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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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YESTERDAY’S POST


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Beyond The Orbs Of Sight


Vanessa Lemen

July 17, 2025 - I think as creative humans, it’s important to have a deep and strong connection to the senses. And I feel that all senses are a support to the others. They work in tandem, and along with understanding and openness, a presence. For example, let’s take what it is to see. What does “to see” mean to you? I feel that to see is… To be awake, aware, to let ourselves be lifted by all that we are a part of. To feel and breathe the surroundings. To notice and admire from the simplest to the most complex of things. To be carved into something new by the witnessing and the desire for an understanding of what we feel a pull towards. To be present, immersed in the sound and sights and what is felt and…

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