I start off projects with environmental sketches, and, sometimes I use a project with a set "goal" to help me accomplish that... in this case, I tried to imagine a mine... on a different planet!!!

1. In Process
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2. I think of the coolest places in my head
and I try to imagine the lighting...
And then I build them out...
FIRST:
Create a projeCt in one’s head that
embodies Creative environmental
imagination... so where better to
start than a mine... so i ask, Can my
mine be on another planet? why
not!!!

3. Second:
I wonder around this world for a bit,
thinking of the atmosphere, the build-
ing situations... or even the mining
possibilities...

4. third:
then i try to imagine what is out there...
who would live there?
what makes up “there”?
what is it like to live there?
how Can “i” get there?

5. i would live here...

6. fourth: What can be done here?

7. As I explore the surface... and
my mind.... for a bit...
I contemplate day and night,
cool and hot... Hard at work...
Or just resting from the day!

8. fifth:
And as my imagination
wonders....

9. I crawl back into the cave from
which I emerged...

10. lastly:
I create
HOME...
in all
sense of
a foreign
escape...

11. Because I like to imagine such strange and
wonderous worlds, I must first master my
own... and painting from life is going to be
the key in doing this...
and it’s all about finding the familiar to
“inspire” imagination...
and the proCess Continues...