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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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My 2 Favorite Studio Tips!

Robert Hunt

May 28, 2025 - Heres a quick one: Two studio tips that can save you a lot of time, effort and money. First: If you are like most painters, your paint tubes are in a big pile, requiring a search mission every morning when you set out your pallate. Here's a very easy solution that saves a ton of time every day, plus keeps you much better organized: organize your paint tubes on a vertical surface and hand them with office clips. I hang mine in the order I arrange the colors on my pallate, it helps me keep track of my inventory, it frees up space on my table and removes on tof the most nagging barriers to getting started : putting out paint.First: If you are like most painters, your paint tubes are in a big pile,…

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