Excerpt from this posting:
"...The perfect palette is an improvement on the arm..."
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26,700+ Words
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.)
Showing posts with label palette. Show all posts
Showing posts with label palette. Show all posts
Monday, November 27, 2006
John Singer Sargent's Palette
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blended,
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color,
inspiration,
knife,
masters,
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methods,
museum,
oil painting,
painting,
palette,
saturation/chroma,
studio,
value/tone
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Camera Obscura: Light in a Dark Room
"Girl in a Red Hat" by Vermeer
Excerpt from this posting:
"...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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102 Entries
26,700+ Words
95 Full-Color Illustrations (Oil paintings by the author.)
2006 - 2010
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-Doug Rugh
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light,
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portrait,
realism,
saturation/chroma,
theory,
value/tone,
viewing
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Rose Colored Glasses
View a larger image. 5" x 7" oil/panel.
Excerpt from this posting:
"...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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102 Entries
26,700+ Words
95 Full-Color Illustrations (Oil paintings by the author.)
2006 - 2010
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-Doug Rugh
Labels:
Cape Cod,
Cataumet,
color,
hue/temperature,
inspiration,
interpretation,
landscape,
light,
location,
methods,
oil painting,
optics,
painting,
palette,
plein air,
saturation/chroma,
value/tone,
viewing
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Heat in the Firehouse
Excerpt from this posting:
"...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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102 Entries
26,700+ Words
95 Full-Color Illustrations (Oil paintings by the author.)
2006 - 2010
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-Doug Rugh
Labels:
Cape Cod,
color,
hue/temperature,
inspiration,
interior,
light,
location,
methods,
oil painting,
optics,
painting,
palette,
saturation/chroma,
value/tone,
viewing,
Woods Hole
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Painting with Two Colors
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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,
color,
edges,
hue/temperature,
oil painting,
paint quality,
painting,
palette,
realism,
still life,
surface,
value/tone
Sunday, October 29, 2006
A Knife, A Face and a Bit of Color
Excerpt from this posting:
"...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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102 Entries
26,700+ Words
95 Full-Color Illustrations (Oil paintings by the author.)
2006 - 2010
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Labels:
aesthetics,
color,
edges,
hue/temperature,
impression,
knife,
loose,
materials,
methods,
oil painting,
optics,
paint quality,
painting,
palette,
portrait,
saturation/chroma,
studies,
style,
value/tone
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