A few years ago, it looked like physical art was going the way of analogue film photography. Digital tools were getting better, faster and cheaper, or even free. Painting on an iPad made more sense than lugging canvases around. Learning to draw on a Wacom tablet seemed more practical than buying sketchbooks and charcoal. The future was clearly digital, and anyone still mixing oil paints by hand seemed quaint at best, stubborn at worst.
Except that's not what's happening.
