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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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Studio Dreams

Cory Godbey

July 22, 2025 - “This is the little corner of the world wherein I shall work out my destiny.” N. C. Wyeth A while back fellow Muddy Colors contributor, monster enthusiast, and cat wrangler, Justin Gerard, and I were talking about studios. He posed the question: what makes an ideal studio? In all the working set ups from all the years, what really mattered for quality of life and production? Thinking through every place in the last 15 years that I'd sat at a desk to draw, it hit me; you know what, this is a much tougher question you might think! Was it windows and light? A sprawling space or a cozy nook? Desks and books? House plants? A whole bunch of wild animals? I felt like I could rank the places I'd called "home base" over the…

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