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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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Steering a Career: Your Changing Flow State

Winona Nelson

June 2, 2025 -   Many of you have heard of Mihály Csikszentmihályi's work studying the "flow state" in which performance at a task becomes so engrossing and enjoyable that one's sense of time disappears. It is characterized by a feeling of challenge meeting the skill to achieve the goal. I've been thinking a lot lately about how energized I feel by the kinds of work I am getting these days. The more personal I've gotten with my work, the more clients reach out to me with projects that align with my specific identity and expertise. For instance, it has always been a goal for me to work on projects that incorporate my Native American background, and as I've grown my body of works specifically originating from that aspect of my identity, I've attracted clients and projects in need…

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