A Morning Chasing Light (It Got Away)

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"...On the opposite wall was her composition as only she could do it. Artists have a history of consuming their still lifes just before they sour so I had no qualms about, at a minimum, recycling the still life as a subject of my own...."

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Color Study

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"...A whole host of other aspects which can be followed individually like instruments in a symphony become something entirely different as a whole, complicating the matter and insuring that painting remain an art and not a science..."

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Painting with Two Colors

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Standing in Front of a Painting

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"...artwork done with the eye doesn't get a fair viewing. We're missing the transparent layers, the brushwork and impastos, the warm and cool nuances staining the canvas or obliterating it, the carefully worked passages contrasting the broad washes. In short: we're missing a sensitivity to medium..."

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Tea for Three

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"...Each surface reveals the cool square daylight/warm round spotlight relationship in its own way..."

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A Knife, A Face and a Bit of Color

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"...it is the chance to revel in pure color. Trowel on the thick paint and when it is just right, like a Polaroid developing, the truth kicks in..."

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Diffusion and Halation

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"...This is an effect that is around us everywhere in our daily lives but we trick ourselves into not seeing it (few artists are aware of it partly because many work from photographs) but it's obvious when you look for it..."

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-Doug Rugh