Nature is my pallet and my first teach ...for the Earth provides me a pallet of color, texture and shapes...giving me ideas & strength to create and the power to communicate in and through ART I Love ART, in the RAW. Reference is great for refining but a raw sketch is a stage in planning and a thought for something better to come It is not just the sketch but the history and the story and idea that are found through research and a decision of which medium to engage and express in. Everything in art is viewed in the form of geometry through basic shapes, fractal or exact The gift is in how you put it all together!