• Add a dark pigment to light colors.
• When darkening a color, avoid using black. To create a more nuanced color, try adding ultramarine blue or burnt umber instead.
• Skip using black altogether. Mix them in equal parts to make a rich, beautiful black. When mixed with white, it makes a great gray.
• To make a color look “cool,” add blue. To make it appear warmer, try incorporating yellows or reds.
• Play around with color mixing without using any paint—thanks to this website. Try Colors
• Mix your colors a little lighter than you want them to dry.

I’d go as far as saying that you should not expect any traction until you have put out (published, shipped) at least three hundred great pieces of work.

It is this level of quantity that leads to:

Refinement and mastery of your skills;
Being faster, more efficient and better at flow;
A growing sense of momentum and energy;
Getting a better sense of what people WANT;
More ‘nodes’ through which to attract attention online and elsewhere;
More ideas and more ‘aha’ moments that lead to more electric, more emotional output;
Others believing in you because you believe in yourself, by showing up often or every day.

“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly."

Writing intrinsically champions and improves creativity, critical thinking, and clarity.

To help further this exploration, Reas and his colleague Ben Fry (a principal of Fathom, a design and software consultancy in Boston) in 2001 developed their own software, called Processing, that bridges the divide between programming and art, making both processes more intuitive.

Invisible space in the story of ‘The Purloined Letter’. Focused on the relationship between events, characters and the signifier