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.

Gifts for the Spider Woman

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Visions of the Southwest

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Gifts for the Spider Woman

By Margret E. Short, OPA, AWAM © 2012, 8×8 Oil on Panel

Lessons from the Spider Woman, a pigment project by Margret E. Short

American Women Artists, Visions of the Southwest Exhibition

Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona

November 3, 2012 through January 6, 2013

An exhibition of work by Signature and Master Signature members of American Women Artists.

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.