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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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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.)
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Showing posts with label meaning. Show all posts
Monday, February 19, 2007
Peace
Labels:
aesthetics,
Cape Cod,
Cataumet,
composition,
interpretation,
landscape,
meaning,
mood,
oil painting,
painting
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Final Rigging
An excerpt from a chapter by the artist in Still-Life in Oils, edited by Theodora Philcox:
Excerpt from this posting:
"...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..."
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
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Labels:
composition,
imagination,
inspiration,
meaning,
oil painting,
painting,
props,
realism,
still life,
viewing
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Keen Sense of the Obvious
Excerpt from this posting:
"...It is a simple formula: the more one looks and studies art the more one sees..."
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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:
artist,
Cape Cod,
composition,
inspiration,
interpretation,
light,
location,
meaning,
oil painting,
painting,
still life,
viewers,
viewing
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Still Life Elements
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From an interview with Doug in Still-Life in Oils by Theodora Philcox:
Excerpt from this posting:
"...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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102 Entries
26,700+ Words
95 Full-Color Illustrations (Oil paintings by the author.)
2006 - 2010
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-Doug Rugh
Labels:
hue/temperature,
interpretation,
light,
meaning,
mood,
oil painting,
optics,
painting,
saturation/chroma,
still life,
value/tone
Monday, October 16, 2006
Roses and a Stone Wall
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Excerpt from this posting:
"...Like many things that are handmade there is a charm in the way that the artisan's hand is revealed.
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This journal entry is now available as part of a compilation in ebook form:
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Epub and PDF formats
102 Entries
26,700+ Words
95 Full-Color Illustrations (Oil paintings by the author.)
2006 - 2010
More information here.
Labels:
Cape Cod,
family,
landscape,
location,
meaning,
oil painting,
painting,
personalities,
plein air,
Woods Hole
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