Local artists seeing red after finding stolen copies of work online

AUSTIN (KXAN) — For painter Robert Hurst, each brush stroke is like a sentence.
“I try to tell a story with it,” he said of his work. “You really have to feel the love of whatever it is that you’re trying to create and what you’re trying to do and what you’re trying to portray.”
The saying goes, “Art imitates life,” but local artists found websites selling imitations of their work. Paintings turned into prints for pr