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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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“The Frog Bard” Digital Demo for Huion

Justin Gerard

April 15, 2025 -   I was recently given the opportunity to test drive the new Huion Kamvas 24 4K digital tablet and I have the results to share with you today. Most of the painting was done live, and if you'd like to see it, you can check out the first VOD where we came up with the design based on ideas from the chat: The Frog Bard Drawing (Youtube) In the second part we dive into the painting to see how well the device performs when working in color: The Frog Bard Painting (Youtube)   I don't tend to like drawing digitally that much. (There is nothing quite like the feel of old school graphite on paper!) But the Huion was actually excellent to work on and I felt like it solved a lot of the problems…

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