Blink and the World Changes

Studio/Gallery since 10/2009

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"...One thing I've learned as an artist is that if I'm not inspired I'm wasting paint (also called: priming canvases the sloooow way)...and two months later I'm back at the easel dabbing with familiar brushes. Shades of the world is as you see it (Vijnana Baihriva for those who have time to delve into ancient texts.)..."

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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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The Right Brain at Work and Play

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"...The studio works start with this reportage and turn them into pictures..."

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Neither Then Nor Later

View a larger image. Dories, 6" x 9" - oil/panel

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"...that free the thinking and the doing: a perfect place of art..."

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-Doug Rugh

Man Overboard

View a larger image. Whispering Pines (Monhegan Island), 8" x 10" - oil/panel

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"...Another visitor, just arriving on the scene, got through to 9-1-1 and they said, "Isn't there anybody there on the island that can help you?"..."

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King of the Nursing Home

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"...By the time I get there I'm sure to be top dog at the nursing home..."

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Hospital Cove

View a larger image. Hospital Cove, 8" x 14" - oil/panel

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"...I sat in the shade of the dock just out of view, following my rule to find a vantage point that was also a place that I would choose if I were stopping to enjoy the day..."

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Simple Subject and a Visit with Nature

View a larger image. Cropping of Rocks at Lobster Cover, Monhegan Island, 5" x 7" - oil/panel

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"...And there they were: two dorsal fins in unison rising and dipping slowly just off the rocks and close enough that I didn't have to get off my seat..."

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Brushstrokes in Balance

View a larger image. Airplane House, 5" x 7" - oil/panel

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"...neither too fussed over nor overly stylized with self-conscious dabbing...."

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You, Too, Have Asked...

Saint Luke painting the Virgin by Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, 1515. Note mahl stick in hand.

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"You are being handed this card because you are in good company. Like 9 out of 10 men (and most women) who come up to me while I'm painting on location you have just asked, "What is the stick for?"..."

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Head in the Clouds

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Excerpt from this posting: "...It happens like this: What should I paint? Wow, look at the light in the clouds. Set up. Work quickly to capture the moving sky remembering what it was moments before and anticipating how it's going to become. Periodically survey the scene for unexpected events. Feel the wind on the left side of the face and then brush in the waves and then back into the clouds. The palette and hands move colors around automatically. Realize the sky is completely changed: stop. Stand back and see what happened. Just as a song or a smell can take me back to a long past memory, this painting will always take me back to that afternoon on the beach..."

-Doug Rugh

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Lord of the Flies

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"...Soon I had a little girl and boy leaning on the shoulders of both my palette arm and my working arm. They had no idea that I couldn't work like that and the two girls who stood right in front of me -- right in my view -- didn't need their parents to tell them to look at the artist..."

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Fog Induced

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"...Streetlights behind trees cast their limbs across thick fog like projected holograms and remind me of warm summer nights walking around a Woods Hole (add boat and fog horns for effect) transformed into an overblended monochromatic underpainting..."

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Complexity of Quiet

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"...art satisfies a need. For most art collectors -- with their complicated and busy lives -- there seems to be an appeal in..."

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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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Center of the Universe

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"...But what struck me that night was the run of light, beginning with the single spot on the horizon and it's hundreds of reflections pointing in a line straight towards me..."

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Eye Contact

This is the plein air sketch used for a larger painting.

Excerpt from this posting:

"...when that presence behind me starts speaking I respond but continue painting without meeting its eye. It is an unusual sensation meeting someone for the first time, this way in the dark. But my eyes are busy..."

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Heat in the Firehouse

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"...Photographs can capture one or the other but because of limitations in value range aren't able to portray what the eye can see. Pigments have similar limitations but the artist must use optical tricks to simulate the illusion..."

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Hey, That's My View

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"...It was a photographer. He said, "I hope you don't mind." and stood right in front of me and shot my view!..."

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