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Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.

Robert Genn

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
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Alpine
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Meadow
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Methodology
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Meadows
Take
Brush
Trying
Brushes
Work
Bees
Promiscuously
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Finish
Laboriously

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