By app I mean application of something I practiced in a class lesson, or learned in a book, or noticed in someone else's art.
Today I 'downloaded' all sorts of 'apps' and pressed them into service:
• the contrast app
• the variety app
• the complementary colors app
• the transparency/opacity app
• the lines app
• the veiling app
• the neutrals app
• the negative space app, and
• the sunny, blue-skied, late summer day app.
Before, during, after:
from this 8x10" start,

to this 4x5" quadrant,

to this coverup,

to a completed painting.
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| Those Hours Spent in the Resplendent Light of the Outer Orchard 4x5"; acrylic, ink, pencil, and soluble pastels on paper, mounted on manila stock abstract 2017 sold |

