The Messy Palette
Steven WeinbergPaintings, comics, books and everything in between.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 90 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 6 days ago |
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Congrats 2026 Spruceton Inn Artist Residents!
Quickly — If you’re in Philly this weekend please pop by the books and magazine shop Another Corner, Sunday 2-5 PM! I’ll be doing a walk-in fish painting workshop, signing THE FLY FISHING BOOK: AN ARTFUL GUIDE TO ANGLING, cheersing West Kil...
Please paint with me in Philadelphia
I’ve gotten to paint in some pretty outrageous places in the past twelve months. Fishing lodges in Iceland and Idaho, an art museum in Texas, bookstores like Books Are Magic, Sullaluna, Blue Willow, and Rough Draft… even a painting workshop...
The Roadless Rule and The Society of Illustrators
Hi! A quick heads up: You should probably shrug off summer ending by staying up at The Spruceton Inn this weekend or next. Why?
- The Catskills secretly-not-so-secretly look the best in September. (A few red trees already. Tons of golde...
End Your Summer Painting On A Beach
I highly recommend ending your summer painting on a beach.
Sand will fill your sketchbook’s spine.
A dog will dry off next to you, speckling your page again and again.
Salt will crystalize.
The ocean will go from blue to green to tan an...
Be a Spruceton Inn Artist Resident! Apply by THIS Friday
It’s that time of the year again!
Every August and I open our low-lift, totally free applications for the Spruceton Inn Artist Residency online. Then we spend the rest of the month living and breathing the 500+ applications, doing the nea...
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I make kids’ books, paint mountains, fish and all over walls. I’m also half of the team behind The Spruceton Inn: a Catskills Bed and Bar (and artist residency!)
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