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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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The Creative Safe Space

Vanessa Lemen

May 22, 2025 - What is a creative safe space to you? To me, this is a place to make time for exploration, to venture into uncharted territory in order to learn about something we don’t know, to see more clearly what we do know, and that there is always room to expand upon that knowing and learning. This is a space for new directions, to acknowledge what got us to this point and look to that with gratitude for having known what that has given us, taught us, and how it’s helped us grow. This is a moment to take for ourselves to create something to see what shows up, and in the doing of that, we see that there is a forever space where the story shifts and we can always come back here to see ourselves…

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