Painting Blind

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"...Da Vinci recommended staring at stains on the walls for inspiration and I just looked for the beginnings of details and pulled the rest from memory banks..."

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2006 - 2010

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-Doug Rugh

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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2006 - 2010

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-Doug Rugh

Final Rigging

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An excerpt from a chapter by the artist in Still-Life in Oils, edited by Theodora Philcox:

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"...The movement ends with a quiet crescendo of the wave, not noticed at first, in part of a painting by Winslow Homer called 'Weatherbeaten' on the wall behind. Light bounces against the shiny surface of the bow as it slides through the 'water' and the silhouette of the raincoat on the chair continues the movement of the trailing wake that follows behind..."

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95 Full-Color Illustrations (Oil paintings by the author.)
2006 - 2010

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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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102 Entries
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95 Full-Color Illustrations (Oil paintings by the author.)
2006 - 2010

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-Doug Rugh

Look, I'm an Airplane. Wheeee!

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"Scarecrows prove the point that gesture reveals much about character..."

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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