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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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Forge Ahead

Vanessa Lemen

June 19, 2025 - When I start to write these articles here on Muddy Colors, I am often stricken with this strange dichotomy of being vulnerable in the sharing of something meaningful to the world and wondering if anyone even reads these anyway. Sometimes, my anxiety is so strong that I just need to post something that will not allow these feelings to bubble up. These types of articles are usually the ones that become the sharing of a few favorite tools or a quick bullet-point of the progression of a recent piece. But most of the time, I feel it’s truly important to really try to push past the feeling I get of worry and lack of worth, anxiety and dread, and share something meaningful, something human and thoughtful. It’s important to me. And it also scares the…

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