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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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Contemporary Inspirations

Kristine Poole

June 5, 2025 - I was recently looking through one of my collections of inspiring artists and artworks. Once again immersed in a few delicious moments of wonder at all the things humans think up and make, I spent some time thinking about how grateful I am for the countless contemporary creative visions we can experience with just a few clicks of a button. It's remarkable. From my earliest art crushes to my life-long creative love affairs, looking at my favorite artworks makes me dream and aspire and imagine and consider and question. As we ultimately only get to experience one particular life in our time on this planet,  I'm also fond of imagining if I were living a different creative life, which would I find inspiring (of course, looking from the outside and afar, I can completely make…

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