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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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DON’T SWEAT THE AI TIGER

Greg Ruth

April 11, 2025 - Full confession- There's smarter folk than me to write about AI art, and wiser practical experience behind it to discuss its pro and cons. I was offered to try Midjourney AI and ended up not bothering with it. Just zero interest in playing with that particular tool, not out of some grandiose ethic, but for the same reason I don’t use an intuos device, or drawing on my iPad: I just don’t dig MAKING digital art. At all. For me it lacks the haptic responsiveness with the material I find I adore, doesn’t let me import some other wild idea in material or substance that it doesn’ already have in its digital toolbox. It always feels to me like experiencing the world like John Travolta did when he was that little bubble boy, or watching…

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