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A Landscape About Blue

Blue Trees in the Middle Distance
7 - 3/8ths" x 5.75"
Pastel
Casey Klahn

You can make a different painting - a painting and an idea that the world has never seen before.  Here are some ways to make it different.


Be authentic.  Have a new idea, and think of subjects that evoke a response in your own self.  I like to make images of the Hoquiam River that aren't sunny, but that do evoke a feeling of hope and resolve.   


Work with some amount of personal involvement.  That has happened when you have struggled with an image.  Perhaps you lost track of the time.


Don't think; see.


Keep your ideas and your shapes big.


How do you work to gain authenticity?


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