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.

Cleopatra’s Garden at OPA National

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Oil Painters of America

 

19th Annual National Exhibition
April 30 – May 30 -2010
Legacy Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
Cleopatra's Garden 28x2272@6in 
Cleopatra’s Garden

 

28×22 Oil on Linen 
 © Margret E. Short 2009, OPA. AWA
One of 200 paintings selected from 2560 entries.
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Legacy Gallery

Margret E. Short

Chiaroscuro Painting

Oil painting with the chiaroscuro technique illuminates the focus area with a strong light. All other areas are painted with less detail, lower values, and intensity of color giving a mysterious appearance. By putting one or two objects in the important focus area, a strong but simple composition will emerge. Combining these oil painting techniques with a selection of superior natural pigments and oil paints result in the beautiful and evocative quality known as Chiaroscuro Painting.

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