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1 Technique If you have something to say you can communicate it someway Technical facility helps you to say it more clearly. Development of my early schooling [[strikethrough]] particular way [[\strikethrough]]: Student Drawing from cast - Wanted to be a water color-artist - (washing brushes) First taught to paint - reflections - highlights Copper Strawberries National Academy - Impressionism was fashionable Yellow sunlight & purple shadows - no black Henri School Independent school Armory Show Tried to paint radical kind of painting without understanding. Imitated worst side of Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gaugen Art Students League - Kenneth H. Miller taught me to think about things Old masters drawings of Rembrandtetc. began to exercise memory - stating understanding of factual facts from memory selected colors - canvas Mind shifted [[strikethrough]] from [[\strikethrough]] to composing from memory and imagination Paris - people painting from object thorough understanding of medium American painters understood nothing of oil as a medium. I started back to learn from Nature. Perfect way is combination of [[strikethrough]] memory [[\strikethrough]] imagination and nature. That is the way I try to paint now -