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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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Kinokuniya Haul

Winona Nelson

May 5, 2025 - As we usually do when we to into New York, my husband (fellow artist Anthony Palumbo) and I went to Kinokuniya for some imported books and art supplies. I am apprehensive about the possibility of tariffs making the price of these kinds of items balloon, but for today at least they were still as expected. Tony's main objective was to find the new Cannabis Works 2 by Tatsuyuki Tanaka. Find it we did, and if you are looking for more of what's in the first Cannabis Works book, you will not be disappointed. It's a gorgeous book! [video width="1920" height="1080" mp4="https://www.muddycolors.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/flip-through.mp4"][/video]   I was set on getting some more Midori paper, which is what I've been using since Moleskine discontinued most sizes of the Sketch Pad. I'd been irritated with the inconsistent quality of their…

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