Leonardo and Rembrandt Stunned

View a larger image. Nobska in the Fog, 16" x 24" - oil/canvas
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"...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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"...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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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

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

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Neither Then Nor Later

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

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Embracing Museums

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"...Luckily, she was amused by my error and, giddy and stunned, I quickly found the right girlfriend still standing in front of the last painting..."

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The Color of Color

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"...our brains are used to subtracting this pervading tint from what we see before us..."

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Fog Induced

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"...Streetlights behind trees cast their limbs across thick fog like projected holograms and remind me of warm summer nights walking around a Woods Hole (add boat and fog horns for effect) transformed into an overblended monochromatic underpainting..."

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Final Rigging

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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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Camera Obscura: Light in a Dark Room

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"Girl in a Red Hat" by Vermeer

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"...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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Keen Sense of the Obvious

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"...It is a simple formula: the more one looks and studies art the more one sees..."

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Rose Colored Glasses

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"...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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Center of the Universe

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"...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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Heat in the Firehouse

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"...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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Standing in Front of a Painting

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"...artwork done with the eye doesn't get a fair viewing. We're missing the transparent layers, the brushwork and impastos, the warm and cool nuances staining the canvas or obliterating it, the carefully worked passages contrasting the broad washes. In short: we're missing a sensitivity to medium..."

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Hey, That's My View

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"...It was a photographer. He said, "I hope you don't mind." and stood right in front of me and shot my view!..."

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Tea for Three

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"...Each surface reveals the cool square daylight/warm round spotlight relationship in its own way..."

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An Audience of One

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"...Like the time when a big black crow landed on Hillary's straw hat. They both looked at each other at the same time and in the scuffle the bird flew off..."

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Diffusion and Halation

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"...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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