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Greige Economics
I have been car shopping recently, and I don’t know if you’ve been paying attention, but cars have gotten boring as hell. Most cars are now not a unique model, they are a type. There’s a little hatchback, a small SUV, a large SUV, a minivan — and maker to maker they are kind of…
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Halloween Gallery
I love Halloween. The weather, the trees, the light, the Moon, the myths, legends, and creepy stories…all of it entices me to celebrate the spirit of the season. These are some of my personal favorite paintings reflecting on what has become a long career, and looking forward to…
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You Are More Creative Than You Think
Hello, here is another video on the Big C and Little C (creativity). In this video, we take another look at what creativity really is, the difference between everyday “little c” creativity and world-changing “Big C” creativity, and why you have more of both than you think. Along…
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SO YOU SAY YOU WANNA BE AN ILLUSTRATOR: Chapter 1
It’s weird out there for sure, and there’s a lot of change going on and major tectonic shifting to be certain. Coming up now as an illustrator is in many ways an unrecognizably different enterprise than it was when I was coming up in the 1990’s, but happily most of it remains…
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The Lucas Museum
Look, I’m not saying that visiting the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art was the only reason I have to visit Los Angeles…but I will admit it was THE reason I flew out there all the way from NYC this past weekend. And it was 100% absolutely worth it. If you are near LA or have…
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Answers Await 250 Miles Up
There was more to the recent Artemis II mission than just rounding the Moon for home. Besides the main objective, to observe and study with human eyes the far side of the satellite, there were other scientific experiments onboard —from aerospace industries in Kentucky. I know!…
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Learning How to See Part 3: Training Your Eyes to See Past the Obvious
Do you ever wonder where an artist finds inspiration for unusual or fantastical subject matter? I spent a day at Alta Vista Gardens doing studies, slowing down and letting my eyes settle on things I’d normally rush past. In this video, I share how a change in perspective can…
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Donato Arts Open Studio – Saturday September 26, 2026
DONATO ARTS OPEN STUDIO 2026 Saturday September 26th 11am – 6pm 397 Pacific Street Brooklyn, NY 11217 Details on my website: https://donatoarts.com/news The studio and house are being prepared with the hanging of new artworks for the upcoming Open Studio. Items have been added…
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Conversations with Artists: The Figure Society
The original feature article that I did on The Figure Society got lost to the web hosting tech gremlins. I did not have a copy of the original article, so I did a rewrite and am sharing it in this month’s Conversations with Artists! In May of 2026, I was able to have an…
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Mistake or New Possibility?
I received a nice message recently with a question related to one of my previous articles here on Muddy Colors called “Guided by Marks and Pareidolia”. The question was about knowing the difference between whether something is a mistake or more of an accidental new direction. It…
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Cherish Your Motifs
I paint a lot of trees. I love their shapes and textures, they make for great compositional tools, and most importantly, they’re symbolically versatile. Sometimes trees exist in my work for the same reasons anyone would include them. Their gesture and balance can easily aid in…
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A Scientific Study on Art Careers
So it’s not often that PubMed and Fine Art cross paths, but I ran across this study referenced in something I was reading, and I think it’s interesting enough to bring here and talk about. The study is called Quantifying Reputation and Success in Art and it was published in…
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10 Things…About Planning Pictures
Gregory Manchess Start small. Thumbnails. Learn to draw them. Learn to use them. Learn to love them. What you design small will always blow up proportionately. Starting out large will not always work. Use the small size of thumbnails to structure your painting quickly,…
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Think You’re Not Creative? You’re Measuring it Wrong
What does it actually mean to be creative? Most of us have developed a very specific picture of creativity who has it, what it looks like, and what someone has to accomplish before they deserve to be called creative. But what if that definition is far too narrow? In this…
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Reference, Exactly
Recently a couple of different students have mentioned to me that “they don’t get a chance to see artists’ reference side-by-side with their finals all that often.” Hmmmmm. Now, there is a literal shitstorm of posts and articles out there featuring this theme, but I think the…