If you’ve taken up watercolors, you’re surely familiar with the popular colors of today: the Cadmium Reds and Yellows; Hooker Green, Sap Green, and Viridian; Cobalt, Cerulean, Prussian Blue, and Ultramarine. There are a few colors you don’t hear much about anymore. Why don’t people use them? Green Bice (above) Also called Verditer…

Here at Attempted Not Known, we pride ourselves on personally crafting quality comic/objects. But what actually happens when your order reaches our massive business campus? A mega-corporation I ain’t. Everything I make is by hand, and it’s complicated.

If you take a lot of notes, you probably already have a system. Maybe you use Notion or Confluence; maybe you’re bullet journaling; maybe you’re a Zettelkasten fan. You might already use something like Dropbox or OneNote to sync your notes across devices. These are great, but if you’re sharing…

My dad gave me a bunch of his old art stuff. One item was this antique Winsor and Newton watercolor box, probably from the 1960s. I’ve been getting into watercolor painting recently, and thought it would be interesting to bring this kit back to life. …

I’ve been playing Fortnite Battle Royale. It’s a video game in which 100 players run around an island shooting each other until only one player survives. …

If you aren’t using Markdown to take notes, you’re missing out. Because Markdown uses text symbols to indicate formatting, you don’t have to use menus or complicated shortcuts to format your text. That makes it possible to take beautiful notes very quickly. There are many Markdown editors, including some specifically…

I’m not on Medium strictly to make money. That is, if I hit a nerve and end up producing a series of content that becomes wildly successful, leading to book deals and a Nobel prize, I’ll take it. But I’m not on here coldly calculating how to maximize my dollars. …

I’ve had at least a half-dozen Lenovos, from tablets to laptops, and until recently I thought of that brand as my standby for Windows and Linux machines. My most recent Lenovo let me down quickly and deeply, and I started looking for a new brand. I needed to replace a…