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Technique
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Development of my  early schooling 
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      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 -