There was an incident then..., and I will die again someday. One concern of mine, is that time is a wasting.
Art was something I would always be doing, but I knew I could develop it on my own.
One day after, I went to Japan to see what it was like. I liked enough of what I saw to live there for the past 6 years. I don't stay especially long in any one place. Nagano was my favorite part of this place so far.
Because I do the majority of my painting in crowded far off areas: swamps, forests, and from mountain tops, I [
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There was an incident then..., and I will die again someday. One concern of mine, is that time is a wasting.
Art was something I would always be doing, but I knew I could develop it on my own.
One day after, I went to Japan to see what it was like. I liked enough of what I saw to live there for the past 6 years. I don't stay especially long in any one place. Nagano was my favorite part of this place so far.
Because I do the majority of my painting in crowded far off areas: swamps, forests, and from mountain tops, I can only carry smaller canvasses.
Oil paint works best on shorter excursions, but I usually use acrylic paint when I go a significant distance.
I paint outside whenever the weather (and scenery) permits.
On less nice days I spend time looking for places with a certain 'energy' to them, and I go back to those places when the weather improves.
I like my pictures to look like what they depict, but I`m more concerned that they feel the way that I feel when I`m there. The colors I use for this purpose are characteristically bold. They are as much: what is clearly visible, as they are a 'feeling' I have.
"Something is lurking deep in the scenery."
Trees, for instance, are not merely “trees”, but a growing, breathing, reaching presence.
I make reminders, and put just a small identifying mark on the front (and sign/ date/ title the back of each piece). [
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