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Color

I was trying to figure out what the opposite color of brown was a week ago, and I found this website with a great color tool.  I have strong instincts

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Fear of Ruining It

I wrote in a previous post that Jean-Michel Basquiat didn’t seem to have any fear in his art making process. Maybe in part because he was constantly making things. I

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Foxes

This fox arrived the other day and reminded me of how much I like foxes. They must be my favorite animal (after tigers). I have never met a fox, so

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Shading

What I really need to learn how to do is to shade my illustrations in a convincing way. That’s a large part of why I wanted to learn how to

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May I say something?

I am trying to learn to paint. One of my favorite artists, Yoshitomo Nara, makes these delicious backgrounds that have so many colors in them, but it’s very subtle. I have

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What We're Reading

Annie is reading, very slowly, Swann’s Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 by Marcel Proust.

She is also reading Nudge by Thaler and Sunstein

Mickey is reading The Elevator by Yael Frankel.