There's No There There

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"...It's impossible to be impressed with oneself..."

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Chiaroscuro

View a larger image. Mending The Sails, 35" x 35" - oil/canvas

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"...the root words of chiaroscuro -- light lifting the tonal veil of darkness -- are both clear and obscure. Folds become beautiful when a little mystery (and shadow) is added..."

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A Slow Slide Sideways

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"...There are two types of people. Those whose horizons sink to the right and those whose horizons sink to the left..."

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Staring so Hard You Can't See

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"...Ironically, slogging along in the process artists can be painting blind..."

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By the Light of the Moon

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"...Just like in the old movies when the heroine gets that dreamy quality (from grease on the lens) the moon is just far enough away and out of focus so that romantics and poets aren't confronted with its geological presence..."

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The Color of Color

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"...our brains are used to subtracting this pervading tint from what we see before us..."

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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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Camera Obscura: Light in a Dark Room

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"Girl in a Red Hat" by Vermeer

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"...A friend who is an engineer that sends laser light to the moon visited the studio the other day and we got to talking about the camera obscura (a projected image box that Vermeer had access to.) Now, every few days he calls me into his office so can see the improvements on a rig he set up in his window..."

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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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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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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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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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Eye Candy

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"...A photograph would most likely represent these nuances as a single and colorless light tone..."

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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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Excerpt from this posting:

"...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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