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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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TrendWatching Part 3: Same Trend, New Name

Lauren Panepinto

March 20, 2025 - Hello again, you're at Part 3 of my series on TrendWatching, so make sure you go back and read the previous parts first: TrendWatching Part 1: Philosophy TrendWatching Part 2: Castlecore, Pre-Raphaelites, and Feminist Nuns So we've talked a lot about the different levels of TrendWatching (in short, the deeper you go, the further ahead of a trend you can get) but there's also deeper currents in Trendwatching that affect what's happening on the surface level. Last post we talked a lot about the Collective Unconscious. Things will affect the Collective Unconscious of society as a whole, and that will influence trends. Fashion and Advertising keep a really close eye on these movements. Both industries rely on noticing trends early and adapting to them, but they also see the seed of a trend, then weaken…

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