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Feeling Gray Today

Howard Lyon

-By Howard Lyon   Color is a fascinating and challenging part of painting.  It can be defined as hue, saturation and value. Today, I am going to focus a little more on saturation. Saturation being how intense or gray a color is. Before I get going though, I think I need to add a disclaimer to this post. Painting from life is the best way to understand color. Also, photographs of paintings are by no…

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Horns of the high desert (Original Watercolor)

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New Frazetta Book

Arnie Fenner

May 19, 2025 - Over the years Ian & Betty Ballantine produced 5 books with their Peacock Press, Cathy & I created 4 with Underwood Books, and Dian Hanson most recently put together her gigantic collection for Taschen—and that's mentioning only a few. Others have published (and continue to publish) books devoted to Frank Frazetta's art, some good, some bad, some authorized, and some not.  At this point you might think that there's nothing new to be seen or said about Frank and his career, right? Well ... sure there is. Frank's granddaughter, Sara Frazetta, and her partner Joe Weber are about to release a gorgeous new book featuring some of his most iconic illustrations and drawings and it was my pleasure to lend a helping hand. Featuring Frazetta's influential and ultimately unforgettable art—including nearly a dozen previously unpublished…

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