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Artists Sketch the Courtroom Battle

Lance Jackson and Bill Russell draw the Hearst Antitrust Trial

Mar 5 • Bill Russell

Recent posts

Crush and Press at Seghesio

Illustrating how grapes become wine through a wine writer’s view of the process.

Feb 26 • Bill Russell

Rockwell Kent: Greenland Elemental

How Arctic life, landscape and light shaped his art

Feb 19 • Bill Russell

Our Thai Meal - Xāh̄ār thịy k̄hxng reā

Drawing a quiet feast of fragrance and grace in Northern Thailand

Feb 12 • Bill Russell

Honoré Sharrer: Empathetic and Quietly Subversive

How 'Workers and Paintings' and its studies function as visual journalism

Feb 5 • Bill Russell

Molly Lamb: Wartime Diaries

The aspiring war artist captured the contributions of Canadian servicewomen through sketches of camaraderie, boredom, and chaos.

Jan 29 • Bill Russell

Of Cormorants and Shipwrecks

Metaphors in ancient birds, sunken histories, and the pull of nostalgia.

Jan 22 • Bill Russell

David Choe and the Crenshaw Cowboy

How to be an empathetic visual journalist...while painting.

Jan 15 • Bill Russell

My Year in Reportage

Ten favorite stories and sketches from 2025

Jan 7 • Bill Russell

Another Year of Histories of Reportage

Artist‑journalists who stood out and pointed the way forward.

Dec 31, 2025 • Bill Russell

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