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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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Lines

Stephen Green

March 31, 2025 - Unlike a painter, I work primarily in Line to separate shapes, as opposed to value. Unfortunately, lines don’t appear in the natural world that we see, but are an invention used to describe the separation of shapes, values, or produce tones. They must be constructed. Almost akin to the written word, they codify visual information into the symbolic. Also, like the written word, skill and individuality can provide a bit of flair, embellishment, spartan minimalism, supreme lushness, or outright chaos in their execution. To be comprehensive in a commentary on them would be to number the grains of sand on the shore, so here I will only write about some of approaches to linework that I enjoy from a very narrow slice of modern illustration, namely comics, specifically lines made in ink. One mustn’t sermon…

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