Excerpt from this posting:
"...Hopper puts black where he means vague. The variations in surface between lost areas and visible texture, between brushed thin paint and scumbled opaque paint is just enough to make the canvas push into three-dimensional life ahead of it's two-dimensional facsimile..."
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2006 - 2010
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Observations by Doug Rugh, a classically trained artist based on Cape Cod,Massachusetts. (Overwrought penumbras, tangential tales and meager conundrums diffused through the squinting oculus of a shade arranger.)
Showing posts with label surface. Show all posts
Showing posts with label surface. Show all posts
Monday, June 04, 2007
Edward Hopper
Labels:
art school,
Boston,
composition,
exhibitions,
figures,
insight,
inspiration,
masters,
museum,
paint quality,
pigments,
scale,
surface,
viewing
Friday, May 11, 2007
There's No There There
View a larger image. Blueberries and Cream, 9" x 12" - oil/panelExcerpt from this posting:
"...It's impossible to be impressed with oneself..."
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102 Entries
26,700+ Words
95 Full-Color Illustrations (Oil paintings by the author.)
2006 - 2010
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Labels:
blended,
challenges,
drawing,
hue/temperature,
influence,
inspiration,
masters,
music,
oil painting,
optics,
paint quality,
painting,
props,
realism,
still life,
student,
surface,
tennis,
value/tone
Monday, March 19, 2007
Neither Then Nor Later
View a larger image. Dories, 6" x 9" - oil/panelExcerpt from this posting:
"...that free the thinking and the doing: a perfect place of art..."
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102 Entries
26,700+ Words
95 Full-Color Illustrations (Oil paintings by the author.)
2006 - 2010
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-Doug Rugh
Labels:
color,
insight,
landscape,
light,
location,
mood,
oil painting,
painting,
plein air,
saturation/chroma,
summer,
surface,
time,
viewing,
Woods Hole
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Painting with Two Colors
View a larger image.This journal entry is now available as part of a compilation in ebook form:
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102 Entries
26,700+ Words
95 Full-Color Illustrations (Oil paintings by the author.)
2006 - 2010
More information here.
Labels:
blended,
color,
edges,
hue/temperature,
oil painting,
paint quality,
painting,
palette,
realism,
still life,
surface,
value/tone
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