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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Capturing an Audience

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"...A little later a girl came up to me in a rare quiet moment and said, "If I sit out there will you paint me?"..."

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Tickle Imagination Paintings

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"Here are some of the search strings that I found amusing...ego massage is a pleasant pastime..."

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Taking the Fork in the Road

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"...I'm in Paris and he's never left the farm. I had been spending time on the periphery dazzled by the bright lights and I come back and he's just sitting under the tree with Ferdinand smelling the flowers..."

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Peace

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From Antiquity to Antique

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Excerpt from this posting: "The central figure is the muse among the ruins (though these scalloped columns are pink) and the carved organ pedals are in the shape of her lyre..."

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-Doug Rugh

Keen Sense of the Obvious

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"...It is a simple formula: the more one looks and studies art the more one sees..."

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Rose Colored Glasses

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"...I lost my glow back in the studio when I looked at my colorless panel. The pink light of the setting sun no longer tinting my drab colors..."

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Still Life Elements

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From an interview with Doug in Still-Life in Oils by Theodora Philcox:


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"...I started with a very saturated pthalo green underpainting because I wanted the underlying feeling of that pure but mysterious sea colour to predominate..."

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Ferry to the Vineyard

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"...I hesitate to finesse it, as I normally would, because it captures the feeling of the day..."

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Pushing and Pulling

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"...only came to life as I pushed the paint around. I've found that there are two ways to make something up..."

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Opening Doors, Outdoors

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"...the process itself becomes the attraction and the end result is a still movie of the artist's mind and hand at work..."

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