BLOG - Amanda Hinton

I have many small goals and curiosities lined up for my batch at the Recurse Center, but also two big themes of proposed work: build Chromaculture and get better at wielding LLMs.

How do you pick the most important colors from a photograph?

How do you show someone all the colors in a photograph?

This is a list of common AI terms and their definitions, compiled as I was becoming familiar with the basics.

I feel lucky that no one in my life ever told me I was bad at math.

Big Boots is a playful, bottom-heavy take on a slab serif.

I joined Heidi Gustafson and a dozen others for an excursion into the Oakland hills to uncover local pigments.

A watercolorist reached out for color recommendations for an upcoming commission.

Ultramarine blue originally signified pigment made of lapis lazuli - a super-precious paint made from a semi-precious stone from Afghanistan.

Caput mortuum is a rich brown earth pigment, a personal favorite that has earned a permanent place on my watercolor palette.

Cadmium red is an opaque, lightfast, staining, high-tinting pigment.

Historically, noire d'ivoire, elfenbeinschwarz, elephantinon, or ivory black was made from the ashes of burnt elephant tusks.