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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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Broligarchs, AI, and a Techno-Authoritarian

Arnie Fenner

June 16, 2025 - Recently Jon Stewart spoke with journalist Carole Cadwalladr on The Daily Show about the dangers AI pose's to individual privacy, freedom, and financial livelihoods. (Yes, artists, including ours.) Since the courts always move at a glacial pace and since the administration of the U.S. has included language in its "Big Beautiful Bill" (currently in the Senate) that protects and exempts AI companies from any liability or lawsuits for infringing on copyrights in the creation of their software for at least 10 years ... watch and listen. And after, if you're alarmed or worried, write or call your Senator or Congressperson and express those concerns. (Some of the representatives in Congress have admitted that they hadn't actually read the bill before they signed it and were surprised to learn of the AI clause: they had one…

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