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.

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Minerals, Metals, and Dirt

June 6 through 30 at

Elizabeth Lofts

333 NW 9th Avenue

Portland, Oregon, Pearl District

Plaza Entrance on NW 10th

Opening Reception June 6, 6 to 9 pm

Shown by appointment after June 6

Diane Kruger

503-504-9330

A pigment project featuring the beauty of mineral and earth colors painted on metals. Silver leaf, gold leaf, copper, brass, stainless steel and aluminum glow through the paint layers to create a simmering surface like no other. Magical pigments such as lapis lazuli, Egyptian blue frit, malachite, cinnabar, tiger’s eye, azurite, amazonite, lead tin yellow, and earth colors from all over the world have been used by artists for centuries, as they are here, in this current pigment project.

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.