CREAVE PROCESS

Asian simplicity  - english watercolor - western perspective - modern acrylic paint - old world linen 
ANALYSIS -CONCEPT-SOLUTION
When doing your analysis  keep it all inclusive
When forming your concept keep it singular
When putting it all together do not deviate from the concept and refer to the analysis to keep you on track
  Thanks to Professor  Emeritus William  J. Johnson FASLA
  Johnson, Johnson and Roy, and the University of Michigan.

In any competition between two biomass the most organized wins 
(in the plant world who can get water the highest to  get the most sunlight)

I your can't solve a problem you are probably  not asking the right questions 
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HEART RIVER FIELD STUDY BIKE AS EASEL ACRYLIC  ON LINEN

HANDEL BARS EXTENSIONS ARE END BARS LETS YOU SIT UP TO SEE WHATS THE NEXT PAINTING WILL BE

Using a one color acrylic wash helps keep it simple

bag easel  acrylic plain air 

The bag easel is a quick set up and  and very mobile Plein air painting in North Dakota is a challenge to say the least and requires a little innovation 


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the box is a sistema I used rubber band to hold it to the top of the bag with a clip to allow flip up access The panel is fom-cor wrapped in shipping tape a slot is taped to the back of the box to hold it and allow it to removed

 french ultramarine blue permanent alizarin crimson azo yellow medium Winsor Newton (no cadmium) paint a lot of deciduous trees and i need a dark green i use golden fluid quinacridone burnt orange for my sketch and underpainting 

gray card stock print paper is used as a  throwaway palette for  mixing acrylic  paint using containers from SKS Plastic Bottles 

Patricia Schroeder Loheed Bike easel; wow, double wow!  A fac book post Patricia is a classmate of mine from the University of Michigan  School of Landscape Architecture

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Frosty paris studio creative process which we both learned at the U of MIch
analysis: better access faster set up
concept (singular) bike
solution :bag (keeps it portable)-fome-cor shipping tape-box -rubber bands and clips resting on a hard sided bike handle bar bag


PAINTING PROCESS
I try to find the one thing that is special about a subject.
Expand that into a good composition.
Then with brush and paint try to feature that special part, without it   dominating
Remembering the whole should be greater than the sum of parts.
All the while using liquid paint that has an infinite number of  values and colors and is applied with a bush containing a thousand wild hairs.
The bigger the brush the better.



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