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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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Color Roughs

Jesper Ejsing

June 23, 2025 - Color roughs are something I put a lot of value in. Colors set the mood. They tell a story as much as the drawing does. To me, the color choice has never been easy or something I have taken lightly, but over the years I have developed different palettes that I like and that I tend to use more often. Take a look at the 4 different color rough I did for a dragon painting. Number one is a cloudy day, and number 3 is a sunny day. ( Looking at them now I wish I had gone with the cloudy day ) The number 2 and 4 are more evening/night but with an oversaturated color palette. I think it is 4 totally different paintings and it is only the colors that has changed. They…

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