Margret E. Short Fine Arts

Portland, Oregon artist Margret Short - a modern day master of 17th Century Dutch art using the chiaroscuro technique to create still life and floral paintings.

Margret Short

Safety with Pigments

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A blog reader, Sara Mast, recently posted a comment on an entry called, Perplexing Pigments, that I posted in October of 2006. The topic of this post is the safety of using pigments in the dry natural form. Sara wanted to know about my working procedures. This is something that is of great importance to me, and I use great care while handling … [Read more...] about Safety with Pigments

Widgets

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Those of you who live in Oregon are probably familiar with our local award winning Oregon Public Broadcasting program Oregon Art Beat. I have had the honor of being featured three times over the years on this very popular program. They have added a widget tool to the Art Beat web site. A widget is a portable chunk of code that allows me to share … [Read more...] about Widgets

Penelope’s Web Details

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So much of the time while I am painting lace I feel like Penelope herself. Often, many many hours will be spent carefully creating the look of the weavings on a particular passage only to scrape it away and start over. My goal is to paint, not "render" the patterns. So, I go along and paint a little detail then smudge until it doesn't look too … [Read more...] about Penelope’s Web Details