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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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Frazetta Videos X 4

Arnie Fenner

February 24, 2025 - Frank Frazetta's granddaughter, Sara, continues to share fascinating stories about all things Frazetta on her YouTube Channel and, in case you've missed them, I thought I'd share some links so everyone can get caught up. (And, psst, you can also visit the Frazetta Girls website to learn more about her grandparents and be tempted by all sorts of neat products, including prints, apparel, and collectible figures.) First up is an episode devoted to collecting Frazetta's original art—and Sara reveals what her grandmother Ellie's real plans were for the museum she built. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWEw5Pd3Ang[/embed] Above: Frazetta's "Egyptian Queen," the 1969 cover for Eerie magazine #23, sold for $5,400,000 at auction in 2019. Next Sara explains how Frazetta came to do a series of TV Guide ads for Battlestar Galactica after he had turned down a commission to paint a poster…

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