Blink and the World Changes

Studio/Gallery since 10/2009

www.OsbornAndRughGallery.com

Excerpt from this posting:

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

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Leonardo and Rembrandt Stunned

View a larger image. Nobska in the Fog, 16" x 24" - oil/canvas
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Excerpt from this posting:

"...Go ahead: picture Leonardo and Da Vinci sitting in the corner of your studio unblinking. The art world's version of shock and awe...."

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Other Eyes

View a larger image. Cranberry Bog at Dusk, 30" x 36" - oil/canvas

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Excerpt from this posting:

"...And then you notice that the paintings are all a little cock-eyed and that your host is looking at you...a little sideways too. You're both in sync. Just not with each other unless you're seeing through their eyes..."

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2006 - 2010

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-Doug Rugh

Edward Hopper

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"...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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Flying at Night

View a larger image. Inner Harbor, 9" x 12" - oil/panel

Excerpt from this posting:

"...remembering intuitively the spots where there was a gap in the curb and when it had to be jumped..."

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Apprentice

Man, 8" x 5" - oil/panel

Excerpt from this posting:

"...The apprentice coddles the sable over raised brushstrokes (cursing away Style's tempts), corrects a skewed perspective and steps aside, humbly, in front of the seamless Illusion. Later he winces at overlooked edges and gasps at unsubtle hues..."

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

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-Doug Rugh

Tickle and Hit the Road

View a larger image. Road to the Beach, 18" x 12" - oil/canvas
This road leads to Alfie's beach, a few yards of coast bought with sculpture, and a summer gathering spot where artists sit around bonfires.

Excerpt from this posting:

"...Thresholds are places of creativity which liberate the brain from its' rounded walls..."

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2006 - 2010

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Neither Then Nor Later

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

Excerpt from this posting:

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

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-Doug Rugh

Just Undo It

Lemon Twist (detail) - oil/panel

Excerpt from this posting:

"...as I carved a flourish a little too long my fingers searched for command + z to undo my last action. Instead, as in all things handmade the path is forward and a better state of the art becomes history. The flourish by necessity becomes even longer and more decorative; a mistake requiring a creative answer..."

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2006 - 2010

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Center of the Universe

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Excerpt from this posting:

"...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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Diffusion and Halation

This is a detail from a larger painting.

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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-Doug Rugh

Scribbling on the Tabula Rasa

Excerpt from this posting:

"...More recently she's started in on portraits. She'll say a name of someone in the family and draw a little blob. Then another name and another little amoeba. You can almost hear the cells dividing..."

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-Doug Rugh

Is Somebody Trying to Tell Me Something?

Excerpt from this posting:

"...This way I'm following the movement of the horses and always painting...."

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

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