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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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How to Design and Draw Hands

Ron Lemen

February 17, 2025 - This month is a quick and simple demonstration on how to draw the hands.  The first part of the video covers all the technical information you would need to know about the design of a hand, from the skin folds to the measurements and design language of the fingers.  The video ends with a quick demonstration studying a hand in Photoshop as a step by step process.   I hope you find the video useful for your studies. I was hoping to make a lengthier video on the illustration process covering different techniques but I have found myself short of time these days.  I plan on making a few videos elaborating on finishes very soon.  Thank you for watching and leave your comments below the video with questions of any kind art related and I will…

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