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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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Eranos and the Archetype Database

Lauren Panepinto

July 10, 2025 - Last month I did a long post about how to not rely on Google images to do your image research — for a lot of reasons, including originality, accuracy, and avoiding AI sludge filling up search engines. The short version of the post is to start using better/vetted databases. And one I forgot to add is worth a whole post in itself, for the kind of things we do in fantastic art. Let me introduce you to the Eranos Archive. The Eranos Foundation was an archive started by a student/follower of Carl Jung, who I've talked about many times here. His body of work was the human subconscious and unconscious, and the archetypes that recur in human art, religion, dreams, and stories over and over again. I've talked about both him and Joseph Campbell, who…

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