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.

Life and Fecundity

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Life_and_fecundity_11x12_email_oil_Life and Fecundity 11×12 Oil on Linen by Margret E. Short 2007 Painting #1 Sold

Lessons from the Low Countries

June 1 through 30, 2007

Lawrence Gallery, Portland, Oregon

Copyright Margret E. Short

Photography, Ben Reed, NW Photo and Digital, Oregon City, Oregon

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.