Those Baumgardner videos are incredibly cool! I've never gone as deep in the materials-practices weeds as some of my acquaintances, but the weeds go as deep as one cares to go 
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Replying to @kendrictonn
every hobby is fractal * burn firewood * get into chainsaws ; learn about saw types * learn about CHAIN types * learn about SPECIALTY chain types * learn about SPECIALTY grinds on chains * learn about TOOLS to achieve these grinds
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I saw you said something a bit back about becoming increasingly aware of the amount of Design Intelligence and Supply Chain behind... everything. I think about that a lot, when I want to feel slightly nauseated & terrified.
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Replying to @kendrictonn
right? also, hopping back to the topic of oil paints, over the last few years I've been thinking that I might want to play around with it will never be an Artist™, but might be fun to do some impressionistic stuff most interested in the blocky atmospheric style of John Harris
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Replying to @MorlockP @kendrictonn
so at some point I might drop $400 on easel, a few canvases, and some cheap paints, etc. would be curious for any advice !
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He's working in a different idiom, so I don't have a strong method ready-to-go. However! He's got cool atmosphere, color, ships, but the core of his work is geometric design and solid, minimal, composition... (1/)
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Replying to @kendrictonn @MorlockP
I don't /know/ his method, but I wouldn't be surprised if he starts with his composition (ok, a circle, this size, in this place), and just explicates from there, taking care to maintain that strong geometry, without an enormo amount of preliminary design work (2/)
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Replying to @kendrictonn @MorlockP
So anyway, where I might actually start is with a vellum-finish bristol board, a bottle of India Ink (mixed with water for washes), a fairly large watercolor brush, and possibly this book https://www.amazon.com/Composition-Understanding-Notan-Color-Instruction/dp/048646007X/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1V1DDRJXE7L57&keywords=notan+the+dark-light+principles+of+design&qid=1574775614&sprefix=notan+%2Caps%2C154&sr=8-2 … (3)
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But yeah! IMO, the core of his work is two-value (Saturn; a light and a dark) or three-value (light, midtone, dark) geometric compositions, so off the top of my head, I'd break down the challenge & start with some inkwash studies, which'd be $30 in materialspic.twitter.com/wK7XNwhWR3
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