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.

And More!

And More!

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And more uses for those siennas. Raw sienna used here, mixed with white, lead-tin yellow, and black makes great variations of tones for this application. Painting #9 detail. … [Read more...] about And More!

Geology Burnt Sienna, 101

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Burnt sienna, also known as Caledonian brown and terra di Siena, comes in a variety of shades, depending on its source. It gets its rich dark brown coffee color from a heating process. In order to get burnt sienna, you must first heat raw sienna in a process called calcination which removes the water from the clay and turns it from a yellowish to … [Read more...] about Geology Burnt Sienna, 101

Geology Raw Sienna, 101

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Limonite clay is a main ingredient in the pigment family called sienna. Raw sienna is described as a dull brownish yellow, which in spite of its dullness, is very versatile and widely used by artists. I have used it for the shady side of yellow objects, in backgrounds, and even fleshtones. It also is a perfect color, used alone, as a shadow tone … [Read more...] about Geology Raw Sienna, 101

The Sun, the Moon, and Burnt Sienna

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Burnt Sienna is an extraordinarily versatile and useful pigment. In use since antiquity, the siennas sometimes are grouped into the "brown" category, but they are far from plain old brown. With their iron oxide ingredients, they range from rich earthy reds to foreboding darks. In earlier times, sienna was found in Siena, Italy and was … [Read more...] about The Sun, the Moon, and Burnt Sienna

From Here to Modernity

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Once upon a time, I thought a "podcast" was a clay mockup for a flower sculpture. Nowadays, it is known as a high tech method of posting and listening to a particular discussion or interview on the Internet. Alyson Stanfield, art marketing consultant, launched me from the Golden to the Modern Age practically overnight. Not only has Alyson … [Read more...] about From Here to Modernity

More Testing

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As expected, black was painfully slow to dry. In this test, we included: bone black (4 days) bone black slightly gritty (8 days with very apparent tack) black Roman earth (4 days with some tack) The drying times of the specialty colors: vermilion - 21 hours- but color rubs off slightly azurite - 22 hours lapis - 44 hours minium - 44 hours Eight … [Read more...] about More Testing