infamous film, 'The Driller Killer' - in between brief scenes of the film's anti-hero taking a power tool to the skulls of winos in 1970's New York, Ferrara's film is mostly filler oil-painting, lesbian shower scenes acted by actresses who look fed up and shots of the noisy punk band rehearsing next door..

    Filler Killer Eeleen Lee 2010

  • A large oil-painting of Admiral the Earl St. Vincent hung above the fireplace.

    In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs 2010

  • I'm reminded of Abe Ferrara's infamous film, 'The Driller Killer' - in between brief scenes of the film's anti-hero taking a power tool to the skulls of winos in 1970's New York, Ferrara's film is mostly filler oil-painting, lesbian shower scenes acted by actresses who look fed up and shots of the noisy punk band rehearsing next door..

    Archive 2010-04-01 Eeleen Lee 2010

  • She spends her free time doing rune readings, oil-painting, and searching for a home for her first novel, a farcical fantasy.

    Core on a Cord Megan Arkenberg 2008

  • She spends her free time doing rune readings, oil-painting, and searching for a home for her first novel, a farcical fantasy.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Megan Arkenberg 2008

  • I took oil-painting lessons when I was a kid, and certainly felt encouraged in art both by family and teachers, but I let it go -- electing to pursue a field where there was less family competition -- and now I feel shy about it.

    Art and Prayer Susan Palwick 2007

  • I took oil-painting lessons when I was a kid, and certainly felt encouraged in art both by family and teachers, but I let it go -- electing to pursue a field where there was less family competition -- and now I feel shy about it.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Susan Palwick 2007

  • I took up oil-painting last week and completed ten signs that will make up an interpretive trail at Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Scott Schmidt 2007

  • I may be middle-aged and no oil-painting, but I think you are pushing it a bit.

    I Swear this is True... 2007

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