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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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ancient Egypt

Red Iron Oxide

June 6, 2009 by Margret Short

detail photograph of red paint

Red iron oxide pigment mixed with linseed oil. A detail of my most recent project painting using red iron oxide. Temple wall at Edfu showing traces of probable red iron oxide. I will be using and researching this pigment in the coming days.   … [Read more...] about Red Iron Oxide

Tagged With: ancient Egypt, colors, Edfu, Egyptians, Lessons from the Pharaoh's Tomb, painting, pigments, red iron oxide, temples

Dendera, The Temple of Hathor

May 14, 2009 by Margret Short

photograph of old greek structures

The ceiling shown in the previous entry is within this Temple of Dendera (above) which is on the west bank of the Nile in Upper Egypt. This temple has a very long history since the earliest dynasties and structures were erected throughout the various occupations. There is a birth chapel, two Roman wells, various churches, the remains of a Roman … [Read more...] about Dendera, The Temple of Hathor

Tagged With: ancient Egypt, birth chapel, colors, Dendera, Egypt, Hathor, Het Hert, Hetheru, House of Horus, Isis, Nile Upper Egypt, oracular divination, Patron of the sky and sun, pigments of ancient Egypt, Roman sanatorium, Roman well, Temple of Dendera

Shores of the Nile

May 2, 2009 by Margret Short

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Tagged With: ancient Egypt, cruise, Egyptian pigments, Nile river, painting, pigments

Ka is Watching

May 2, 2009 by Margret Short

  It is easy to imagine the pharaoh regally sitting on his throne while sailing on a felucca. In ancient Egypt the belief was that the protective spirit ka watched over the almighty ruler and all the boat's passengers. The "Regal Pharaonic Dahbia of Cheops" is the oldest Egyptain felucca image immortalized by the Great … [Read more...] about Ka is Watching

Tagged With: ancient Egypt, Cheops, Egyptian felucca, felucca, Great Pyramid of Giza, Ka, painting pigments project, Pharaoh, Regal Pharaonic Dahbia of Cheops, Solar Boat, spirit ka

The Eye of Horus

March 12, 2009 by Margret Short

A special thank you to Maria Wilson, a fellow traveler, who contributed the story of this beautiful painting done on papyrus. On the left is the god Horus. This falcon headed god is the son of Osiris, the lord of the underworld and god of the dead. Horus is the most important god for Pharaoh because pharaoh is the living incarnation of Horus on … [Read more...] about The Eye of Horus

Tagged With: ancient Egypt, Book of the Dead, Eye of Horus, Horus, Lower Egypt, Maat, Upper Egypt

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