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ART CHALLENGE #94

Ming Franz
New Mexico, USA, Arch, acrylic,
24 x 18" (61 x 46 cm)
Finalist

My Inspiration
I was born in the lush forests of southern
Taiwan and grew up on a sugar plantation.
I started painting when I was 8 years old
with my neighbor, Mr. Tsai, an art teacher,
who often took me on bicycle rides to other
villages to paint. He also took me hiking
and taught me how to observe nature. As
a child, I also had to walk many miles to
school. I am still an avid hiker today and
have hiked many mountains around the
world. Thus, I developed an early passion for
nature, especially waterfalls, streams, rivers,
trees and birds. I became a landscape painter
because nature is part of my life. After
discovering splash color painting, I began
to understand semiabstract and abstract flow and merge until the color and shape shape. Lastly, I add white acrylic between
painting and my most recent work is toward pleases me. I cultivate the painting to reflect each of the lines, and then I tilt and move
abstraction. my own distinctive style. This innovative the canvas to let all the colors blend and
style of painting is all about using freedom, merge. When the abstract form is satisfying,
My Design Strategy creativity and your imagination. It is about I use a heat gun to dry it to keep the shape.
I have changed my splash ink style to a finding your inner spirit and letting it work If I am not satisfied, I dump the remaining
splash color style by pouring acrylic on for you and through you. acrylic on the canvas and let it run. That
canvas and wood panels instead of paper. My Working Process is how I created Arch, by dumping the
I now use acrylic instead of watercolor. I use remaining red color on the wood panel.
five high-flow acrylics and fluid acrylic to I usually using pre-gessoed boards and Contact Info
pour in black, blue, red, yellow and white. canvas. I add two more coats of dark color,
I squeeze a thin line of high-flow acrylics on and when dried, use a sponge to wet the » Email: mingfranz555@gmail.com
canvas whichever way I want to display, in canvas or wood panel lightly. I start with » Website: www.mingfranzstudio.com
V-shape, S-shape, X-shape, etc. I then tilt blue in the lines of the shape I have chosen,
and move the board a bit to let the acrylic followed by red and yellow in the same

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