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.

Lessons from the Pharaoh’s Tomb, Part Two

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Lessons from the Pharaoh’s Tomb, Part Two

Cleopatra Mask 72@5 no red

 Galerie Gabrie, Pasadena, in March 2011.

More intriguing myths, Gods, Goddesses, symbols, tombs, temples and stories from Ancient Egypt featuring pigments and new paintings. With only a few exceptions, all paintings in this new series will be created using pigments used by Egyptian artisans since antiquity. These include colors such as the beautiful Egyptian Blue Frit and Red Iron Oxide.

Follow the in-depth research progress on this blog starting now.

Resulting collection of new works to be exhibited at Galerie Gabrie.

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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  1. Hi Margaret,
    I love going to the MET in NYC and seeing all the fabulous Egyptian treasures from King Tuts tomb and look forward to seeing your new work using the pigments. Congrats on your forthcoming show as well.

  2. Funny thing is the Dutch royal family are pharaoh´s too. In the sense that after their death the bodies are sort of `pickled` (I’m Dutch so don’t know the exact word in English).
    These are then put in a tombe in the crypte of the family in the famous 3-coloured church of Delft. This is not common knowledge in Holland by the way. I am not sure about it, but it looks to me like a medieval 3-stairs rocket to the stars…